Posted on 08/23/2018 6:34:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There could be a future where robots will do most of your grocery shopping for you. And for some Walmart shoppers, that future is getting even closer.
Walmart (WMT), the world’s largest seller of groceries, will begin piloting a robotics system for its fast-growing online grocery pickup (OGP) service in one of its stores. The retailer has teamed up with Massachusetts-based Alert Innovation to deploy its Alphabot, a first-of-its-kind technology, in its supercenter store in Salem, New Hampshire just off of Interstate 93.
“This is about the evolution of retail,” Alert Innovation CEO John Lert told Yahoo Finance. “So, we believe that this really marks the dawn of a new era and in which robots are going to increasingly pick orders for customers and relieve them of that burden.”
Alphabot automates specific steps of the online grocery pickup process by using autonomous mobile carts to gather shelf-stable, refrigerated, and frozen items from a high-density storage system. Alphabot’s robotic carts retrieve and deliver these items to store associates to quickly fulfill online orders. What’s more, all of this happens at the back of the store, out of the view of customers....
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One more thing I like about WM grocery pickup. If you order something they don’t have, eg, 1 dozen Eggland’s Best Eggs @ $2.62, they will substitute with 18 Eggland’s Best Eggs at the price of 1 dozen/$2.62. Ditto for other items.
“Believe it or not WalMart has almost brutal standards for Produce and meat. “
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when my oldest was working through college, he was assistant manager at Walmart. He said the same thing, their standards on meat and produce were second only to SAM’s club.
In addition, his friend worked at SAM’s (right next door), and he said at 6am (before SAM’s opens to the public) all the restaurants load up at SAM’s. Sam’s has the best meats around Chicagoland. Even what you as a SAM’s member get (which has been picked over by the restaurants early in the morning) is way better than our Jewel foods or any butcher in the area.
We use a Hungarian / Polish butcher for things like sausages and smoked/specialty meats though.
At least that is how it is around here, not sure about other states.
They’re called “millenials”. Do not approach. They bite.
“BUT IT’S ONLY FOR GROCERIES!!!!”
I’ve tested it and bought a few items that weren’t groceries (charcoal lighter, a folding camp chair). Try searching for what you want, you might be surprised.
Sounds like it might just be my store
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