Supermarket workers had never heard of ChatGPT, reminding Reddit that AI adoption is far from saturated
ChiaraStellata · reddit · 2026-09-15
A Reddit user overheard two supermarket staff: one suggested asking ChatGPT about a problem, the other asked "What's that?" — explained only as "you ask it questions and it gives you answers."
The poster had assumed that after years of rapid growth, the only non-users were principled refusers, but many people have still never even heard of AI chatbots, and awareness keeps spreading by word of mouth. Takeaway: the market is far from saturated.
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