Manufacturing businesses have embraced e-commerce because it streamlines the process of purchasing and selling components and products to other businesses.

All eyes might be on the on-demand grocery startups right now. But the old guard of food delivery startups — Glovo, Delivery Hero, Deliveroo, Wolt and Bolt — aren’t just rolling over

As labor shortages strain the manufacturing and supply chain sectors, business leaders need to realize the value of the robot expert and how they can help solve these challenges.

With a near monopoly on delivery, Amazon is understandably keen to make the job easier. The latest idea that may or may not eventually see the light of day is a new patent for a system where delivery vans would carry items almost to their destination, then send out and direct ground drones to do the final drop-off.

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Sam’s Club announced Tuesday it is testing a new app-based feature, Scan & Ship, that allows people to use a smartphone to buy items in the club and send purchases directly to the home.

Tyson Foods has spent more than $500 million on technology and automation at its meat and poultry plants during the past three years to improve worker safety and bridge a labor gap that has grown due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Walgreens executives emphasize the effects of automating the labor it takes to dispense orders is the selling point for its strategy.

The online delivery specialist said it was planning to open more automated warehouses to meet elevated customer demand as it reported a 21 per cent year-on-year jump in first-half revenues to £1.32bn.

In Ocado's grocery warehouses, thousands of mechanical boxes move on the Hive. Are they all individual robots? Or is this one giant hive mind?

The rapid growth of e-commerce fulfillment volumes in the wake of the pandemic—coupled with labor shortages, labor capacity restrictions, and social distancing requirements—has driven lasting changes to the warehouse fulfillment landscape.

The expected rapid expansion by grocers of MFC technology, which seems made for the moment with its focus on quickly and efficiently assembling online orders in tight spaces, has not materialized at the level many expected.

Kroger's latest push to grow home delivery through an alliance with the United Kingdom's Ocado using a planned network of highly-automated warehouses will offer home delivery to 75% of American households.

Walmart has built technology to make the next best choice.

Kroger is betting its automated fulfillment centers and hub-and-spoke model will gain it a competitive advantage in Florida, but the bet has required a significant upfront investment.

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Bert and Ernie, Scooter and Kermit may have started out as warm and fuzzy Muppet characters, but now they’re part of Amazon’s team of warehouse robots as well.

Companies are springing up all over the UK promising to deliver whatever you want in as little as 10 minutes. But what could we lose by never popping out for milk again?