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Showing Original Post only (View all)Amazon on Monday unveiled the latest plan to automate American workers out of existence [View all]
A futuristic grocery store without any cashiers.
The company wants to open more than 2,000 brick-and-mortar grocery stores, compared with about 2,800 operated by The Kroger Co., now the nations largest full-service grocery retailer.
Amazons plans mark its latest push into the $800 billion-a-year grocery business, following its AmazonFresh delivery service that began expanding across the country in 2013 and arrived in Brooklyn in late 2014.
It also threatens countless jobs at grocery stores, which are the leading employers of cashiers and had 856,850 on their payrolls in May 2015, according to the latest figures from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Britt Beamer, president of Americas Research Group, a consumer-behavior research and consulting firm, estimated that Amazons cutting-edge technology had the potential to wipe out 75 percent of typical grocery-store staff.
Itll be a big job-killer, Beamer said. Itll eliminate the cashier, itll get rid of the baggers, itll eliminate the stock clerks. This could be big.
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http://nypost.com/2016/12/05/amazons-new-grocery-store-wont-have-any-checkout-lines/
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