Corporations have learned that consumer goods are America's weakness. Most invasive and detrimental technologies are introduced via consumer goods and services. You see things like this and think, "Oh, it'll just be some cashiers out of work. So what?" Being that the average American is a moron the corporations don't have to worry about them looking behind the curtain or peaking under the hood and seeing all of the bits and pieces that make up this new convenience. Bits and pieces that can now be ported over to other industries and aspects of life. I have no idea why, given the history of big business in this country, that Americans believe that corporations will cease using invasive automation once all the riff raff are weeded out of the system and just use that tech to focus on making life a convenient consumer utopia for the middle class. Nooooooo no no no, getting rid of Tykeisha, Byron and Paco is just the warm up. The end goal is to apply automation to white collar jobs as well. Middle class labor is expensive.
); it will never be the norm. Too much of a haute class concept. 
