Probably so. And, ultimately, delivered to your home by a self-driving vehicle.
I don’t buy many groceries at Walmart. I get better prices at Kroger and Meijer. I’ve been told, though, that their online ordering system for general merchandise is solid.
Almost all grocery stores are offering delivery services now. I suppose eventually they will be delivered via drones and/or robots.
The model is wrong.
Instead of running robots around a random environment guaranteeing poor quality service, set up an organized no human facing robot friendly warehouse to handle the automated SIDE of the business.
Walmart pickup is kind of misleading. They’ve gone through all the trouble of pointing people to pickup at the front of the store. All orange signs pointing that way. BUT IT’S ONLY FOR GROCERIES!!!! Order any other merch and trudge to the back of the store to pick it up. Bah.
Will these robot pickers be roaming the aisles and picking orders while in store customers are pushing their carts around doing their own shopping? It’ll just about have to be that way if Walmart plans to offer this pickup service at all its super-centers.
Just have a warehouse with robots compiling orders that are then delivered on refrigerated trucks.
Wow, a better idea popped in my head just on seeing this headline.
How about customer-operated drone-carts so one can shop at home but pick out what they REALLY want? IOW, same as shopping in person, but via camera-on-robot.
Problems still crop up with this on-line catalog ordering trend, including not being sure which is the right thing, and/or not being able to get a feel for the real product (such as something one has never actually tried before) such as size/weight.
If people could grab a robo-drone-cart and drive it around the store and pick up stuff themselves, I’d bet sales would actually go up from “on-line”.
More people without jobs.
They’re called “millenials”. Do not approach. They bite.