Examine products purchased for resale or received for storage to determine product condition.

“Examine products purchased for resale or received for storage to determine product condition.” is a supplemental task performed by First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers. Among the occupation's 18 rated tasks, workers place it 12th by importance (#7 most important). About 32% 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.

• Inspect characteristics or conditions of materials or products. in Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

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 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Monitor sales staff performance to ensure that goals are met. · importance 4.3
• Provide staff with assistance in performing difficult or complicated duties. · importance 4.1
• Formulate pricing policies on merchandise according to profitability requirements. · importance 4.1
• Visit retailers and sales representatives to promote products and gather information. · importance 4.1
• Prepare sales and inventory reports for management and budget departments. · importance 4.0
• Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or performing specific services. · importance 4.0
• Examine merchandise to ensure correct pricing and display, and that it functions as advertised. · importance 3.9
• Listen to and resolve customer complaints regarding services, products, or personnel. · importance 3.9
• Keep records pertaining to purchases, sales, and requisitions. · importance 3.9
• Hire, train, and evaluate personnel. · importance 3.9
• Analyze details of sales territories to assess their growth potential and to set quotas. · importance 3.8
• Confer with company officials to develop methods and procedures to increase sales, expand markets, and promote business. · importance 3.8
• Inventory stock and reorder when inventories drop to specified levels. · importance 3.8
• Plan and prepare work schedules, and assign employees to specific duties. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail 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
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

@misc{singulariki-task-9677,
  title  = {Examine products purchased for resale or received for storage to determine product condition.},
  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-9677}
}