Technology is a great thing. However there comes a time when technology seems to help business owners more than the workers. I've been with Walmart for 30 years. I can remember how difficult it was before new tools and processes. There has been a reduction in staff through the years as technology made their jobs no longer necessary. I have seen a store go from over 300 associates to under 150. Technology made many jobs easier. But in a small community where Walmart is the main work place, technology can be the enemy. A store I know is going from 20 registers to 5. The rest will be self checkout. Use to cashier was the safest place to be. After all you have to have cashiers, right? Wrong. No job is safe anymore. In the long run technology will be the down fall of some great companies. Not just Walmart. But others as well. The desire for more profit will be too strong. And more job losses will help with their profits. But when the small communities start to feel the effects of job losses, and people are forced to seek employment elsewhere,some people will move to where jobs are. Stores in these communities will feel it. And profits will go down due to loss of sales. Then these stores that were once highly profitable will ultimately meet their doom and be closed, thanks to technology.
Reposted from @Z1bfQ5v-ytp . A good post that I found on a different thread.