Walmart’s Alphabot Robot Is The Beautiful First Letter Of A New Retail Language

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        Walmart plans to partner with startup Alert Innovation to deploy “first of its kind automation to help associates fill online grocery orders faster than ever before.” The robotic automation technology, what it calls Alphabot, will arrive via a test in one of its New Hampshire stores by the end of the current year. The plan is to utilize an adjacent 20,000 square foot warehouse extension to the store and to test robotic storage and retrieval of Walmart’s buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS) and ship-from-store grocery orders.

        Walmart should be applauded for this test. Three key observations stand out:

        It’s About Efficiency
        It’s About Micro-Warehousing
        It’s (Possibly) About The Future
        
        
        
        

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