Many are concerned that robots and other new technologies will lead to large-scale displacement of human workers and thus that a “robot tax” is potentially a good policy tool to address this effect. However, the existing research suggests that firms adopting robots actually experience an increase in employment, undercutting a main argument in favor of a robot tax.

Respondents from the Accenture survey who reported that they were “future-ready” were twice as efficient and three times more profitable than their underprepared peers. A key way to achieve this level of preparedness is to optimize processes wherever you can — especially in the procurement function.

The availability of workers became Amazon’s primary challenge in keeping packages moving smoothly through its system in the third quarter, not the normal limiters of storage space or fulfillment capacity.

As Walmart uses technology to be a leader in retail disruption, Kumar pointed to several areas the company is exploring that it sees as the most disruptive technology in the coming years.

The integration, which means some products will be shipped directly from adidas and Reebok to Very customers, delivered the retailer’s biggest ever drop of new product lines.

Uber is taking on Europe’s buzzy grocery delivery start-ups with a service in Paris that ships essential items to shoppers’ doors in as little as 15 minutes.

In the fully automated high bay warehouse, 41 meters high, up to 125 000 pallets can be stored at a constant temperature of 18°C.

Built by UK online supermarket pioneer Ocado, the washing-machine sized bots have caught the eye of international retailers battling a shortage of workers and rising wage demands in a post-pandemic world.

Online grocery sales will surpass 20% of the overall U.S. grocery retail market in the next five years, at least several years before pre-pandemic projections, a new Mercatus/Incisiv study predicts.

With Amazon Local Selling, sellers can quickly and easily expand their multichannel offerings by listing products in Amazon’s store and offering them to local customers in designated areas for in-store pickup on the same day that they place an order. When making an order, customers can select in-store pickup and receive a notification when it is ready that day. Or, they can choose fast local delivery by the seller.

Amazon's biggest, newest warehouse, with more robots than ever, brings America closer to an automated future when machines do all the work of moving everything from groceries to laptops, from makers to users. And do it faster.

A wave of ultrafast delivery companies has entered New York City and turned the city into a test ground for how fast consumers want groceries and other goods.

The IKEA Covina LA store, located in the Los Angeles region in the U.S., introduced a new warehouse automation system that vastly improves order fulfillment

We believe that during the next decades, probably 75% to 80% of the warehouses will be automated, and that brings a market that will grow strongly for many decades to come.

At BFI4 outside Seattle, the retailer uses algorithms and robots to ship more than a million packages a day—vastly changing the jobs of humans in the process.

James Matthews, CEO of the company’s technology division, revealed the next generation of its robotic platform will work in spaces “down to the single-digit hundreds of square metres”.

Drones will soon be buzzing overhead in Dallas-Fort Worth, bearing small containers filled with Tylenol and Band-Aids. Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is bringing its drone delivery service to the Texas city, its first densely populated market.

Albertsons Cos. is moving ahead with its omnichannel expansion but has pushed some of its expected micro-fulfillment center (MFC) openings into next year, according to CEO Vivek Sankaran.

Delivery Hero, the world's leading local delivery platform, today announced that it has invested USD 235 million in the Berlin-based on-demand delivery startup Gorillas Technologies.