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Originally Posted by elphenor
there's almost no reason why my job and my cashier's jobs shouldn't already be automated
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It takes an initial investment, but eventually they will be.
I mean you will still need some cashiers etc. Even self check out requires a cashier. But one cashier can handle like 10 self check out registers. So you would need fewer of them. Not to mention that online shopping is also putting an increasingly sizable dent in the retail market.
I've worked a lot of manufacturing and wharehouse jobs and have seen it first hand. The various stages of automation. Some places are behind others in terms of their automation, just based on how old their equipment is.
One boss even told me straight up, when being asked about why they don't replace the equipment on the line which was frequently malfunctioning, that when ever they did get around to updating it, half the people working there would be rendered redundant.