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First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of retail sales workers in an establishment or department. Duties may include management functions, such as purchasing, budgeting, accounting, and personnel work, in addition to supervisory duties.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers and responding to customer inquiries and complaints.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Examine merchandise to ensure that it is correctly priced and displayed and that it functions as advertised.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Instruct staff on how to handle difficult and complicated sales.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Assign employees to specific duties.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Keep records of purchases, sales, and requisitions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Perform work activities of subordinates, such as cleaning and organizing shelves and displays and selling merchandise.Mostly human for now
- 09Plan and prepare work schedules and keep records of employees' work schedules and time cards.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Review inventory and sales records to prepare reports for management and budget departments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss26%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
49%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 43% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 55% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Perform work activities of subordinates, such as cleaning and organizing shelves and displays and selling merchandise.
AI tools for your work
Official connectors that let an AI assistant work inside the apps sales use. Each is made by the app’s own maker.