Closed Restaurant and Snowmobile parking

[Sled Dave 17]

The Miss Wakefield Diner on Rt 16 in Wakefield NH is closed until spring. The parking lot is closed off with a cable across the roadway. It has good food and has always been a great place to park you truck and trailer. You could ride north, south, east and west on groomed trails of the Seven Lakes Snowmobile Club. Sorry to see this. Scott and Gracie deserve an extended vacation.

[Saluda 110]

Seems their hours have been reduced over the years. We enjoy that place.

[smallengineguy 88]

Constant staffing issues forced the issue.

[Saluda 110]

Too bad, yet you still see people at the entrance to shopping centers begging.

[John Mercier 36]

It may not be that they can meet the hiring requirements.

I heard that Walmart here is seeking overnight stocking associates starting at $17.50/hr with no experience.

Managing labor is going to be the hardest thing that management will have to do over the next several years should they want to keep the doors open.

 

[Saluda 110]

Standing 4-5 hours at a whack in some real cold temps. Sure they could find something in this job climate.

[jhwentworth 307]

9 hours ago, John Mercier said:

It may not be that they can meet the hiring requirements.

I heard that Walmart here is seeking overnight stocking associates starting at $17.50/hr with no experience.

Managing labor is going to be the hardest thing that management will have to do over the next several years should they want to keep the doors open.

 

Companies are already working on replacement workers.

The attached PDF is from https://www.analyticsinsight.net/how-robotics-is-changing-the-service-industry/

As for Walmart, they have the checkout process pretty well automated for most customers, and Amazon is moving toward automated warehouses. This was happening before COVID, but it's moving faster now. Here's a report from the Sloan School/MIT about the effect of robots on human employment: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/a-new-study-measures-actual-impact-robots-jobs-its-significant 

How Robotics is Changing The Service Industry - Reader Mode.pdf

[ICG 7]

On 12/4/2021 at 10:25 AM, Saluda said:

Too bad, yet you still see people at the entrance to shopping centers begging.

Zoom out . . . .

You can't see the forest for the trees . . .

1). Pan Handling IS a business enterprise.

2). The sham starts with them getting a minimalist - just to put there name on the books.

3).  Then they collect. Food Stamps, Welfare, etc .... this is 100% profit.

Working shifts Pan Handling during  commuter hour pays WAY more than working at Friendly's Ice-cream. job (2).

Edited December 5, 2021 by ICG
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[John Mercier 36]

Shouldn't. Fewer people are carrying cash, and it would look a bit shady if a pan handler had a mobile phone set up with a scanner and app for the debit card transfer.

 

[ICG 7]

Shady,  NO... . Obama gave his recipients cellphones when he got in office.

Should n't be to hard to use camera as a barcode reader and learn to do electronic transfers.

 

 

[John Mercier 36]

And what kind of ignorant would supply their debit card to that?

 

[ICG 7]

10 hours ago, John Mercier said:

And what kind of ignorant would supply their debit card to that?

 

SHEEPLE ....they already give . . .     

They use a debit card for a pack of gum . . .

SHEEPLE are already indoctrinated to use a credit card.

SHEEPLE  the world's full of them . . 

 

[John Mercier 36]

A debit card cost them nothing, and the credit card when paid off monthly can be sound budgetary finance.

But you don't borrow money on a credit card, and you don't just hand out your debit card.

https://www.fistscore.com/do/home

 

 

 

 

[jhwentworth 307]

When someone breaks out the "sheeple" label, well, you're pretty much in political country. Probably not a great idea to go this way with a site that's focused on a non-political agenda.

[John Mercier 36]

I felt he was trying to give financial advice. Not good advice, but advice none the less.

 

[jhwentworth 307]

10 minutes ago, John Mercier said:

I felt he was trying to give financial advice. Not good advice, but advice none the less.

 

Maybe, but I've seen too many sites get buried under political arguments. Is there such a thing as a Republican or Democrat snowmobile trail?

[ICG 7]

People are  creatures of habit.....  repetitively we do tasks, as if on Autopilot.

Sympathetically one may be  compelled to offer assistance. driven  by emotions of the moment,   which wouldn 't be offered during a busy stressful moment.

Political?   No, psychology in motion

 

 

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[xklipze 0]

On 12/5/2021 at 1:01 PM, John Mercier said:

Shouldn't. Fewer people are carrying cash, and it would look a bit shady if a pan handler had a mobile phone set up with a scanner and app for the debit card transfer.

 

Don't give these losers any ideas

 

[xklipze 0]

On 12/7/2021 at 0:01 AM, John Mercier said:

And what kind of ignorant would supply their debit card to that?

 

They take jewlery and bitcoin now too

[John Mercier 36]

Pretty dumb statement, since landowners are reading your sentiments.

 

[Sled Dave 17]

I started this topic to tell sled riders a good restaurant and good parking area for sledders is closed. How & Why did it turn into bad mouthing people and debit/credit cards.

[Saluda 110]

On 1/17/2022 at 7:07 PM, Sled Dave said:

I started this topic to tell sled riders a good restaurant and good parking area for sledders is closed. How & Why did it turn into bad mouthing people and debit/credit cards.

 I'll take some of the blame.

Edited January 22, 2022 by Saluda

[John Mercier 36]

On 1/17/2022 at 7:07 PM, Sled Dave said:

I started this topic to tell sled riders a good restaurant and good parking area for sledders is closed. How & Why did it turn into bad mouthing people and debit/credit cards.

Some take it personal that the owners of a property might just need a well deserved break. I am sure their intent was not to close the restaurant to send a message to anyone... just needed a rest.