More than 1,000 Walmart locations will soon feature new automated technologies:
Autonomous shelf scanners promise faster and more accurate inventory management. The technology, which roams aisles and scans them to track what's out of stock, mislabeled, or mispriced, is dubbed"Auto-S" and will be added to 300 stores, giving it a presence in a total of 350 locations. Auto-S isto be three times faster and two times as accurate as a human conducting the same tasks, helping Walmart keep its stores better stocked and organized.
Automated conveyor belts can speed up the unloading process for deliveries at stores. The conveyor belts, called"FAST Unloaders," scan and sort items as they come off delivery trucks, taking both their department and priority into account. FAST Unloaders are being introduced at 1,200 new stores, reaching 1,700 overall, where they can potentiallythe number of workers required to unload a truck from eight to four and help complete the process faster.
Pickup Towers facilitate in-store pickup of online orders. The 16-foot-high towers — which will be added to 900 stores, possibly bringing the tech to as many asin total — serve as vending machines for buy online, pickup in-store orders; consumers can place orders online and retrieve them from the in-store towers by scanning a unique barcode from Walmart . This creates a simple in-store pickup process for consumers, which may make them more likely to use Walmart's BOPIS options regularly.
Automating tasks enables Walmart to spend less on labor and deploy associates in ways where they can make more direct impacts on consumers' shopping experiences. Instead of hiring associates to clean floors, the retailer can place them in mostly consumer-facing roles, like customer service and at . This, when combined with quality omnichannel solutions and more efficiently run locations, can create stores that consumers want to visit regularly, making Walmart's thousands of stores more valuable assets.1. Sign up for the E-Commerce Briefing to get it delivered to your inbox 6x a week. >>pass to Business Insider Intelligence and gain immediate access to the E-Commerce Briefing, plus more than 250 other expertly researched reports.
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