Where_r_my_Keys
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The beauty of all the states and the federal government's push to raise the minimum wage is that it is causing a boom in the robotics industry. Even those companies who manufacture self-checkout equipment are seeing a boom in sales. Walmart and Home Depot among others are going more and more toward self checkout in lieu of hiring and employing humans on their cash registers. Walmarrt, Home Depot, and others are also requiring their vendors to stock their own goods within their stores cutting the numbers of employees previously required to perform stocking chores. Robots are being utilized more than ever before in warehouses to move stock around. Even some fast food businesses are exploring ways to automate. Those folks at the lowest end of the economic rung because of education and training will see their prospects of employment even further diminished because of these demands for higher wages for the unskilled.
The computers that scan prices and sum totals are literally smarter than most of the human beings that are presently doing the job.
It's not even close.
I can't remember the last time I used a person to check out at Home Depot. Why would I subject myself to watching an idiot do something slower than I can do it?