The ratio of robots to workers in Amazon warehouses increased 50% in 2016.

Amazon employs enough robots to fill Madison Square Garden twice.

People making less than $20 an hour now have an 83% chance of being replaced by automation.

With the announcement of Amazon Go retailers are now laser-focussed on eliminating the check-out process.

2.6% of the US workforce are employed as cashiers. (That is 3.5m people, the same number of primary and secondary school teachers in the US.)

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