The most mundane example is one you will see in every supermarket: checkout staff replaced by a single employee monitoring a bank of self-service machines. (Though perhaps this is not automation proper – the supermarket has just shifted some of the work of shopping onto the customer.)
目前资本取代劳动力的趋势已经不仅局限在制造业。最不起眼的例子是超市用由一名员工监督的银行自助服务机取代了收银员的岗位。（虽然这样的自动化并不恰当，因为超市将购物的工作部分转嫁给了顾客。）