First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
The short answer
This job is expected to meaningfully change. AI can already assist with or automate many of its tasks. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to shrink over the next decade, with about 5,934 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second most exposed fifth for how much AI could touch it. That doesn't mean the job goes away—it means more of its tasks are the kind AI can help with.
How much AI could touch this job
Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about a third of this job's tasks.
What this means
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second most exposed fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.
What AI can and can’t help with in this job
The score comes from the real, day-to-day tasks of this job—not a guess about the job as a whole. Below are the tasks that matter most in this job, split by whether AI can help with them.
AI can help with or automate about 90% of the tasks in this job.
Tasks AI can help with or automate
Provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers and responding to customer inquiries and complaints.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Formulate pricing policies for merchandise, according to profitability requirements.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Examine merchandise to ensure that it is correctly priced and displayed and that it functions as advertised.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Tasks AI can't do much of
Perform work activities of subordinates, such as cleaning and organizing shelves and displays and selling merchandise.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Enforce safety, health, and security rules.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Jobs you could switch to
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