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Kroger launches autonomous grocery delivery service in Arizona [arstechnica.com]

Starting today, residents of Scottsdale, Arizona have the opportunity [kroger.com] to receive autonomous grocery deliveries from Fry's Food Stores—a brand owned by grocery giant Kroger. The technology is supplied by Nuro [arstechnica.com], a self-driving vehicle startup founded by two veterans of Google's self-driving car project. We profiled the company [arstechnica.com] in May.

Kroger says that deliveries will have a flat $5.95 delivery fee, and customers can schedule same-day or next-day deliveries. Initially, the deliveries will be made by Nuro's fleet of modified Toyota Priuses with a safety driver behind the wheel. But Kroger expects to start using Nuro's production model—which doesn't even have space for a driver—this fall.

Kroger [wikipedia.org] is the United States's largest supermarket chain by revenue, the second-largest general retailer (behind Walmart), and the eighteenth largest company in the United States.

Previously: An Unmanned Car May Soon Deliver Your Kroger Groceries [soylentnews.org]

Related: Walmart and Waymo to Trial Driverless Shuttle Service in Phoenix for Grocery Pickups [soylentnews.org]

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