Amazon's new grocery stores do not accept cash. They impose the same surveillance as ordering online from Amazon.

In addition, success of this would mean the loss of thousands of jobs.

I refuse absolutely to use automatic checkout machines in stores: I insist on going to the human sales agent, not because I desire a conversation, but specifically to defend their jobs.

What's more, I often shout out loud, "If you use these machines, you're putting Americans out of work," once when I enter and once when I leave. Please join this movement!

Technological "advance" is not an imperative, and it is not always an advance. It is for us to judge whether a technological change is an advance for society. Then society can decide which technologies to use. We can reject harmful technology if we dare to try.