Boyd Casinos Roll Out TITO Voucher Tech at Table Games

From Vital Vegas 

https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/boyd-casinos-roll-out-tito-voucher-tech-at-table-games/?fbclid=IwAR0SBpkV3i6KczeNFuWlR9m7BMfySHzOMt8hFrXAWiqgbyZ1d-rR4tEFVR0_aem_ASrBNsbjF3V2klD9P4h1odySooYFkQJSca5T_0WZqEusgtfZS9n_OIKzEnUmo_kZxSY

I like aspects of this from a player standpoint, at least for those of us that play both tables and machines. It's a time-saving convenience on occasion. By the same token , the casinos benefit as well; they're unable to take in revenue when customers are standing in line to cash in chips. It makes em mad when they can't reap the benefits of applicable house edges every possible second.

Thanks for sharing.

Even on an insanely busy Saturday night, sometimes there are only one or two cashiers on duty. I often think to myself, "Fifty dealers and a thousand slots to take your money, and two people to give it back." Sure shows the ratio of winners to losers!

So Boyd of Paradise has thought up a way to improve rotten customer service by replacing humans with machines. I predict that robot maids, like Rosie on the Jetsons, are next.

     What you are seeing here with Boyd (and others like Stations) is the movement away from employing real people and putting in kiosks, switching to TITO's, etc., in order to generate more profit from the steady stream of young visitors who have no respect for their money. Dealerless craps and blackjack, check-in/out kiosks, attendant-less paid parking garages, the tracking at bars of players to determine who gets "free" drinks, player accounts which consolidate player winnings/losses when one inserts a card into a card reader (Stations) - the list continues to grow. Expect more as time goes on - Vegas will one day be completely controlled/run by programmed computers with little human interaction with casino employees - and all the while selling these changes to the masses as being a "good thing". 

Surely.  It's ultimately about gross casino revenues...fewer live human employees, labor issues, less customer service interaction and associated expenses. The dolled up digital downslope to hell progresses ; at least line waits for applicable players might be shortened a bit.

But you have to consider that as little human interaction as possible is the way that Generation Whatever has fun now. Put ten teenagers in a room and they won't even talk to each other--all of them will whip out their dumbphones and start frantically thumbing away. So a Vegas trip that consists solely of interacting with various robots might be very appealing to them.

What I'd like to see is a movement toward "digitizing" those human customer service interactions that are truly annoying and time-consuming. Frankly, standing in line at the cashier is one of them. I always seem to get there when there's one cashier on duty, and the guy in front of me is trying to negotiate a $5,000 cashier's check from the Royal Bank of Burkina Faso. A properly programmed bot would just shoot him.

I have to acknowledge that whatever floats my generation's boat is going to die out in the fullness of time. I think that's why conservatives are always so angry. Their world's changing, they don't like it one bit, and they're naturally resistant to change anyway. And they're helpless to stop it, so they rage and bloviate.

Parenthetically--I've been worrried that this "live solely in the digital world" trend would lead to less concern for the environment and less enjoyment of the outdoors. But national parks are seeing record visitation.

That's right regarding the generational differences. But I'm in the upper age demographic that appreciates a little human interaction at hotel check-in, cashiers cage, restaurants and the like..generally due to plain old life-long habit. Granted, some human interactions at these locations can of course be horrendous on occasion as well. We've all experienced those as well.

I'm not raging about it..know it's inevitable and that the situation already is the way it is and will only be enhanced..but I don't have to like it as I  learn to gradually accept it.  Plus, it's my money to spend as I see fit..even as I continually enter an ever-deepening technobilly digital fog with each passing day. I fully admit this is one change I completely dislike...some aspects of the Stone Age aren't all bad for some of us.  But I expect I'll adjust with more time..eg I know I'll have to or alternatively / metaphorically just go and chop all the  wood by hand.

IMO, a large segment of the younger generations are emotionally, psychologically, neurologically, and essentially physically adhered to their phones. My own kids and grandkids are..and I can't just dispose of them. Even many same-age acquaintances are addicted.   I just ponder what those groups are giving up while incessantly  glued to a screen. IMO, they're sacrificing a myriad of natural potential influences. I get general business costs and efficiencies are respectively reduced and increased with the tech craze. I'll come around to all the inevitabilities with time..and in small increments...probably.

Further, I still refuse to communicate via text messaging; that's how afflicted I am. It pisses my family members off..just my way of rebellious resistance to their techno cult *l*. *shrug*

Text messaging can be pretty damn convenient and useful in certain situations. Consider that it's not really that different from, say, leaving a Post-it note on someone's desk. I don't like having prolonged conversations via that medium, though.

Yeah, because one can never know who's capturing your personal info.