So much for minimum wage. Cost of automation was cheaper than hiring two guys to do the same. Ask 'em if they'd have taken a pay cut to not have their jobs cut.
On the plus side, Barrow County is getting a lot of new stuff. They might have gone off to Bogart to get a job at the new Caterpillar plant, or to the retail development on University Parkway.
It's still not great to be replaced by a robot, but it's not a hopeless situation here like it is in a lot of places.
It's still not great to be replaced by a robot, but it's not a hopeless situation here like it is in a lot of places.