Goodbye grocery stores and warehouse jobs

Goodbye grocery stores and warehouse jobs

Ocado’s grocery warehouses in the UK don’t have people in them filling your orders. They consist of thousands of mechanical boxes that move all over the hive – a grid in which each box contains a specific product – and pick up your items and then deliver them to the shipping services at the edges. A grocery order can be filled in 5 hours.

They even have special robots for packing special situations since you don’t want to put a heavy item like a gallon of milk into the same bag as all your soft chips.

Honestly, this is almost certainly what we’ll be doing very soon; and in 10 years we won’t be making trips to the grocery store. Since COVID, many of us are already using automated checkout. in-store shoppers, and web order with pick up.

One of the use cases we talked about with autonomous cars was that they could drive themselves to the store, be loaded up, and then drive back to your place.

Read more about Ocado’s technology here: https://www.ocadogroup.com/technology/technology-pioneers

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