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Taking inventory is the equivalent of month end close in accounting, eg do your receipts match your accounts, and is a very tedious process that usually require

Taking inventory is the equivalent of month end close in accounting, eg do your receipts match your accounts, and is a very tedious process that usually requires a lot of manpower to do in a very short timeframe (just like accounting!). Instead of having a bunch of staff wandering the aisles and scanning SKU's for hours after the store closes, I presume the advantage is the robot and its handler can do the job by themselves in less time for much less cost in overtime.

cableshaft 6y ago
Yeah, I've worked for retail and restaurants during taking Inventory, it's a pain in the butt and never a fun time, and it's more of a special circumstance and not something that would really worry me about my job if I still worked retail having gone through the process. At the place I worked they didn't really hire anybody extra for it to begin with, it was just an annoying extra responsibility you had to do once every 2-3 months. That being said this could just be the precursor to even more employee reducing measures, so it could still be a bit worrying for the future, but just not having to deal with inventory I would think would be a relief as an employee.