SEATTLE — To see what it is like inside stores where sensors and artificial intelligence have replaced cashiers, shoppers have to trek to Amazon Go, the internet retailer’s experimental convenience shop in downtown Seattle.

西雅圖——想看看用傳感器和人工智能取代了收銀員的商店里是什么樣的，購物者必須前往網(wǎng)絡(luò)零售商亞馬遜(Amazon)在西雅圖市中心開設(shè)的試驗性無人便利商店亞馬遜 Go。

Soon, though, more technology-driven businesses like Amazon Go may be coming to them.

不過，更多像這樣由科技驅(qū)動的商店很快就會來到購物者身邊。

A global race to automate stores is underway among several of the world’s top retailers and small tech startups, which are motivated to shave labor costs and minimize shoppers’ frustrations, like waiting for cashiers. They are also trying to prevent Amazon from dominating the physical retail world as it does online shopping.

一些世界最頂級的零售商和小型科技初創(chuàng)公司正在全球范圍內(nèi)進(jìn)行自動化商店的競爭，這些初創(chuàng)公司希望削減勞動成本，把購物者的不滿——例如排隊結(jié)賬——降到最低。它們還在試圖阻止亞馬遜像控制網(wǎng)絡(luò)購物一樣掌控實體零售市場。

Companies are testing robots that help keep shelves stocked, as well as apps that let shoppers ring up items with a smartphone. High-tech systems like the one used by Amazon Go completely automate the checkout process. China, which has its own ambitious e-commerce companies, is emerging as an especially fertile place for these retail experiments.

這些公司正在測試填充貨架的機(jī)器人，以及讓購物者通過智能手機(jī)錄入商品的應(yīng)用。包括亞馬遜 Go這樣的高科技系統(tǒng)會把顧客結(jié)賬的過程完全自動化。擁有眾多志向遠(yuǎn)大的電商公司的中國，尤其成了進(jìn)行這些零售實驗的沃土。

If they succeed, these new technologies could add further uncertainty to the retail workforce, which is already in flux because of the growth of online shopping. An analysis last year by the World Economic Forum said 30-50 percent of the world’s retail jobs could be at risk once technologies like automated checkout were fully embraced.

如果它們?nèi)〉贸晒Γ@些新技術(shù)可能會進(jìn)一步增加零售業(yè)勞動力市場的不確定性，這個市場已經(jīng)因為網(wǎng)絡(luò)購物的增長變得不穩(wěn)定。世界經(jīng)濟(jì)論壇(World Economic Forum)去年的一項分析指出，一旦像自動結(jié)賬這樣的技術(shù)完全被接受，全球30％-50％的零售業(yè)工作可能面臨消失的風(fēng)險。

In addition, the efforts have raised concerns among privacy researchers because of the mounds of data that retailers will be able to gather about shopper behavior as they digitize their locations. Inside Amazon Go, for instance, the cameras never lose sight of a customer once he or she enters the shop.

此外，這些努力引起了隱私研究者的擔(dān)憂，因為零售商在數(shù)字化他們的店鋪時可以采集大量有關(guān)購物者行為的數(shù)據(jù)。例如，在亞馬遜 Go內(nèi)部，購物者一旦進(jìn)入商店，店內(nèi)攝像頭會無時無刻監(jiān)視他們。

Retailers had adopted technologies in their stores long before Amazon Go arrived on the scene. Self-checkout kiosks have been common in supermarkets and other stores for years. Kroger, the grocery chain, uses sensors and predictive analytics tools to better anticipate when more cashiers will be needed.

早在亞馬遜 Go出現(xiàn)之前就已經(jīng)有零售商在店內(nèi)使用自動化技術(shù)。多年來，自助結(jié)賬機(jī)在超市和其他商店中已經(jīng)變得很常見。雜貨連鎖商店克羅格(Kroger)使用了傳感器和預(yù)測分析工具來更好地預(yù)測何時需要更多收銀員。

But the opening of Amazon Go in January was alarming for many retailers, who saw a sudden willingness by Amazon to wield its technology power in new ways. Hundreds of cameras near the ceiling and sensors in the shelves help automatically tally the cookies, chips and soda that shoppers remove and put into their bags. Shoppers’ accounts are charged as they walk out the doors.

然而，亞馬遜 Go在一月開業(yè)令很多零售商感到緊張，它們看到亞馬遜突然愿意以新的方式運(yùn)用其技術(shù)力量。天花板上的數(shù)百攝像頭和貨架上的傳感器可以自動記錄購物者取出并放入他們包中的餅干、薯片和汽水。購物者走出商店時，他們的帳戶會自動結(jié)賬。

Nowhere are retailers experimenting more avidly with automating store shopping than in China, a country obsessed by new tech fads.

在癡迷于新科技時尚的中國，零售商格外熱衷于進(jìn)行自動化商店實驗。

One effort is a chain of more than 100 unmanned convenience shops from a startup called Bingo Box, one of which sits in a business park in Shanghai. Shoppers scan a code on their phones to enter and, once inside, scan the items they want to buy. The store unlocks the exit door after they have paid through their phones.

其中一項努力是一家名為繽果盒子的創(chuàng)業(yè)公司，他們開了一百多家無人連鎖便利店，其中一家位于上海的一個商業(yè)園內(nèi)。購物者可以用手機(jī)掃描二維碼進(jìn)入商店，然后在店內(nèi)掃描他們想要購買的物品。通過手機(jī)付款后，商店將打開出口。

Alibaba, one of China’s largest internet companies, has opened 35 of its Hema automated grocery stores, which blend online ordering with automated checkout. Customers scan their groceries at checkout kiosks, using facial recognition to pay electronically, while bags of groceries ordered by customers online float overhead on aerial conveyors, headed to a loading dock for delivery to shoppers.

中國最大的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)公司之一阿里巴巴開設(shè)了35家名叫盒馬鮮生的自動化食雜店，將在線訂購和自動結(jié)賬融為一體。顧客到結(jié)賬機(jī)掃描商品，使用面部識別進(jìn)行電子付款，在他們的頭頂，由顧客網(wǎng)購的食雜貨物正通過空中傳送帶送往一個裝貨點(diǎn)，準(zhǔn)備遞送給顧客。

Not to be outdone, JD, another big internet retailer in China, said in December that it had teamed up with a developer to build hundreds of its own unmanned convenience shops. The businesses put readable chips on items to automate the checkout process.

中國另一家大型互聯(lián)網(wǎng)零售商京東也不甘示弱，它在去年12月表示已經(jīng)與開發(fā)商合作建造了數(shù)百家無人便利商店。這家企業(yè)在商品上安裝了可讀芯片，從而實現(xiàn)自動化結(jié)賬。

At its huge campus south of Beijing, JD is testing a new store that relies on computer vision and sensors on the shelves to know when items have been taken. The system tracks shopping without tagging products with chips. Payment, which for now still happens at a kiosk, is done with facial recognition.

在其位于北京南邊的一棟大樓里，京東正在測試一種新型商店，它依靠貨架上的計算機(jī)視像和傳感器來得知商品什么時候已被買走。該系統(tǒng)無需使用芯片標(biāo)記商品就可以跟蹤購物過程。結(jié)賬目前還需要在收銀機(jī)，是通過面部識別完成的。

JD and Alibaba both plan to sell their systems to other retailers and are working on additional checkout technologies.

京東和阿里巴巴都計劃將自己的系統(tǒng)賣給其他零售商，并且都在研發(fā)其他結(jié)賬技術(shù)。

Back in the United States, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is testing the Bossa Nova robots in dozens of its locations to reduce some tedious tasks that can eat up a worker’s time. The robots, which look like giant wheeled luggage bags, roll up and down the aisles looking for shelves where cereal boxes are out of stock and items like toys are mislabeled. The machines then report back to workers, who restock the shelves and apply new labels.

在美國，全球最大的零售商沃爾瑪(Walmart)正在數(shù)十個地方測試Bossa Nova機(jī)器人，以減少一些單調(diào)乏味、耗費(fèi)工人時間的任務(wù)。這些看似巨型輪式行李箱的機(jī)器人在過道里來來回回，尋找麥片脫銷和玩具等物品被貼錯標(biāo)簽的貨架。然后這些機(jī)器向工人反饋，他們會補(bǔ)貨并貼上新的標(biāo)簽。

At 120 of Walmart’s 4,700 U.S. stores, shoppers can also scan items, including fruits and vegetables, using the camera on their smartphones and pay for them using the devices. When customers walk out, an employee checks their receipts and does a “spot check” of the items they bought.

在美國4700家沃爾瑪門店中，120家店的顧客可以用智能手機(jī)上的攝像頭掃描水果和蔬菜等商品，并用智能手機(jī)付賬。顧客離開時，會有一名工作人員檢查他們的小票，并對他們購買的商品進(jìn)行“抽查”。

Kroger, one of the country’s largest grocery chains, has also been testing a mobile scanning service in its supermarkets, recently announcing that it would expand it to 400 of its more 2,700 stores.

作為美國最大的食品雜貨連鎖之一，克羅格一直在自己的超市里測試一項移動掃描服務(wù)，并在最近宣布將把它擴(kuò)大到其2700家門店中的400家。

New startups are seeking to give retailers the technology to compete with Amazon’s system. One of them, AiFi, is working on cashierless checkout technology that it says will be flexible and affordable enough that mom-and-pop retailers and bigger outlets can use it. In the United States, venture capitalists put $100 million into retail automation startups in each of the past two years, up from about $64 million in 2024, according Pitchbook, a financial data firm.

新的初創(chuàng)公司正在爭取給零售商提供與亞馬遜的系統(tǒng)競爭的技術(shù)。其中，AiFi正在研究無收銀員結(jié)賬技術(shù)。該公司稱這種技術(shù)靈活、經(jīng)濟(jì)，夫妻店和較大的零售店都能使用。據(jù)金融數(shù)據(jù)公司Pitchbook稱，在美國，風(fēng)險投資人過去兩年每年向零售自動化初創(chuàng)公司投資1億美元，而2024年這個數(shù)字約為6400萬美元。

“There’s a gold rush feeling about this,” said Alan O’Herlihy, chief executive of Everseen, an Irish company working with retailers on automated checkout technology that uses artificial intelligence.

“這有一種淘金熱的感覺，”愛爾蘭公司Everseen的首席執(zhí)行官艾倫·歐赫利希(Alan O 'Herlihy)說。該公司正在與零售商合作開發(fā)使用人工智能的自動結(jié)賬技術(shù)。

While such technologies could improve the shopping experience, there may also be consequences that people find less desirable. Retailers like Amazon could compile reams of data about where customers spend time inside their doors, comparable to what internet companies already know about their online habits.

這類技術(shù)雖然可能會改善購物體驗，但也可能產(chǎn)生人們不那么喜歡的后果。像亞馬遜這樣的零售商可以收集大量有關(guān)顧客到店后把時間花在了哪里的數(shù)據(jù)，類似于網(wǎng)絡(luò)公司對人們上網(wǎng)習(xí)慣的了解。

“It’s combined with everything else Amazon might know about you,” said Gennie Gebhart, a researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties organization. “Amazon knows what I buy online, what I watch and now how I move around a space.”

“它同亞馬遜可能了解到的你的其他所有信息結(jié)合起來，”在線公民自由組織電子前沿基金會(Electronic Frontier Foundation)的研究員基妮·格布哈特(Gennie Gebhart)說。“亞馬遜知道我在網(wǎng)上買什么，看什么，現(xiàn)在又知道了我在一個地方的移動軌跡。”

In China, there is less public concern about data privacy issues. Many Chinese citizens have become accustomed to high levels of surveillance, including widespread security cameras and government monitoring of online communications.

在中國，公眾對數(shù)據(jù)隱私問題不那么關(guān)注。很多中國公民習(xí)慣了高度的監(jiān)視，包括廣泛存在的監(jiān)控攝像頭和政府對網(wǎng)上交流的監(jiān)視。

Depending on how heavily retailers automate in the years to come, job losses could be severe in a sector that has already experienced wave after wave of store closings by the likes of Macy’s, Toys “R” Us and Sears.

這個行業(yè)已經(jīng)經(jīng)歷了梅西百貨(Macy's)、玩具反斗城(Toys “R” Us)和西爾斯(Sears)之類一波又一波關(guān)店潮，今后失業(yè)現(xiàn)象可能會很嚴(yán)重，這具體取決于零售商在接下來幾年里的自動化程度會有多高。

Retailers are playing down the threat to jobs. Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, says that it does not anticipate automation will lead to job losses, but rather that the new technologies are meant to redirect employees to spend more time helping customers find what they need.

零售商正在淡化自動化對就業(yè)的威脅。作為美國最大的私人雇主，沃爾瑪稱，它預(yù)計自動化不會導(dǎo)致裁員，并表示新技術(shù)的本意是重新讓員工把更多時間用在幫助顧客找到他們需要的東西上。

SEATTLE — To see what it is like inside stores where sensors and artificial intelligence have replaced cashiers, shoppers have to trek to Amazon Go, the internet retailer’s experimental convenience shop in downtown Seattle.

西雅圖——想看看用傳感器和人工智能取代了收銀員的商店里是什么樣的，購物者必須前往網(wǎng)絡(luò)零售商亞馬遜(Amazon)在西雅圖市中心開設(shè)的試驗性無人便利商店亞馬遜 Go。

Soon, though, more technology-driven businesses like Amazon Go may be coming to them.

不過，更多像這樣由科技驅(qū)動的商店很快就會來到購物者身邊。

A global race to automate stores is underway among several of the world’s top retailers and small tech startups, which are motivated to shave labor costs and minimize shoppers’ frustrations, like waiting for cashiers. They are also trying to prevent Amazon from dominating the physical retail world as it does online shopping.

一些世界最頂級的零售商和小型科技初創(chuàng)公司正在全球范圍內(nèi)進(jìn)行自動化商店的競爭，這些初創(chuàng)公司希望削減勞動成本，把購物者的不滿——例如排隊結(jié)賬——降到最低。它們還在試圖阻止亞馬遜像控制網(wǎng)絡(luò)購物一樣掌控實體零售市場。

Companies are testing robots that help keep shelves stocked, as well as apps that let shoppers ring up items with a smartphone. High-tech systems like the one used by Amazon Go completely automate the checkout process. China, which has its own ambitious e-commerce companies, is emerging as an especially fertile place for these retail experiments.

這些公司正在測試填充貨架的機(jī)器人，以及讓購物者通過智能手機(jī)錄入商品的應(yīng)用。包括亞馬遜 Go這樣的高科技系統(tǒng)會把顧客結(jié)賬的過程完全自動化。擁有眾多志向遠(yuǎn)大的電商公司的中國，尤其成了進(jìn)行這些零售實驗的沃土。

If they succeed, these new technologies could add further uncertainty to the retail workforce, which is already in flux because of the growth of online shopping. An analysis last year by the World Economic Forum said 30-50 percent of the world’s retail jobs could be at risk once technologies like automated checkout were fully embraced.

如果它們?nèi)〉贸晒Γ@些新技術(shù)可能會進(jìn)一步增加零售業(yè)勞動力市場的不確定性，這個市場已經(jīng)因為網(wǎng)絡(luò)購物的增長變得不穩(wěn)定。世界經(jīng)濟(jì)論壇(World Economic Forum)去年的一項分析指出，一旦像自動結(jié)賬這樣的技術(shù)完全被接受，全球30％-50％的零售業(yè)工作可能面臨消失的風(fēng)險。

In addition, the efforts have raised concerns among privacy researchers because of the mounds of data that retailers will be able to gather about shopper behavior as they digitize their locations. Inside Amazon Go, for instance, the cameras never lose sight of a customer once he or she enters the shop.

此外，這些努力引起了隱私研究者的擔(dān)憂，因為零售商在數(shù)字化他們的店鋪時可以采集大量有關(guān)購物者行為的數(shù)據(jù)。例如，在亞馬遜 Go內(nèi)部，購物者一旦進(jìn)入商店，店內(nèi)攝像頭會無時無刻監(jiān)視他們。

Retailers had adopted technologies in their stores long before Amazon Go arrived on the scene. Self-checkout kiosks have been common in supermarkets and other stores for years. Kroger, the grocery chain, uses sensors and predictive analytics tools to better anticipate when more cashiers will be needed.

早在亞馬遜 Go出現(xiàn)之前就已經(jīng)有零售商在店內(nèi)使用自動化技術(shù)。多年來，自助結(jié)賬機(jī)在超市和其他商店中已經(jīng)變得很常見。雜貨連鎖商店克羅格(Kroger)使用了傳感器和預(yù)測分析工具來更好地預(yù)測何時需要更多收銀員。

But the opening of Amazon Go in January was alarming for many retailers, who saw a sudden willingness by Amazon to wield its technology power in new ways. Hundreds of cameras near the ceiling and sensors in the shelves help automatically tally the cookies, chips and soda that shoppers remove and put into their bags. Shoppers’ accounts are charged as they walk out the doors.

然而，亞馬遜 Go在一月開業(yè)令很多零售商感到緊張，它們看到亞馬遜突然愿意以新的方式運(yùn)用其技術(shù)力量。天花板上的數(shù)百攝像頭和貨架上的傳感器可以自動記錄購物者取出并放入他們包中的餅干、薯片和汽水。購物者走出商店時，他們的帳戶會自動結(jié)賬。

Nowhere are retailers experimenting more avidly with automating store shopping than in China, a country obsessed by new tech fads.

在癡迷于新科技時尚的中國，零售商格外熱衷于進(jìn)行自動化商店實驗。

One effort is a chain of more than 100 unmanned convenience shops from a startup called Bingo Box, one of which sits in a business park in Shanghai. Shoppers scan a code on their phones to enter and, once inside, scan the items they want to buy. The store unlocks the exit door after they have paid through their phones.

其中一項努力是一家名為繽果盒子的創(chuàng)業(yè)公司，他們開了一百多家無人連鎖便利店，其中一家位于上海的一個商業(yè)園內(nèi)。購物者可以用手機(jī)掃描二維碼進(jìn)入商店，然后在店內(nèi)掃描他們想要購買的物品。通過手機(jī)付款后，商店將打開出口。

Alibaba, one of China’s largest internet companies, has opened 35 of its Hema automated grocery stores, which blend online ordering with automated checkout. Customers scan their groceries at checkout kiosks, using facial recognition to pay electronically, while bags of groceries ordered by customers online float overhead on aerial conveyors, headed to a loading dock for delivery to shoppers.

中國最大的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)公司之一阿里巴巴開設(shè)了35家名叫盒馬鮮生的自動化食雜店，將在線訂購和自動結(jié)賬融為一體。顧客到結(jié)賬機(jī)掃描商品，使用面部識別進(jìn)行電子付款，在他們的頭頂，由顧客網(wǎng)購的食雜貨物正通過空中傳送帶送往一個裝貨點(diǎn)，準(zhǔn)備遞送給顧客。

Not to be outdone, JD, another big internet retailer in China, said in December that it had teamed up with a developer to build hundreds of its own unmanned convenience shops. The businesses put readable chips on items to automate the checkout process.

中國另一家大型互聯(lián)網(wǎng)零售商京東也不甘示弱，它在去年12月表示已經(jīng)與開發(fā)商合作建造了數(shù)百家無人便利商店。這家企業(yè)在商品上安裝了可讀芯片，從而實現(xiàn)自動化結(jié)賬。

At its huge campus south of Beijing, JD is testing a new store that relies on computer vision and sensors on the shelves to know when items have been taken. The system tracks shopping without tagging products with chips. Payment, which for now still happens at a kiosk, is done with facial recognition.

在其位于北京南邊的一棟大樓里，京東正在測試一種新型商店，它依靠貨架上的計算機(jī)視像和傳感器來得知商品什么時候已被買走。該系統(tǒng)無需使用芯片標(biāo)記商品就可以跟蹤購物過程。結(jié)賬目前還需要在收銀機(jī)，是通過面部識別完成的。

JD and Alibaba both plan to sell their systems to other retailers and are working on additional checkout technologies.

京東和阿里巴巴都計劃將自己的系統(tǒng)賣給其他零售商，并且都在研發(fā)其他結(jié)賬技術(shù)。

Back in the United States, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, is testing the Bossa Nova robots in dozens of its locations to reduce some tedious tasks that can eat up a worker’s time. The robots, which look like giant wheeled luggage bags, roll up and down the aisles looking for shelves where cereal boxes are out of stock and items like toys are mislabeled. The machines then report back to workers, who restock the shelves and apply new labels.

在美國，全球最大的零售商沃爾瑪(Walmart)正在數(shù)十個地方測試Bossa Nova機(jī)器人，以減少一些單調(diào)乏味、耗費(fèi)工人時間的任務(wù)。這些看似巨型輪式行李箱的機(jī)器人在過道里來來回回，尋找麥片脫銷和玩具等物品被貼錯標(biāo)簽的貨架。然后這些機(jī)器向工人反饋，他們會補(bǔ)貨并貼上新的標(biāo)簽。

At 120 of Walmart’s 4,700 U.S. stores, shoppers can also scan items, including fruits and vegetables, using the camera on their smartphones and pay for them using the devices. When customers walk out, an employee checks their receipts and does a “spot check” of the items they bought.

在美國4700家沃爾瑪門店中，120家店的顧客可以用智能手機(jī)上的攝像頭掃描水果和蔬菜等商品，并用智能手機(jī)付賬。顧客離開時，會有一名工作人員檢查他們的小票，并對他們購買的商品進(jìn)行“抽查”。

Kroger, one of the country’s largest grocery chains, has also been testing a mobile scanning service in its supermarkets, recently announcing that it would expand it to 400 of its more 2,700 stores.

作為美國最大的食品雜貨連鎖之一，克羅格一直在自己的超市里測試一項移動掃描服務(wù)，并在最近宣布將把它擴(kuò)大到其2700家門店中的400家。

New startups are seeking to give retailers the technology to compete with Amazon’s system. One of them, AiFi, is working on cashierless checkout technology that it says will be flexible and affordable enough that mom-and-pop retailers and bigger outlets can use it. In the United States, venture capitalists put $100 million into retail automation startups in each of the past two years, up from about $64 million in 2024, according Pitchbook, a financial data firm.

新的初創(chuàng)公司正在爭取給零售商提供與亞馬遜的系統(tǒng)競爭的技術(shù)。其中，AiFi正在研究無收銀員結(jié)賬技術(shù)。該公司稱這種技術(shù)靈活、經(jīng)濟(jì)，夫妻店和較大的零售店都能使用。據(jù)金融數(shù)據(jù)公司Pitchbook稱，在美國，風(fēng)險投資人過去兩年每年向零售自動化初創(chuàng)公司投資1億美元，而2024年這個數(shù)字約為6400萬美元。

“There’s a gold rush feeling about this,” said Alan O’Herlihy, chief executive of Everseen, an Irish company working with retailers on automated checkout technology that uses artificial intelligence.

“這有一種淘金熱的感覺，”愛爾蘭公司Everseen的首席執(zhí)行官艾倫·歐赫利希(Alan O 'Herlihy)說。該公司正在與零售商合作開發(fā)使用人工智能的自動結(jié)賬技術(shù)。

While such technologies could improve the shopping experience, there may also be consequences that people find less desirable. Retailers like Amazon could compile reams of data about where customers spend time inside their doors, comparable to what internet companies already know about their online habits.

這類技術(shù)雖然可能會改善購物體驗，但也可能產(chǎn)生人們不那么喜歡的后果。像亞馬遜這樣的零售商可以收集大量有關(guān)顧客到店后把時間花在了哪里的數(shù)據(jù)，類似于網(wǎng)絡(luò)公司對人們上網(wǎng)習(xí)慣的了解。

“It’s combined with everything else Amazon might know about you,” said Gennie Gebhart, a researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties organization. “Amazon knows what I buy online, what I watch and now how I move around a space.”

“它同亞馬遜可能了解到的你的其他所有信息結(jié)合起來，”在線公民自由組織電子前沿基金會(Electronic Frontier Foundation)的研究員基妮·格布哈特(Gennie Gebhart)說。“亞馬遜知道我在網(wǎng)上買什么，看什么，現(xiàn)在又知道了我在一個地方的移動軌跡。”

In China, there is less public concern about data privacy issues. Many Chinese citizens have become accustomed to high levels of surveillance, including widespread security cameras and government monitoring of online communications.

在中國，公眾對數(shù)據(jù)隱私問題不那么關(guān)注。很多中國公民習(xí)慣了高度的監(jiān)視，包括廣泛存在的監(jiān)控攝像頭和政府對網(wǎng)上交流的監(jiān)視。

Depending on how heavily retailers automate in the years to come, job losses could be severe in a sector that has already experienced wave after wave of store closings by the likes of Macy’s, Toys “R” Us and Sears.

這個行業(yè)已經(jīng)經(jīng)歷了梅西百貨(Macy's)、玩具反斗城(Toys “R” Us)和西爾斯(Sears)之類一波又一波關(guān)店潮，今后失業(yè)現(xiàn)象可能會很嚴(yán)重，這具體取決于零售商在接下來幾年里的自動化程度會有多高。

Retailers are playing down the threat to jobs. Walmart, the largest private employer in the United States, says that it does not anticipate automation will lead to job losses, but rather that the new technologies are meant to redirect employees to spend more time helping customers find what they need.

零售商正在淡化自動化對就業(yè)的威脅。作為美國最大的私人雇主，沃爾瑪稱，它預(yù)計自動化不會導(dǎo)致裁員，并表示新技術(shù)的本意是重新讓員工把更多時間用在幫助顧客找到他們需要的東西上。