Raw LLM Responses

The trend can already be seen, recently a few weeks ago my neighborhood Walmart renovated and what do you know...they removed every single cashier station (6). That's right the store now has ONLY self checkout stations with a single employee watching every single one. A few months before this they automated the floor cleaning with an AI robot that replaces the guy who once drove the machine. In a few years they will have [automated stockers](https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-adding-robots-help-stock-shelves-to-650-more-stores-2020-1) as told to me by the manager. My city has both a small and large Walmart and many employees shop at my business so I know them personally and while they dont believe employees have been cut down as seen by this [graph](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/number-of-employees) their is obviously a trend starting where employees are being reduced gradually. While a drop of 100,000 employees from 2018-2019 isnt extremely substantial they still employ 2.2 Million globally. Now looking at the number of [stores](https://www.statista.com/statistics/256172/total-number-of-walmart-stores-worldwide/) you can see a drop of 357 stores from 2018-2019 which *might* explain the 100,000 employee drop in that period. **HOWEVER** from 2019-2020 there was an *increase* in stores of about 140 globally yet the number of employees globally remains the same from 2019-2020 at 2.2 Million. It will be telling if the number of employees decreasing coincides with more store being created; this is just the beginning and I feel the real results will be felt in the next 10 years. TLDR; Employees at walmart goes down, Number of stores goes up, coincidence or automation?