{"id":6952,"date":"2022-05-04T10:50:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T09:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/new-study-ai-automation-in-retail\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T08:24:09","slug":"new-study-ai-automation-in-retail","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/new-study-ai-automation-in-retail\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study: AI &amp; Automation in Retail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Together with the <a href=\"https:\/\/futureofwork.fes.de\/\">FES Competence Centre Future of Work<\/a>, UNI Europa has published a\u202fnew report titled <strong>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Artificial-Intelligence-and-Automation-in-Retail_EN.pdf\">Artificial Intelligence and Automation in Retail. Benefits, challenges, and implications\u202f(a union perspective)<\/a>&#8221; <\/strong>authored by <a href=\"https:\/\/digit-research.org\/researcher\/dr-wil-hunt\/\"><strong>Wil Hunt<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/digit-research.org\/researcher\/dr-steve-rolf\/\"><strong>Steve Rolf<\/strong><\/a> , Research Fellows at the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (<a href=\"https:\/\/digit-research.org\/\">Digit<\/a>) at the University of Sussex.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>The aim of the project was to help affiliated trade unions in the Commerce sector get a timely insight into how technological trends are reshaping retail. 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