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No amount of automation is going to prevent an Apple Store from needing a genius or a Gap from needing shirt folders.

Really? You can't imagine a robotic shirt-folding device could ever be invented? Whatever tech news you're paying attention to is about 70 years out of date.

That's not counting that if shirts were on hangers and you could easily get a hanger of "everything that fits me well" then they wouldn't need folding at all.



To help the imagination along:

https://www.google.com/search?q=shirt+folding+robot


You two make me laugh.

You just invented a robot that fits on the back of a horse, picking up the poop, putting street-cleaners out of business.

I don't think there's going to be a robotic shirt-folding device. More likely, shirts will be "printed" on demand. No store necessary.


Actually, I will need a robotic shirt-folding device, but in my home. Folding shirts sucks.


So, dissolve the shirt at the end of the day, and "print" a new shirt for every day.




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