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Amazon already has same day deliver where I live. And there's a Whole Foods (Whole Paycheck) right here too. Will be interesting to see how they merge the two.
"Opinion: The mighty Amazon may soon go the way of the Roman Empire
So what happened to the mighty Roman Empire? You already know the answer. Why did the Roman Empire fall? The answer is that it overexpanded. Is Amazon overexpanding by taking over low-margin and a highly labor-intensive grocery business?
Rome did not fall in a day. My call is not for Amazon to decline right away. It’s to be alert to an inflection point in uber-bullishness about Amazon."
Sobeys supermarkets: The robots, which whiz up and down rows of stacked products piled up to 75 feet high for 20 hours a day, have resulted in reduced employee costs and quicker and more accurate deliveries, Sobeys says. It’s also allowed the Stellarton, N.S.-based grocer to double the amount of items that can be stored. One robot does the work of four employees
The company has spent between $100 million to $150 million on each of its robotics facilities. Seguin says retailers, especially those in the grocery industry, have been slow to adapt due to the high upfront investment costs.
Hudson’s Bay Company, said it was spending more than $60 million in robotic upgrades to its 725,000-square-foot Toronto distribution centre. Online orders that would’ve taken up to 2 ½ hours to locate and pack manually are being shipped out of the warehouse and onto a truck within 15 minutes.
and big European firms are moving in. a lot happening all at once.
The company, which has 10,000 locations in 27 countries, is hoping to win over Americans with its sweeping discounts, modern stores and carefully-curated wines. Its newest supermarkets are concentrated in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, but 90 more East Coast locations are planned for the coming year.
In an industry marked by cutthroat competition and mounting markdowns, Lidl executives say they plans to offer even larger discounts, with prices that are up to 50 percent lower than at rival stores.
Jeff Bezos had dinner with Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos also owns Washington Post. I wonder if they will lighten up on Trump for that. Ehh!!
Jeff is very anti American. He treat his workers like crap.
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