> I don't know that advancing technology is the credible threat here The thing most people don't realize is that the robots in question aren't really even taki

> I don't know that advancing technology is the credible threat here The thing most people don't realize is that the robots in question aren't really even taking jobs that existed prior to the ecommerce model, and the work the robots are doing used to be handled by the consumer. Details: 1-The robots are taking over the job of moving goods from the storage shelf to the packer. 2-This is pure "walking" time when humans do it, 10 miles per day in a typical DC, not value add. 3-Before ecommerce, with brick and mortar, the goods were picked in bulk and shipped to stores and placed on the racks, and the consumer was the person that walked to get the item and bring it to the packer (cashier). Some of the walking was done in the DC, but not nearly to the same extent. 4-There are multiple different ways to solve this problem of humans walking all over the DC to pick one+two piece orders in a way that is efficient. "Robots" in the form of moving shelves (Amazon), or conveyors+sorters with bulk pick then sort by order, or etc.