The advice part of a storekeeper's job is the easy one to automate. If we get rid of all the manual labor that humans do, why wouldn't we move the advice-giver

The advice part of a storekeeper's job is the easy one to automate. If we get rid of all the manual labor that humans do, why wouldn't we move the advice-givers to remote offices and improve their utilization? A call center to tell you where the milk is or which wine goes with your recipe might sound bad, but consider that you'd never wait another second to talk to a clerk, and everything would get even cheaper as more and more of the basic questions for the call center get moved onto intelligent bots.