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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the argueing-about-brown-lettuce dept.

Most people don't buy a jar of relish every week. But when they decide to buy one from Ocado—the world's largest online-only grocery retailer—they don't have to scrabble at the back of the store. Instead, they call on robots and artificial intelligence to have it delivered to their door.

Ocado claims that its 350,000-square-foot warehouse in Dorden, near the U.K.'s second [most populous] city of Birmingham, is more heavily automated than Amazon's warehouse facilities. The company's task is certainly more challenging in many respects: most of the 48,000 lines of goods that it sells are perishable, and many must be chilled or frozen. Some, such as sushi, must be delivered on the same day they arrive in the warehouse.

What if the produce is buggy?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:03AM (#448031)
  • (Score: 2) by migz on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:35AM

    by migz (1807) on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:35AM (#448099)

    They are an online only supermarket. I don't see what those links have to do with Ocado.

    One difference is Ocado is making a profit. It doesn't do anything else. Unlike IBM, and amazon, who are cross subsidising things, they are also competing with the bricks and mortar stores.