• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 days ago

    Ok, but robot pickers are expensive capital costs, and are set up to work in a warehouse environment with boxes, not a retail store full of soft goods and shelves. Unless you’re talking about recapitalizing the entire store to be a wearhouse, in which case there is a huge opportunity cost in regards to using good retail realestate for a warehouse.

    Gonna have to use human pickers unless the grocery store is willing to completely recapitalize and the margins might not justify the high cost of retail real estate.

    • GalacticRobot@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Thats the model Walmart is already moving to. It works well for Amazon, more and more retailers are going to consider it.