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Robots are good at counting and recording, so they are increasingly being used in stores and warehouses to keep track of the stock on hand. As part of Wal-mart’s competition with Amazon, the store chain is utilizing Amazon’s technology strategy by moving forward with automation to up its e-commerce game. Naturally, the efficiency and cost-savings […] October 29th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, inventory, job displacement, retail, robot, Wal-Mart, Walmart, warehouse |  Email This Post |  Print This Post In St. Louis, a midwestern grocery chain is making news with its test run of an inventory-taking robot, called Tally by its manufacturer. The machine is not unrelated to the LoweBot-type machine that guides customers to desired items in the store which the robot has filed in its database of what and where. The Tally […] July 28th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon robots, automation, inventory, job displacement, job loss, retail, robots, smart machines, Tally robot, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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