[StevePerkins]

Amazon is as awful to their employees as any other retailer, and worse than many.

There are pretty much only two only MAJOR retailers with good labor reputations. One is Costco, and that's only because they can run their business with a fraction of the employee-to-square-footage ratio that most retailers need. The other is Whole Foods... which has been getting worse for years, and will probably accelerate down that path now that they're owned by Amazon.

It's a race to the bottom. There are no good guys.

[syshum]

The race to the bottom is the elimation of those jobs completely.

Today a store that used to have 5 cashiers needs 1 to monitor 5 self checkout stations.

Amazon and others are working on eliminating that final job...

They are also working on ways to fill the shelves with no human involvement, and robot shopping assistance that you can ask for help

we are probably less than 10 years away from the first retail store with no human employees, or at most 1 or 2 to monitor the robots

[arkitaip]

Let's not jizz ourselves over the loss of millions of retail jobs that won't be replaced any time soon. Not everyone can be a fullstack js ninja or thought leader in fidget spinners.