They are trying to increase the productivity of the stock crew when the store is closed, enabling them to shed a couple of relatively expensive overnight stocke

They are trying to increase the productivity of the stock crew when the store is closed, enabling them to shed a couple of relatively expensive overnight stockers per store. These robots won't be operated during business hours, but take over or make easier some of those stocker duties. The robot will scan the shelves in a pattern, followed by a stocker with a cart to collect all the misplaced items. It will print shelf labels, without the need for a stocker to use a cumbersome printer relatively slowly. It also to me seems it might be a way for them to in-house inventory control services like RGIS, using robots to replace human counters. If it can detect misplaced items, one day it might be able to count placed items.