{"id":5490,"date":"2021-07-05T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T04:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2021-07-08T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T23:31:32","slug":"goodbye-grocery-stores-and-warehouse-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5490","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye grocery stores and warehouse jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ssZ_8cqfBlE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ocado&#8217;s grocery warehouses in the UK don&#8217;t have people in them filling your orders. They consist of thousands of mechanical boxes that move all over the hive &#8211; a grid in which each box contains a specific product &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They even have special robots for packing special situations since you don&#8217;t want to put a heavy item like a gallon of milk into the same bag as all your soft chips. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honestly, this is almost certainly what we&#8217;ll be doing very soon; and in 10 years we won&#8217;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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Ocado&#8217;s technology here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ocadogroup.com\/technology\/technology-pioneers\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ocadogroup.com\/technology\/technology-pioneers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocado&#8217;s grocery warehouses in the UK don&#8217;t have people in them filling your orders. They consist of thousands of mechanical boxes that move all over the hive &#8211; a grid in which each box contains a specific product &#8211; 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&#8217;t want to put a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=5490\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1qy","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5493,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}