The End of Grocery Stores - Walmart Changing Everything

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Walmart, Target, Costco, and others are making major changes to self-checkout rules, which is already leading to these new dark stores and is going to change the way you shop forever. I'm going to give you all the details here right now as we are live here on the It's Jimmy Show on YouTube. Let me know where you're tuning in from, your city, state, or even your country, and if you can hear me and see me. All right, take a look here. Okay, first up, Walmart, Target, and Costco are axing getting rid of more selfch checkckouts as states and New York City push limits. In fact, listen to this.

[00:00:43]>> California lawmakers are considering a new bill that could force stores to close their selfch checkout lanes unless they meet certain conditions. Those conditions include selfch checkckouts are limited to 10 items or less, upping the number of employees monitoring the stations to one employee per two selfservice stations, and customers are prohibited from purchasing certain items. Senate Bill 1446 aims to boost employment and cut down on thefts.

[00:01:12]>> Now, this isn't just in California. In fact, Walmart is already testing taking out selfch checkout completely in some stores and significantly reducing it in others. This comes here for a couple different reasons. Number one is that theft is occurring at selfch checkckout in wild rates. And obviously if you have somebody checking you out, it's a lot more difficult to steal at the cash register than if you're just checking it out yourself and oops, you forgot to scan a couple items or scanned it in as the wrong item and all sorts of things like that which Walmart is seen by the you know huge truckload with you know Walmart and Amazon the two biggest employers in the United States. You know, that's a huge number when it extrapolates over thousands and thousands of stores across the entire United States. The other reason here is that a lot of people have complained about selfch checkckout. You know, they don't want to go and have a full cart of groceries and then have to check it out and bag it themselves when for years and years and years people were just used to having an employee there or even two employees there. one employee to ring out your order, check you out, and another employee to bag it. So, one to two employees would be there kind of doing that for you. And now, a lot of people, I've even seen some comments in the comment section of people saying, "I feel like an employee of Walmart, they're making me ring it out and they're making me bag it." So, they're actually getting rid of selfch checkouts in some capacity as they test this across different stores because it actually makes the customer experience better cuz people were tired of checking it out themselves and may actually go to a local grocery store or something different that had somebody there to do that whole part for you. Okay? I mean, we all know that kind of grocery shopping takes forever. If you got to get a whole, you know, cart full of groceries, you could be there for a couple hours and it could literally like, you know, dent your whole day. And this is also another reason why it's leading to dark stores.

[00:03:32]Take a look here. Take a look at these headlines. Walmart is opening new stores, but not to the public. Here's why. and Walmart's new dark stores risk changing selfch checkckout lines and limits. And this is going to be a serious change if we gravitate more towards this. And this is actually what our family does already. We really don't go grocery shopping in the store. It just takes too long. I don't have an extra two to three hours to drive there, pick out everything, a whole car full of stuff, drive back, unload it, all that stuff. And my wife actually orders her everything she wants on the Walmart app.

[00:04:22]Okay. Then Walmart has a personal shopper, basically your own personal shopper, go and pick out everything for you at the grocery store. And then they have somebody deliver it to you. and you just have to pay. It's like a basically like an Amazon Prime membership but a Walmart uh membership and you can tip if you want to to the driver. Okay, this saves us hours of time for shopping. It's basically like the Amazon of grocery stores. Okay, and think about how convenient those are. You literally go on Amazon, you pick out whatever you're looking for, which sometimes, you know, back in the old days, you'd have to go to multiple stores sometimes to find something specific. Right now, you just go on Amazon, pick out what you want, and they ship it, and you literally get it the next day or whenever you get it. Right? Well, you can do that with groceries now. And we've been doing it at Walmart for a while. And it's awesome. It just feels like, you know, something the Hilton's would have, you know, that the Uber Uber Rich have a personal assistant go to the store for you and pick out all your groceries and then deliver them to you.

[00:05:34]That's basically what it does. Okay? And the cost increase is very minimal. In fact, you don't have to spend gas to go there to drive there, you know, all that stuff. And it's actually pretty awesome.

[00:05:48]Okay. Uh it saves us a bunch of time.

[00:05:50]And this is just what we do. But this is also the change of what is going forward. We've seen Amazon blow up to be the largest employer and the one of the largest companies here in the entire United States. Now that's happening in grocery. These companies are realizing that if they don't need retail stores as much and you can go online, go on the app, order everything you want. And a lot of times after you've already ordered once, they know all the stuff you want. So it's like, "Here's suggest here's your suggestions based on your last order. Yeah, I want that that that that that that that, you know, and ship it to me." And okay, it'll be here tomorrow between 4 and 6, you know, and it's it's really great.

[00:06:36]However, this could lead to grocery stores actually shutting down and that's a kind of a concern for the people that don't shop that way or the people that, you know, want to just pop into a grocery store or what. But we've seen Amazon kind of decimate a lot of other companies because they have just grown so big and taken so much of the market share. They've put a lot of other companies out of business. This could happen with the grocery store industry as well because if people say, "Hey, just, you know, pick out all the food for me. I'll tell you what I want and ship it to me and I don't even have to leave my home." This is actually would be good for a lot of elderly people as well. And this is looking like it's going to be the way of the future next.

[00:07:25]Now, I'm going to get some questions here on, you know, what happens when they send you the bananas and they're not ripe or something that's out of date. They picked out a can that's out of date, you know, uh or they give me the wrong item, any anything like it happens occasionally. Um, and honestly, my wife just goes on the app and tells them she handles that part, so yeah, I don't know the exact process, but she just goes on the app and requests a refund for that item and they give it to her.

[00:07:55]It's really that easy. And uh honestly, we've had a couple times where I remember one time they delivered a like a 12-pack of beer to us, and I didn't even order that. I got it for free. I'm not really a beer drinker, but use it at parties and stuff like that. Um but there's been a lot of times where we've actually gotten some free items that they put in there by accident, and it it was what it was, right? So, this is going to be the new way of grocery shopping. It's already happening. We've been doing this for a year or two, but it's becoming more and more mainstream.

[00:08:31]and Walmart and these other companies, Target, Costco, and others are pushing more to have people just not even come into the store, not even take an employees time there, not do that whole rigomearroll where you're in the grocery store for an hour or two, and literally just order it online and they'll ship it to you. And I know a lot of people think, "Oh, this is so scary when it comes to eggs and when it comes to milk and other stuff, but when you kind of get used to it, at least for us, it's been pretty amazing because, hey, here's my grocery list. I put it in the app. My wife puts it in the app at literally, you know, 10 o'clock at night or whenever and the next day it arrives and it's actually pretty cool. But this is going to change shopping just like the way selfch checkouts changed shopping and Amazon changed shopping.

[00:09:33]Okay. So, we're starting to see more and more, you know, gravitation towards these order online, ship it to you type of businesses. And this could put grocery stores out of business. In fact, it probably will put some grocery stores out of business. Now, probably not all of them, but we're starting to already see a dramatic change here. And well, you guys can let me know your thoughts on this because AI and robots and stuff are taking over. When you go to an Amazon warehouse, they literally have robots that go and pick out your order.

[00:10:10]If you ordered a pair of shoes, it literally knows where they're stored and it goes and picks them out and the robot just takes it, puts it in the transport thing and moves it to the shipping conveyor belt where they then AI automatically put on the shipping label.

[00:10:29]And sometimes a person doesn't even have to touch it. Well, now grocery stores is moving that way. So imagine if you want green grapes. It goes and bag buys the picks up the bag of green grapes and just puts it in the cart and then goes on to the next. Right now they have, you know, personal shoppers doing it.

[00:10:46]Basically Walmart employees doing it.

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