Editing Automation (section)

===Retail===
{{Main|Automated retail}}
Many [[supermarkets]] and even smaller stores are rapidly introducing [[self-checkout]] systems reducing the need for employing checkout workers. In the U.S., the retail industry employs 15.9 million people as of 2017 (around 1 in 9 Americans in the workforce). Globally, an estimated 192 million workers could be affected by automation according to research by [[Eurasia Group]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news|title=The decline of established American retailing threatens jobs|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21721900-love-affair-shopping-has-gone-online-decline-established-american-retailing|access-date=28 May 2017}}</ref>
[[File:016 Coca-Cola vending machine at Kyoto Station, Japan - コカコーラ 自動販売機.JPG|thumb|A soft drink [[vending machine]] in Japan, an example of automated retail]] [[Online shopping]] could be considered a form of automated retail as the payment and checkout are through an automated [[online transaction processing]] system, with the share of online retail accounting jumping from 5.1% in 2011 to 8.3% in 2016. {{Citation needed|date=September 2017}} However, two-thirds of books, music, and films are now purchased online. In addition, automation and online shopping could reduce demands for shopping malls, and retail property, which in the United States is currently estimated to account for 31% of all commercial property or around {{Convert | 7 | e9ft2 | e6m2 | abbr=off}}. [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] has gained much of the growth in recent years for online shopping, accounting for half of the growth in online retail in 2016.<ref name=":0" /> Other forms of automation can also be an integral part of online shopping, for example, the deployment of automated warehouse robotics such as that applied by [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] using [[Kiva Systems]].