Walmart used to be open 24 hours, and I would often hit it in the middle of the night, coming home after a late night work event (common for my business).
There were still a lot of people, just not customers. Late at night, the aisles fill with stacks of boxes, and there is an army of workers stocking shelves. Those people will all be replaced by robots within a decade, maybe even half that time.
Anyway, after Covid, they adopted normal hours, and aren’t open all night anymore. There are a few drugstores that are open 24 hours, and convenience stores as well.
For #2 I bet you anything the executives will make deals with politicians. It will be sold as kind of a “too big to fail” thing. Because they provide a service to the community.
Walmart used to be open 24 hours, and I would often hit it in the middle of the night, coming home after a late night work event (common for my business).
There were still a lot of people, just not customers. Late at night, the aisles fill with stacks of boxes, and there is an army of workers stocking shelves. Those people will all be replaced by robots within a decade, maybe even half that time.
Anyway, after Covid, they adopted normal hours, and aren’t open all night anymore. There are a few drugstores that are open 24 hours, and convenience stores as well.
I don’t think Walmart will be replacing their staff with robots.
One products and store messes are simply so very un-uniform it’s actually hard to automate.
Two the government won’t subsidize the robots like they do the workers.
They can solve #1 with AI.
For #2 I bet you anything the executives will make deals with politicians. It will be sold as kind of a “too big to fail” thing. Because they provide a service to the community.