TECHNOLOGY & COST REDUCTIONS

How are technological improvements transforming the Retail Sector on our High Streets?

CLICK here to an article from The Independent on ways in which technology is already succeeding in reducing retail costs - with its implications on the reduced number of jobs in the sector.

SUGGESTIONS :

-  Ask the students to tell you first how technology is already transforming the retail industry.

- Get students to consider how the use of drones may have a big impact on costs and jobs in the retail industry in future years.

- Have the students produce their own brief summary of the article - with a list of the ways in which technology is transforming the industry - along with its likely longer-term impacts on the industry.