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72 years after [Clarence Saunders] attempted to patent his idea, advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies are making the dream of a worker-free store a reality. And American cashiers may soon be checking out.
A recent analysis by Cornerstone Capital Group suggests that 7.5m retail jobs – the most common type of job in the country – are at "high risk of computerization", with the 3.5m cashiers likely to be particularly hard hit.
Another report, by McKinsey, suggests that a new generation of high-tech grocery stores that automatically charge customers for the goods they take – no check-out required – and use robots for inventory and stocking could reduce the number of labor hours needed by nearly two-thirds. It all translates into millions of Americans' jobs under threat.
(Score: 2, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday August 17 2017, @03:44PM (13 children)
Dude, you're behind the times. I dunno about aristarchus but EF has a pretty fair job last I heard. As do most of our named trolls.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Funny) by EvilSS on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:23PM (2 children)
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:28PM
Bull milker, I would guess. Or test subject for various radioisotopes.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Touché) by JNCF on Thursday August 17 2017, @05:48PM
A beautiful carny.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:25PM (2 children)
Hell, I hear one of our named trolls [soylentnews.org] is a President of the United States :D
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday August 17 2017, @04:56PM (1 child)
So when will that job be automated as well? I mean, apparently you don't need too much intelligence for it, so I'm sure AI research will catch up soon.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by Farmer Tim on Thursday August 17 2017, @09:47PM
Came for the news, stayed for the soap opera.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday August 17 2017, @05:40PM (5 children)
It's amazing how everyone on the internet has a great job!
Must be all those 'leet skills used to post crap on websites they didn't build.
(Score: 2) by WillR on Thursday August 17 2017, @06:25PM
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 17 2017, @06:46PM (3 children)
Hey, I actually do have a pretty decent job and a pretty good life. Maybe not all trolls do, but I do. And I"m sure there are other trolls who do okay.
I don't build a "web site", but a "web application", which is not of the "social media" variety.
I don't care to go through a self check out line. I don't mind waiting (a reasonable time) in a check out line if I don't have to scan, bag and load everything in the cart. Especially heavier items. I'd rather put money in the local economy. But stores that force me to self check out are really just going to force me over to Amazon for more and more of what I buy.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @07:15PM (2 children)
Trolls get good jobs by trolling their way into jobs. The name of the game is emotional manipulation. Shitposting is practice for the kind of persuasive shitspeak they use to scam their way into the good life.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by VLM on Thursday August 17 2017, @07:49PM (1 child)
Not bad AC, but there's more to it. Better jobs usually means more time and ability for corporate bullshit. Some of my best shitposting is inspired by corporate bullshit I've heard at work. I could fill binders full of shitposts inspired from the comedy show that was diversity training class. I've heard some amazing stuff at company wide "motivational" meetings too, fertilizer content so high its liquid miracle grow for shitposting. There's probably an age aspect too, I've probably heard 30 times as much corporate BS as a 23 year old recent grad, for obvious reasons, so I have 30 times the shitposting power, just like a guy who's been lifting at the gym for 30 months should be able to outlift a guy who started lifting a month ago, all things being equal, as they usually aren't, LOL. To paraphrase the classic lifting phrase, "Dude do you even shitpost?" I don't think its possible to live the corporate life for even a decade without the result of being able to shitpost with the best on 4chan or here.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 18 2017, @02:43PM
I have decades of experience on that hypothetical (or not) 23 year old recent grad you speak of.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JNCF on Thursday August 17 2017, @05:45PM
aristarchus strikes me as an ivory tower dweller, but that's just inference and assumption. I believe I've seen him argue that academia is a nobler pursuit than industry. My memory, as always, may be flawed.