To enhance its online
shopping service, Woolworths is rolling out miniature packing centres at
the back of its stores.
The supermarket giant has collaborated with a US-based
company called Takeoff Technologies. This firm is responsible to build the automated centres at its outlets. This
means that robots will be dealing with online orders. They will pick and pack
the products that consumers have ordered on the Internet. Brad Banducci, the CEO of Woolworths
advanced that this system would be particularly
advantageous to them. It would help
them meet customers’ growing demand for same-day delivery. He said that they
are constantly working on new ways to improve their clients’ online experience.
They are focussed on looking for faster ways to send e-shoppers their items.
Thus, this partnership will allow them to deliver convenience at a local level
and to be “even closer to the customer for that last mile delivery”. This new
service will be trialled at three outlets. It is expected that everything will
be set up within the next year.
Woolworths is investing a lot of funds into automation to
lower costs and make shopping more convenient. It already uses dark
stores. These are warehouses that are closed to the public. They are
for staff to pack online orders.
Woolworths
will be using robots to pack online orders
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