How Walmart’s Alphabot is Helping to Revolutionize Online Grocery Pickup and Deliver
Jan. 8, 2020
By TJ Stallbaumer
In Salem, New Hampshire,
a Walmart supercenter is rolling into the future. Alphabot, a first-of-its-kind piece of tech, is now fully operational and working with associates.
Its goal? To revolutionize the online grocery pickup and delivery process for associates and customers.
Developed specially for Walmart by startup Alert Innovation, Alphabot helps to enable quicker, more efficient order picking.
The system operates inside a 20,000-square-foot warehouse-style space, using autonomous carts to retrieve ambient, refrigerated and frozen items ordered for online grocery.
After it retrieves them, Alphabot delivers the products to a workstation, where a Walmart associate checks, bags and delivers the final order.
Walmart unveils a grocery-picking robot to take on Amazon and Kroger
Walmart on Wednesday unveiled a new automated system that picks and packs online grocery orders at high speeds.
The system, called Alphabot, will help Walmart take on Amazon and Kroger in the battle for shoppers’ grocery spending.
Alphabot operates in a 20,000 square-foot facility attached to a Walmart store.
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