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Having a cashier ring up your grocery store purchases feels like a luxury good these days. Don’t overlook the role rising minimum wages played in this development.
The California law is a response to the reality that fast food staffers and other face daily by raising hourly pay $4 above the state’s $16 an hour minimum wage.
From the editorial, " ... the experience of Target and Walmart show that higher labor costs make automation ever more affordable and desirable. Robots still work for $0 an hour."
Having a cashier ring up your grocery store purchases feels like a luxury good these days. Don’t overlook the role rising minimum wages played in this development.
What Target and Walmart show is that higher labor costs make automation look ever more affordable. Robots still work for $0 an hour.