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In November of 2017 it was reported that Walmart was trying out floor-scrubber robots in a few of its stores. That testing must have gone well because now the machines are part of a company decision to use technology “to help keep costs in check.” Walmart’s robot floor cleaner scrubs and polishes all by itself […] March 20th, 2019 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, floor cleaner, immigrant, immigration, janitor, low skilled, retail, robot, technology, Walmart |  Email This Post |  Print This Post In 2015, Martin Ford wrote the book Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, a work that got a lot of attention because of its detailed warnings about an economy totally transformed by automation. Big tech, business and the general public continue to be interested in what Ford has to […] September 6th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, job displacement, Martin Ford, retail, Rise of the Robots, robot, technology | Email This Post | Print This Post In the retail world, there’s an attempt being made to regain its market share by following the lead of Amazon with its use of technology. The major goal is saving the store as a place where people go and shop, rather than ordering everything online for delivery. Below, the Amazon Go store offers a modern […] April 3rd, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon Go, automation, immigration, retail, retail job loss, robot, technological unemployment, technology | Email This Post | Print This Post Stores are certainly suffering since Amazon brought its robot battalions onto the retail field. The Kiva robots are an integral and necessary part of the millions of products that Jeff Bezos sells online and quickly ships to customers. Amazon purchased the Kiva robots in 2012 for $775 million; before that, human workers pushed carts around […] December 6th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon, Amazon Picking Challenge, automation, Jeff Bezos, job displacement, jobs, Kiva robots, Obama amnesty, retail, smart machines | Email This Post | Print This Post 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 A recent Wall Street Journal piece framed its robot-replacing-human story by focusing on one employee who loses her job counting cash, but is moved to a greeter position at the same wage. Since the unnamed woman is 55, her gig as human greeter will likely go to a robot when she retires, if not before, […] July 22nd, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, cashier jobs, job displacement, President Trump, retail, robot, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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