Bag or package purchases and wrap gifts.

“Bag or package purchases and wrap gifts.” is a supplemental task performed by Retail Salespersons. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 9th by importance (#16 most important). About 57% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

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.

• Package objects. in Handling and Moving Objects

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: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Greet customers and ascertain what each customer wants or needs. · importance 4.8
• Recommend, select, and help locate or obtain merchandise based on customer needs and desires. · importance 4.7
• Maintain records related to sales. · importance 4.6
• Compute sales prices, total purchases, and receive and process cash or credit payment. · importance 4.6
• Prepare merchandise for purchase or rental. · importance 4.5
• Answer questions regarding the store and its merchandise. · importance 4.5
• Maintain knowledge of current sales and promotions, policies regarding payment and exchanges, and security practices. · importance 4.5
• Open and close cash registers, performing tasks such as counting money, separating charge slips, coupons, and vouchers, balancing cash drawers, and making deposits. · importance 4.4
• Prepare sales slips or sales contracts. · importance 4.3
• Describe merchandise and explain use, operation, and care of merchandise to customers. · importance 4.3
• Demonstrate use or operation of merchandise. · importance 4.3
• Ticket, arrange, and display merchandise to promote sales. · importance 4.3
• Inventory stock and requisition new stock. · importance 4.2
• Exchange merchandise for customers and accept returns. · importance 4.2

See all tasks on the Retail Salespersons 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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-task-709,
  title  = {Bag or package purchases and wrap gifts.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-709}
}