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TAMPA — With the rise of specialty grocers like Sprouts, Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods Market, Lakeland-based Publix Supermarkets has spent nearly a decade trying to build brand awareness around its own organic chain known as GreenWise Markets.
But now the Florida grocer is abandoning that route and instead will focus on bringing some of those GreenWise perks into traditional stores. Publix chose a store in Tampa to be the prototype going forward.
I visited this new store to see how and where “shopping is a pleasure” is evolving.
I pulled into the Gandy Shopping Center parking lot in Tampa and there it was: the redeveloped Publix that opened in March. The outside of the 61,000-square-foot store had naturalistic tones from the gray bricks to the mahogany-brown wood paneling behind it. It’s a similar color aesthetic to the Whole Foods at Countryside Mall across the bay in Clearwater.
This new prototype store is larger than the average Publix, said spokesperson Hannah Herring. Inside, there’s the usual staple departments like dairy, frozen food, seafood, meat, fresh produce, a deli, pharmacy and full-service bakery. But there’s also extra space for features like a cafe and bar, upstairs and outside seating, and burrito, pizza and pasta stations.
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Wanted: An AI job that (mostly) doesn’t exist yet
At one time, no one had ever heard of a telegraph operator. An electrician. Auto mechanic. TV producer. X-ray technician. Software developer. Webmaster. Cybersecurity specialist.
Advancements in technology have always spawned new kinds of jobs while rendering other ones obsolete. Artificial intelligence will be no exception. Right now, we don’t fully know what those jobs will be. But that hasn’t stopped job seekers from trying to find out.
Prognosticators say artificial intelligence will likely have a similar impact on the labor market — and workers want to get in on the ground floor. But it’s clear that even employers don’t know what those jobs are. Not yet, at least.
To be clear, automation and, to a certain extent, AI have been part of the labor market for quite some time. Who among us hasn’t had an infuriating exchange with a chatbot? But interest in employment related to AI has skyrocketed in the past two years. Searches for AI-related jobs on the employment listings website Indeed have increased 8,200% since March 2021, according to the company. But AI-related job postings by employers have only increased 29.8%.