is how to construct a car that used to bring energy solutions and reforestation. to create interactive content teaching next generation about environmental protection and we're determined to build something here for the next generation. to use multimedia and farm in series on t w. may i take you to the television department bring him. please not be so fascinated please week after the b b. yes or please. peter it's time for cooler. i robot so that helps you with your shopping coots but still few and far between

right shopping online on the other hand is the new norm though isn't it the digital age is currently revolutionizing the world of commerce trade is in transition you can't to hear more about that than stay right here with us here on made being able to handle most of our business transactions online has changed our lives there's no need to rush out to the shops to get that new pair of shoes today all it takes is one mouse click and you're done but it's also changed the world of work and not necessarily for the better industry giant amazon has repeatedly come under fire for what some call inhumane working conditions at its warehouses but that doesn't put off new age i turn around workers in the united states the so-called work compass all of us sally caught up with a few of them. the recreational the he kill the r.v. the symbol of freedom. homeless wherever you take it and wherever work

may take you. i mean or thing can talk you know which is not exactly known as a tourist destination but home to where house of online retailer amazon and that attracts an increasing number of employees who come to find work but choose to live in their camper vans all year round. a campground near the yamma zone where house is home to around a dozen or a camp purse. it's two pm time to get up for robert barker he works the night shift good morning. good morning good morning robert how you do it and. how is your shift it was great ok yeah easy money man you know basically robert you have your whole life inside that man yeah i've been living in my van for six years now. working seasonal work for amazon and i've done some also i've worked

a job in alaska salmon cannery have worked a beat harvest and. amazon's been really good to me and it's really easy money and allows me the freedom to do what i want. like many were campers robert barker lives a modest life with few frills his kitchen an outdoor microwave and a picnic table. kind of go in time here i mean it's. not even curry right. robards lifestyle saves him two thousand dollars a month he says money he uses later to travel being able to be live in another place for three months four months is nice you know you give you get something new all the time. meeting new friends it's just a good feeling to. go into

a new town and rock it for three months and know that at the end you got a prize pot of gold. you know five month trip to southeast and. robert is forty six he has no partner no children and very few expenses. amazon pace's campsite his health insurance and fifteen dollars an hour when he works managing customer returns it's a temporary contract for a couple of months. then the key to doing it right is you can't have. four hundred dollars car payment or or you know in. debt and i'm debt free. i own my van. and i have like thirty dollars in bills a month and that's how a. five thirty in the evening for robert it's time to go to work.

amazon refuses to give me permission to film on the on line trader is actively seeking work campers on twenty six campgrounds across the u.s. . the cantor family lives next to robert. over ivan. eighty year old ivan cantor is the oldest employee at amazon seaborn warehouse he and his wife lorraine worked to top up their pensions and they say to have a better life. i think that there are a lot of people who. don't like to be tied down. they're you know personally i have to have a home base i've moved too much and if i need a home base all. that the for me i don't like to get out. and this carefree opportunity to do that for financial security but you have to hit

the road to get it perhaps not everyone's dream but it seems to work for some. in a lot of criticism about amazon and concern about what the growing online tree industry would mean for work environments of the united states but one thing seems to be clear that all the work campers in kentucky quite happy with the lifestyle they chose. now than what camping hasn't quite caught on the same way in europe yet even though there are more than a dozen amazon logistics and has in germany alone imus and of course is the world's biggest online retailer in just the past eight years its sales skyrocketed from thirty four billion to two hundred and thirty two billion u.s. dollars and as we know there are always winners and losers in these situations could in this case traditional retailers according to one study it's believed that

in germany by twenty thirty the number of shops will have dropped by half of what's out there today and that's easy to imagine when you think that two thirds of the population already do at least some shopping online and every mouse click generates a certain amount of data revealing to online retailers and sales personnel details about your taste and desire. the e-commerce wave brought products online now nine has an app that replaces sales assistants to you just have to let her software sneak a peek at your living room. in final off by the skin then makes recommendations it's something we ourselves could have used back in the day

a clever algorithm where you can say this is my room that shows what furniture should i buy me a list limited to twenty or thirty ideas that were. ones that suit my style and ideally my budget to the results of my b.g. . and the up available online since late twenty eighteen countries up a virtual model of a chair for instance which you can place wherever you want in the room a furniture company is behind but the software could help to sell other products too so will the classic sales set up that still common and department stores soon the old school for a new generation of consumers. will be a product sales will die out of the most part of the everything heading jobless consultative sales. online consulting with customers able to view any model in any color twenty four seven shooters idea drummed up a million euros of startup capital and then effect. it's

a kind of personal shopping assistant thing about a bit like your best friend giving you a cool and saying that she's found something that would suit you happy with this path fantastic. a great way to persuade someone to buy more when they probably already have enough. is a london most prominent e-commerce empire it's. also europe's biggest online clothing retailer serving twenty five million customers with a wide range of tastes the company also knows when to use more traditional business methods and even does some customer surveys offline. and it uses a huge amount of paper notes for those evaluations the key question who has what exact relationship to fashion. unopposed squab and her team optimize the londoners website they work under an assumption supported by market research presents that there are six generic customer types who have different needs and preferences.

so who are these people. how much to kamloops and paul has very little interest in fashion and he knows what suits him and would ideally buy the same jeans over and over. do you know my is the opposite of paul she likes to express herself through fashion she's very extroverted that it depends on these generic customer profiles are central to the websites design they help the company target relevant customers the outgoing guma settings for example are aimed at one of the influencers. am it so much but i think i have an entire section dedicated to influence or recommendation science and force that's important for people who follow fashion who like to measure themselves against other people they find attractive and who they'd like to look like again is also in and this is best very popular. as for those less interested in fashion brands provide some basic

orientation together with suggestions for similar models plus you can shop from home without having to talk to anyone. but as many people have different approaches to deciding what they want to buy a lot of people don't feel comfortable having to discuss what they want with a sales person off so when shopping websites gives them more time and space to look around. e-commerce is booming forecasts say that in the retail sector five years from now germans for example will spend one euro in five on mine. no wonder more and more brick and mortar shops are closing these days they lack customers makes you wonder what the future holds for our high streets and shopping malls looks like the only way for retailers to survive the digital age is to go digital to at least behind the scenes. in store sales assistants to dying species how much longer will we need. to work for this

drugstore has already determined by this man's calculations. for the d.m. chain we forecast how much each branch will turn over for an entire year in advance harvest the company uses that information to optimize vacation planning work schedules etc. to. find provides data that enable stores to automate store management and make decisions like buying new stock having the system automatically submit new orders means lower personnel costs and fewer gaps on the shelves the software can also amend prices to make the business more lucrative find promises his customers who can boost turnover and profit iran five percent. the former physics professor welcomes job applications from fellow physicists because they have strong number crunching skills forecasting sales for a single product can be influenced by over one hundred factors ranging from

advertising to the day of the week the branches location and last year's sales. it also incorporates factors like the weather the first weekend of the year with nice weather everybody wants to grill and that means the forecast for sausages will be completely different than it was the weekend before a little more out of a minimum one of our forecasts is based on data from the factors branches and data so it might be different for every day for every location and every item. can. thing that for an entire product range with two hundred factors of influence would be too much for a person to deal with. this system also includes what's called dynamic pricing where prices are changed according to algorithms. a classic example in the wider world is why stores are able to charge extortionate prices that airports. i think

it's similar to a bizarre tradeoff between time and money and commitment or for me time is a more important resource and money for me so i'm willing to pay more for speed and convenience. but with some people it's different. and that's what gets exploited. that's put into. this is. the owner of this home interior store is confident his company will prevail despite the rise of online rivals dummy and companies also he says his fabrics find something customers can assess via a screen although he admits some things have changed and from small customers used to come by up to five times before buying a piece of furniture today they only come once or twice by the people do so much advance research online but they only come here at the end to make a final decision just recently in trying to push and. you'd think they'd be opposed

to the store owner and who offers personal consultation service via a phone app but in fact they are partners with her helping to sell his furniture at the moment she rarely gets enough three d. product data from manufacturers and the future how soon until our personal shoppers are computer programs thanks don artificial intelligence. so what do they think our sales staff now redundant. he called it depends on the sector as. it is equal kind for i don't need a store to sell me deodorant was. on and there are plenty of other items including electronics where you also don't need advice of mankind for quite a phone. call as in premiums it melts right now always being sales assistants in the upscale segment of the what we do is simply by linking up stationery sales with

online shopping building bridges for trade. smart software and robots are taking over a growing number of jobs and they'll inevitably become better sales consultants after all we are teaching them more every day about how we want to shop in the future. the digital age has changed the way we buy and sell but there are other factors at play too there's bricks it and the u.s. china trade dispute not to forget washington's threats to impose import tariffs on european cars my colleague asked a few people in the know for their thoughts at the geneva international motor show . people say if there's a threat you know i see it as a challenge you know we are completely transforming the automotive business anyway and we have to cope with that and this is one of the figs we have to cope with we are exporting more than seventy percent to the world to europe to china and we are

clearly in favor of free trade so our business model and all the investment we have shown in the united states is based on free trade and i believe this is shown everywhere in the world that free trade creates wealth. not positive thinking can't do any harm even if the idea of shared values in a global world of free trade has come under scrutiny it once looked so promising here in germany and europe let's remind ourselves of what's at stake. how did free trade. come about. in the middle ages this was standard practice merchants pay tolls are bridges mountain passes and city gates well enough goods from one principality to the next. many came via the sea they loaded up boats with fish and preserve them in salt or put brandy in the wind to stop it going bad. clever moves but they still couldn't find

a way to avoid these pesky tolls the merchants wanted them abolished and they also wanted to defend themselves against pirates and thieves on dangerous trade routes so they joined forces in twelve eighty in northern europe they founded the german hanseatic league in lubec it was a great international alliance a confederation of merchants from large cities that soon began to grow the first hamburg then rostock in cologne even cities much farther away soon set up hands of trading posts by the fourteenth century the league included almost two hundred cities. the cog is the vessel most closely associated with this trading network a lot of goods fitted into its ballooning us whole hand sciatic merchants were the global players of the age they could speak foreign languages and were generally well educated rich and had great political influence but the hands the attic league

never became a proper free trade zone in one thousand nine hundred thirty and still had to pay customs duties in forty one different german states and free cities. but increasingly the idea of free trade caught on in eight hundred thirty three the german customs union created a large tariff free area over a century later the foundation for free trade in europe was laid the european coal and steel community was the forerunner of the european union which today guarantees free trade among its member states. the motive was not just economic the idea was to create a system of shared values after all increasing trade also plays a role in promoting peace. if there's one constant in our lives it's change take the mountain village of some now and in the swiss alps for centuries it was isolated and backwards but things took

a drastic turn after the village was granted tax free status in the nineteenth century and there's more change coming this way as did i. found out. this is what the swiss mountain village well known looked like a century ago. today at an upscale shopping paradise. a lot of this dramatic transformation can be attributed to a tiny rule change a change that is still causing problems on the ski slopes today. i went there to find out how that happened. now one is located at the very eastern tip of switzerland right on the border with austria. high up in the mountains it used to be very secluded with the only access to the outside world being through the neighboring country until the late

nineteenth century is unknown was poor with most of the residents being farmers because it was cut off from switzerland all of the goods they could not produce themselves had to come through austria or in switzerland for it instead the whole system countrywide in the late one thousand eight hundred the farm of them no one protested they would have had to pay tariffs and tax on everything that came through austria which they couldn't afford. and that's when it got attributed the status of education free. from the one nine hundred seventy s. onwards was unknown became a popular destination and that's when the duty free status started paying off duty free means you don't have to pay consumption tobacco alcohol tax customs duties either and everyone here profits. are very small and isolated community so you might think that we are in financial trouble but in

comparison to other communities we are very financially stable you also thanks to our duty free status all. the village only has about eight hundred inhabitants but it's also home to about forty shops selling duty free items. so as and duty free shops in airports. tends to be a lot cheaper and the same goes for cigarettes. to my surprise they cost just how tough what they would cost elsewhere because of the high to back on alcohol tax or rather its absence other products here are on average ten to thirty percent cheaper than the regular swiss price great right. this duty free beer. this can also cause problems. i'm directly on the border between austria which is in front of me and switzerland

which is behind some known lies down there. the flames that the ski lift is over two thousand seven hundred metres above sea level many feature rests go shopping down in the known and take their purchases over to austria not on photo by car but on skis talk about shopping in style. but this strict regulations on how much individuals can buy and take away from the known without all the limit is one liter with cigarettes it's ten packets for other goods three hundred euros is the maximum . so if you happen to buy a rolex you have to declare it which not everyone does. to me is here to stop the smuggling as. was cultural regret it does happen sometimes that people see as doing checks then they try to ski down the other side and get away. i'm always on my skis and up until now nobody has managed to avoid

being objective to try and get them and see if it's words. hollow that have just got excuse me i'm from austrian customs or if they are that's was the only reason that everybody is aware of the rules but when i catch them with goods worth over three hundred euros then i have never heard of them of course it is me there was never a look on your watch please. watch it if not for you have to know what. ok. thank you. and the checks don't stop at the mountaintop i can barely catch up. most of the cross border smuggling involves alcohol and tobacco but the customs inspectors are primarily interested in luxury goods. someone's business model however is facing two major headaches. olivia

tech and his family are in seven shops here but one thing we're also feeling the impact of e-commerce. today our customers compare us with the prices online and price that in that's important absolutely and if we don't stay competitive there we have no charge he's got kind of sausage. duty free revenues have been in the last ten to fifteen years here and if you look at the exchange rate over the last decade the euro has lost a third of its value in comparison to the swiss franc and that's why duty free revenues have fallen so there's a long profited off of seclusion and special status but it seems like even this tiny village can't isolate itself from global change. and that's all for this week's edition of a made we're also digital of course you can find us on twitter and facebook and back here next week same time same place

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