Category: Retail Workers

 

Feb 4 2019 – Eduardo Porter – The New York Times

A small group of well-educated professionals enjoys rising wages, while most workers toil in low-wage jobs with few chances to advance.

 

Aug 28, 2018 – Kristen Houser – Futurism

Amazon officially opened its second cashier-less convenience store in the Emerald City.

 

May 23 2018 – Steve LeVine – Axios

There is barely a peep from Washington in response to a widely forecast social and economic tsunami resulting from automation, including the potential for decades of flat wages and joblessness

 

Apr 11 2018 – Steve LeVine – Axios

In January, Amazon attracted intense attention when it opened Go, its cashless convenience store in Seattle. And it’s poised to open six more of them on the U.S. West Coast.

 

Jan 24 2018 – Steve LeVine – Axios.com

Opening day at the new AmazonGo store signifies further disruption in the retail industry.

 

Nov 6 2017 – Jing Cao – Bloomberg Tech

It once took online grocer Ocado two hours to put together a box of 50 food items. Now machines can do it in five minutes.

 

Oct 6 2017 – CBInsights.com

Automation is coming after jobs, from fast food workers to accountants. This study shows which jobs are most at risk, given several different factors.

 

Aug 31 2017 – Maya Kosoff – Vanity Fair

The Oxford professor who famously predicted that automation would threaten 47 percent of the U.S. labor force says retail jobs are next.

 

Aug 25 2017 – Larry Hardesty – MIT News Office

MIT researchers have developed a system that enables small, safe, aerial drones to read RFID tags in large warehouses at a distance of several meters, while identifying the tags’ locations with an average error of about 19 centimeters. This new system could save retailers billions lost through faulty inventory records.

 

Jun 17 2017 – Claire Cain Miller – New York Times

Automated retail stores may be a thing of the future and Amazon Go shows us the way.