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<\/div>Clean Many Robots<\/h2>
Walmart is about to bring worker robots to a third of its stores.<\/p>
Of the corporation’s 4,600 U.S. locations, 1,500 are about to start using floor-cleaning custodial robots and 300 will use the bots to spot empty shelves, according to The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>. It’s a move that could save human employees a lot of time, but also one that signals that Walmart considers sees human employees<\/a> and their salaries as circumventable expenses.<\/p> “With automation, we are able to take away some of the tasks that associates don’t enjoy doing,” Mark Propes, a Walmart operations director, told the WSJ<\/em>. “At the same time, we continue to open up new jobs in other things in the store.”<\/p> Those other jobs are likely related to e-commerce, WSJ<\/em> reports, as Walmart plans to pivot to more online sales in an attempt to challenge Amazon<\/a>.<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Walmart Is Rolling Out the Robots<\/a> [The Wall Street Journal<\/em>]<\/p> More on Walmart:<\/strong> Walmart Is About to Deploy Hundreds of Robot Janitors<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Walmart Is Rolling Out Floor-Cleaning Robots in 1,500 Stores<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Originally posted here: Clean Many Robots Walmart is about to bring worker robots to a third of its stores. Of the corporation\u2019s 4,600 U.S. locations, 1,500 are about to start using floor-cleaning custodial robots and 300 will use the bots to spot empty shelves, according to The Wall Street Journal . Continue reading Time To Pivot<\/h2>
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