Humans Have the Edge Over Robots in Whole Foods' Hiring Binge

One of the fears expressed when it first became known that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) planned to buy Whole Foods was that the online retailer would replace human workers with robots. That may be because the digital sales leader tested a convenience store concept, Amazon Go, that did not have traditional human-manned checkout stations. Designed to run without the staff required at a regular store, Go sparked fears that Amazon saw the future of retail as being automated.

It might, but the future is certainly not now. Amazon plans to hire 120,000 seasonal holiday workers for itself and Whole Foods announced recently that it wants to hire 6,000 new workers, including full- and part-time workers for seasonal and permanent positions.

Whole Foods plans to hire 6,000 new employees. Image source: Whole Foods.

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