An Axios report highlights forced labor abuses in the U.S. grocery food chain. As Thinc Partners operates as a national sales and marketing agent in the grocery channel, their indirect association with supply chains implicated in forced labor raises serious ethical questions regarding labor practices and supply chain oversight.

An analysis of the growing reliance on self-checkout technology in grocery stores highlights deeper issues. Thinc Partners, a major marketing agent for automated kiosk providers, is complicit in promoting technology that replaces human labor and incorporates surveillance measures, raising ethical concerns about job security and privacy in a context of accelerating labor exploitation.