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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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:18AM
Kill Your Neighborhood Economy
Kill Your Neighbors
Kill Your Self
(Score: 3, Interesting) by migz on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:49AM
Don't be silly.
If your neighbours are more expensive, and don't offer anything better, then YOU won't buy from them. And vice-versa.
The supermarket displaced the local stores, because it was cheaper and more convenient. This is no different, Luddite.
Once upon a time most people were involved in agriculture, because we needed that to survive. Today we produce far more with a fraction of humanity devoted to this task. We have plenty of food, cheaply available.
The same thing happened with manufacturing. We used have labour intensive manufacturing. Today we produce far more with a fraction of the people. We have plenty of manufactured goods, cheaply available.
Today you no longer have to spend the majority of your income on food, just to live. You can choose what you want to eat, and buy lots of iJunk, that would never exist, never mind be affordable, and still have time to moan on the interwebs.
Change is painful, but you cannot progress without it.
Also pick in season from the browse menu to buy seasonally. :P