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Stockers and Order Fillers
Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Take inventory or examine merchandise to identify items to be reordered or replenished.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.Mostly human for now
- 03Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.Mostly human for now
- 04Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.Mostly human for now
- 05Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.Mostly human for now
- 06Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.Mostly human for now
- 07Mark stock items, using identification tags, stamps, electric marking tools, or other labeling equipment.Mostly human for now
- 08Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.Mostly human for now
- 09Requisition merchandise from supplier, based on available space, merchandise on hand, customer demand, or advertised specials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Compare merchandise invoices to items actually received to ensure that shipments are correct.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
18%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 33% 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 88% 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.
- Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
- Receive and count stock items, and record data manually or on computer.
- Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.