This is true of most food retailers in the US, as well. Most forays into automated ordering have ended poorly due to cascading issues with the electronic invent

This is true of most food retailers in the US, as well. Most forays into automated ordering have ended poorly due to cascading issues with the electronic inventory getting out of sync with reality. Whole contracting companies exist to reconcile physical and electronic inventories, and this is mostly done for accounting purposes rather than to aid automation.