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July 23, 2018

News Article

The Street
Oscar Gonzalez
July 2018

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The robot apocalypse might start at the store.

Big-box retailers and grocery stores began their move to automation with the inclusion of self-checkout lanes that first appeared back in 1992 at a Price Chopper supermarket in New York. Recently, major retailers began researching other tasks that could be done by a robot instead of a human, especially menial tasks such as checking price tags, seeing what needs to be restocked and even guiding customers to the items they want. 

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