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Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns (www.theguardian.com)

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AFL-CIO calls for ban on such labels to protect consumers and workers from surveillance pricing and job cuts

The universal adoption of electronic shelf labels in grocery stores across the US could cost tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in lost wages while further driving up grocery costs, according to a report released on Tuesday.

An analysis by the AFL-CIO Tech Institute of the label manufacturers’ own marketing materials found the universal adoption of electronic shelf labels, which are marketed to retailers as a cost-cutting measure, could cost workers between $1.6bn to $6.9bn in lost wages annually and affect between 44,223 and 191,633 jobs.

The policy brief – Priced Out, Pushed Out: Electronic Shelf Labels Raise Prices and Shrink Paychecks – calls for a ban on electronic labels to protect consumers and workers.

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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ostensibly it still happens. Losing your job to technology frees you up to work at something a machine can't do, or spend more time doing something fun. But it depends on enough redistribution happening that you can still survive.

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

In the long run, there is very little a machine can't do. Though in some cases we have not quite invented that machine yet.

And right now the job replacement is happening at an exponentially higher level than the industrial revolution everyone compares it to.

This isn't every cobbler going to work in a shoe factory.

Its not like everyone replaced by AI can go become a programmer or a "prompt engineer", especually when in many cases, the AI also already does that job too.

A world where we no longer need to work is fine, but we as a society are not working towards that, because we allow the hoarding of wealth and power instead of punishing it forciboy, brutally, swiftly. We just let that corruption fester and grow.