Five ways automation will impact grocery retail: The race is on
There is much debate about how grocery retailing will evolve over the next 5-10 years – and how much shopper behavior will actually change as a result of online grocery – but it’s safe to say that leveraging automation will be one of the ways brick and mortar supermarkets evolve their models to remain viable and profitable. Machines of all shapes and sizes will do at least some of the repetitive work previously executed by people in grocery.
Varner, one of northern Europe’s largest fashion groups, has chosen AutoStore
The expansion means that the existing AutoStore facility – an automated robotic solution for bins – is growing from today’s 60,000 bins to 116,000 bins and will be equipped with a total of 224 robots.
As part of the collaboration with AutoStore, a new design of workstations for pick and pack, storage, returns and hanging garment handling has been developed.