Market
Supermarkets convenience and store operations
How far AI got on each kind of work in this market, and the update that showed it.
Work
3
Furthest level reached
L2
Evidence
3
Work in this market
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Assist shoppers process checkout and handle store returns1 evidence14 tasksHeld by a non-technical condition · Payment authority · Physical PresenceL2Partial automation
Payment authorityDeciding charges and handling deposits, payments or billing carries financial liability that an organisation assigns to an accountable person.
Physical PresenceBeing physically present at a site to observe conditions directly and perform hands-on tasks.
| Published | Claimed | Evidence tier | Update | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2Partial automation | L2 | T3Vendor self-report | Qwen3.8-Max tops CommerceAgentBench among open-weight models source | 2026-09-01 |
Count store inventory and manage shrinkage2 evidence2 tasksHeld by a non-technical condition · Physical PresenceL2Partial automation
Physical PresenceBeing physically present at a site to observe conditions directly and perform hands-on tasks.
| Published | Claimed | Evidence tier | Update | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L2Partial automation | L3↓ T3 allows only L2 | T3Vendor self-report | Hung Fook Tong deploys Tencent Cloud ADP for inventory management source | 2026-09-25 |
| L2Partial automation | L2 | T3Vendor self-report | Albertsons runs supply chain on BigQuery and Gemini source | 2026-09-12 |
Replenish shelves maintain displays and price labels0 evidence3 tasksno update mentioned it
No update in the collected window mentioned this work.
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Occupations this market is served by
One market is served by several occupations, so these are not shares of a job.
| Occupation | Confidence |
|---|---|
| Retail Salespersons | 0.91 |
| Cashiers | 0.79 |
| Sales and Related Workers, All Other | 0.67 |
| Customer Service Representatives | 0.64 |
Non-technical conditions holding kinds of work here
A non-technical condition holds a kind of work at L0 until the institution that wrote the rule changes it.
| Non-technical condition | Kind | Status | Work held here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payment authorityDeciding charges and handling deposits, payments or billing carries financial liability that an organisation assigns to an accountable person. | Liability | closed | 1 |
| Physical PresenceBeing physically present at a site to observe conditions directly and perform hands-on tasks. | Physical presence | closed | 2 |
Where this page's numbers come from
- Snapshot
- snapshot-1
- Generated
- 2026-10-09 08:10 UTC
- Ontology
- 1.0.0
- Ontology schema
- 2.4.0
- Method version
- activity-level-1
- Content SHA-256
- 0b46df0246af8a1dc3fd9ce8e6ac9812925ace553984d2b7d45d363d32e27681
- Rows in this snapshot
- 10,482 work-to-task edges · 900 updates · 333 models · 58 topics · 1,888 market-to-occupation edges · 375 source accounts · 1 coverage record · 1 progress record · 11 non-technical conditions · 401 updates that landed on work · 1,102 evidence · 614 work in markets · 506 non-technical condition-to-work edges