The Technology 202: Drones in Aisle 5? Grocery stores are becoming unusual hotbeds of innovation
the retail-sales labor force will grow over the decade between 2016 and 2026, although more slowly than average.
Pensa CEO Richard Schwartz says it’s developments such as these that make grocery stores “ground zero” for the blurring of the online and offline worlds. He identified several forces within the industry that have resulted in a swelling of innovation: “Amazon is right behind all of this, waking everybody up and basically challenging the industry to find an effective way to do that end-to-end delivery to the consumer with more combinations and more instant gratification,” Pensa said.
The store has enough processing power to download three years’ worth of music each second, Walmart said. For a recent example of stores implementing technology poorly, Knuti pointed to Marty, the googly-eyed, 7-foot-tall, robot patrolling grocery stores up and down the East Coast.
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