Arrange merchandise and sales promotion displays or issue sales promotion materials to customers.

“Arrange merchandise and sales promotion displays or issue sales promotion materials to customers.” is a supplemental task performed by Driver/Sales Workers. Among the occupation's 12 rated tasks, workers place it 11th by importance (#2 most important).

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Sell products or services. in Selling or Influencing Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 100% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Drive trucks to deliver such items as food, medical supplies, or newspapers. · importance 4.3
• Collect coins from vending machines, refill machines, and remove aged merchandise. · importance 4.1
• Inform regular customers of new products or services and price changes. · importance 4.1
• Record sales or delivery information on daily sales or delivery record. · importance 4.0
• Listen to and resolve customers' complaints regarding products or services. · importance 4.0
• Collect money from customers, make change, and record transactions on customer receipts. · importance 4.0
• Maintain trucks and food-dispensing equipment and clean inside of machines that dispense food or beverages. · importance 4.0
• Write customer orders and sales contracts according to company guidelines. · importance 3.7
• Review lists of dealers, customers, or station drops and load trucks. · importance 3.5
• Call on prospective customers to explain company services or to solicit new business.
• Sell food specialties, such as sandwiches and beverages, to office workers and patrons of sports events.

See all tasks on the Driver/Sales Workers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-3163,
  title  = {Arrange merchandise and sales promotion displays or issue sales promotion materials to customers.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-3163}
}