If this nation survives the oboma administration (though many predict we only have until fall of 2015 before the democrats house of cards collapses the entire global economy), automation will be the wave of the future. Businesses will either finish moving out of the country all together, or automate because they'd have no choice. The cost of minimal labor has already gotten too high to be sustainable.
Margaret Thatcher once said that "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money", and she was soooooo right.
Personally, I like the automated check out at Walmart. I saw one at Home Depot as well. They're very convenient. You don't have to stand behind all those welfare people buying their crap with other peoples money.
Look for more and more businesses to covert the majority of their checkouts to self checkout. Normally they have one attendant for 4-5 self checkout lanes.
Yeah and the next frontier is the fast food industry. I just wonder
What teens and those with limited intelligence are going to do to get their
Foot on the job ladder...