Forget Coal, the Robots Are Really Coming For the Retail Jobs

Forget Coal, the Robots Are Really Coming For the Retail Jobs

IDFK303/Getty Images President Trump has indicated that retaining and restoring jobs in manufacturing and coal is a top priority for his administration. Automation is the biggest threat to those industries — but mining and manufacturing aren’t the only sectors under siege from the robots.

In fact, retail workers could be among the hardest hit by automation in the coming decade. Up to 47 percent of current retail workers could be replaced by machines over the course of the next 10 years, according to the results of an extensive study released last month. As many as 7.5 million workers could lose […]

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