Wente mentions supermarket checkouts as future spots where automation will kill off low wage jobs. Two supermarkets in our area of Ottawa already have automated self-serve checkouts, one of which has just installed them. These types of checkouts would certainly become much more popular with shoppers if the supermarkets were to offer discounts of at least 5 per cent to customers who use them. (I, for one, would use the automated checkouts if reasonable discounts were offered.)