
Watch Safeway's latest micro-fulfillment center in Northern California
Safeway’s new micro-fulfillment center in Citrus Heights, California, was completed earlier this year and features state-of-the-art technology and automation.

How robots will coexist with humans in the $800 billion restaurant business
Amid the great resignation, the future of autonomous systems in fast-food restaurants may not be as dystopian as we thought.

AUTONOMOUS GLOW-UP
The Program Executive Office for Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PEO ACWA) is charged with destroying the United States’ remaining chemical weapons stockpile, which is stored at U.S. Army installations in Colorado and Kentucky.

Robots are learning to think like humans. Can they meet Amazon’s demands for speed?
Robots are already working in warehouses, helping Amazon and Walmart customers get their orders faster, but e-commerce and retail leaders want them to do more. The jobs have already been assigned but some of the technology still needs to catch up.

Shekar Natarajan is using American Eagle as a base to Uberize the supply chain with a sharing mentality
Shekar Natarajan is trying to start a revolution — taking on retail logistics giants like Amazon and Walmart from his base at American Eagle Outfitters.

Tesla's highly automated 'Gigafactory Texas' opens today with epic Cyber Rodeo party
Tesla’s Elon Musk shares teasers of Giga Texas’ epic Cyber Rodeo venue.

Sizable Intelligrated conveyor system including high-speed shoe sorter for sale
Intelligrated is an industry leading manufacturer of conveyor systems with more than 100 years experience and thousands of installations. Intelligrated conveyor products are designed with a focus on maintenance and reliability.

Inside Amazon’s Unprecedented Strategy of Rolling Out Massive Warehouses
For e-commerce juggernaut Amazon, one of its recent efforts to build a mega-warehouse — slated to span about 3.8 million square feet in upstate New York — ended up on the scrap heap. But, like many setbacks in the company’s industrial property expansion, that defeat would prove short-lived.

Ocado CEO discusses the evolving competitive landscape and what’s ahead for online
Meeting rising online demand: An interview with Ocado’s Melanie Smith.

Kroger sees stores and automation as complementary parts to online fulfillment ecosystem
Kroger has spent a lot of time talking about the evolving network of automated e-commerce warehouses it’s building alongside Ocado, creating the impression that these robot-packed facilities are the future of digital fulfillment for the company.

Is e-commerce and social media the next big frontier for luxury fashion?
Amazon, Alibaba, TikTok, WeChat. These are just some of the biggest and most dynamic companies of today that are probing an uncertain new digital frontier in luxury.

Capex Rises As Companies Target Labor-Saving Technologies, Reshoring Supply Chains
Tight labor and supply chain bottlenecks are rattling businesses, but companies are responding by opening the taps to new capital spending. And the big capex stream should act as a tailwind for the U.S. economy in the next few years.

Walgreens opening 22 robot-powered micro-fulfillment centers across US
Inside of a large facility in the Dallas area, they fill thousands of prescriptions for customers who take medications to manage or treat high blood pressure, diabetes or other conditions. Each robot can fill 300 prescriptions in an hour.

It may not be possible to run a 15-minute delivery business that turns a profit
In the days leading up to Shoptalk, the annual e-commerce convention held this week in Las Vegas, nearly every on-demand delivery company wanted to make a splash.

Amazon Launches Into a New Era
Andy Jassy, who speaks in quiet tones and moves through Amazon’s Seattle headquarters in jeans, untucked button-downs, and sneakers, appears to be the polar opposite of his predecessor, who over the years transformed into a larger-than-life billionaire.

Ocado sure its bet on US will pay dividends
Kroger’s fulfilment centre in the small city of Monroe officially opened last April, nearly three years after an exclusive deal with Ocado was announced. In a high-viz jacket with “Ocado USA” on his back, Luke Jensen, the man directing the group’s march overseas, roams the site of its first step into the world’s largest economy.

Amazon aiming to deliver 500 million packages by drone a year
Amazon this year aims to recruit 1,300 test customers to place orders through its Prime Air drone-delivery program, a sign the company is inching closer to its vision of shipping packages via autonomous aerial vehicles.

Amazon is rethinking the role that Whole Foods plays in its store lineup
Amazon shuttering dozens of stores means Whole Foods is key to its physical strategy — and reveals a shift in how it lures in new Prime members, analysts say

Retailers are looking to move away from Instacart
The past several days have been a whirlwind for Instacart, and it now feels as if the company that has been such a foundational piece of the online grocery landscape is suddenly facing an uncertain future.

Instacart's rebrand reflects speedy evolution of grocery delivery
Instacart unveiled a brand refresh designed to reflect the evolving nature of the company and match the speedy growth of the grocery delivery landscape.