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Does Walmart need the same automation as Amazon? Does Walmart even need pickers or are they just filling up trucks with pallets and merchandise already packaged

• bluGill 6y ago
  They need something. They get a truck of toilet paper from the paper mill, and a truck of coffee from the roaster to the warehouse. What goes out of the warehouse is a 2 trucks to two different stores, each with half coffee, half toilet paper. I'm grossly simplifying the above, but the idea should be clear. WalMart doesn't store things in their warehouses so much as take them off of trucks and put a different mix of thing on other trucks. There is lots of room for automation, but it will look very different from Amazon.
• LeonB 6y ago
  There’s still a lot of individual item picking due to (as TFA mentions) > ...precise inventory is also essential for Walmart’s increasingly popular pickup and delivery services. ...and I can see highly accurate inventory helping that (and as a shopper I’d like it there was warehouse style ‘pick to light’ systems in supermarkets (perhaps using Augmented Reality))
  • nitrogen 6y ago
    warehouse style ‘pick to light’ systems Seriously, watching one person pick one order from retail shelves is kind of aggravstingly inefficient, when (and this is probably already starting to happen) they could have everything picked in bulk with an optimized path through the shelves for a batch of orders, then put-to-light each order.