Robots take retail jobs

July 19, 2017

Retailers are increasingly turning to automation to reduce costs across their operations. One example is Walmart’s decision to replace human workers who counted cash and tracked the books at individual stores with a machine that does the same job while making digital deposits at banks. Workers displaced by the Cash360 machine were mostly placed in other jobs by the retailer, which operates 4,700 stores in the U.S

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Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.