Will AI replace Stockers and Order Fillers?
AI reaches little of this job’s work.
17/100
Low exposure
More exposed to AI than 30% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 0% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 25% of the work
What the job involves
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.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Within reach(8)
- Answer customers' questions about merchandise and advise customers on merchandise selection.
- Recommend disposal of excess, defective, or obsolete stock.
- Dispose of damaged or defective items, or return them to vendors.
- Read orders to ascertain catalog numbers, sizes, colors, and quantities of merchandise.
- Keep records on the use or damage of stock or stock-handling equipment.
and 3 more
Out of reach(22)
- Receive, unload, open, unpack, or issue sales floor merchandise.
- Pack and unpack items to be stocked on shelves in stockrooms, warehouses, or storage yards.
- Stock shelves, racks, cases, bins, and tables with new or transferred merchandise.
- Store items in an orderly and accessible manner in warehouses, tool rooms, supply rooms, or other areas.
- Obtain merchandise from bins or shelves.
and 17 more
Also called
Grocery Stocker · Inventory Technician (Inventory Tech) · Label Maker · Warehouse Technician (Warehouse Tech) · Warehouse Worker · Dairy Clerk · Grocery Clerk · Inventory Clerk
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics