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> Ever stopped at one of those self-checkout registers at the grocery store that didn't exist in your childhood and wondered what happened to the cashier who us
by astrange 3y ago
> Ever stopped at one of those self-checkout registers at the grocery store that didn't exist in your childhood and wondered what happened to the cashier who used to be there?
They're still there, they're restocking shelves.
Similarly, the invention of ATM machines increased the number of bank tellers.
- nvm0n2 3y agoMy local supermarket normally seems to be staffed by maybe two or three people total. They stock shelves until someone needs them to fix the machines, do an age check or temporarily use the old checkout line. I remember supermarkets of that size used to have several people stacking shelves and then the same number again on the tills. So I think it has reduced the number of those jobs.