have changed a lot, and for kids like my younger self, not for the
better. Amazon, good or bad, and the other innovators we worship are
making it the best of times for the remarkable, and the worst for the
unremarkable.
There will be grocery stores, and box boys, just fewer of them. Like
the rest of retail, grocery will bifurcate into “scale” stores with robots
giving you 90 percent of a great store for 60 percent of the price, using
robotics, cheap capital, software, and voice. These will be stores where
the employees are experts and serve the wealthy.
“Retail Trade.” DATAUSA.
This is our current retail ecosystem. How many of these jobs are
likely going to be replaced by more efficient, cost-effective robots? Ask
Amazon.