Alternative headline: eyeglass manufacturing still onshore. Not discussed: where are the machines made, where are they supported from and where is the actual p

Alternative headline: eyeglass manufacturing still onshore. Not discussed: where are the machines made, where are they supported from and where is the actual production expertise? When lessons are learnt about manufacturing where does that wisdom accumulate? My opinion (just an opinion) is that these factors matter a lot more at a national level than whether people or robots end up shaping a lens. Alternative headline 2: a small number of jobs kept onshore by robots, most walmart manufacturing still overseas. Seems to me like walmart is supporting workers by investing in manufacturing tech to keep them competitive with offshoring. From this perspective, the article has an unwarranted negative spin. To be fair, in a more supportive company the workers would probably be retrained rather than shed. It looks like walmart are encouraging internal placements for them but it can be hard to tell how sincere such efforts really are.