Having spent a career in and around retailing, I can see huge benefits to store operators - and hence ultimately to customers - in this kind of development.
It enables stores to suffer fewer missing items and to offer better quality product more frequently.
It also adds to effectiveness and efficiency of the behind the scenes logistics. And that all adds up to lower operating costs and lower prices for the customer.
But it doesn’t yet meet a big, costly and never ending challenge faced by store owners which is the human effort needed to get the products from the back room of the store and onto the shelf!! A big task not yet automated.
Having spent a career in and around retailing, I can see huge benefits to store operators - and hence ultimately to customers - in this kind of development.
It enables stores to suffer fewer missing items and to offer better quality product more frequently.
It also adds to effectiveness and efficiency of the behind the scenes logistics. And that all adds up to lower operating costs and lower prices for the customer.
But it doesn’t yet meet a big, costly and never ending challenge faced by store owners which is the human effort needed to get the products from the back room of the store and onto the shelf!! A big task not yet automated.
Always great hearing an expert's opinion on this! Thanks for sharing Clive 🙌
Great point about the effort required to restock the shelves. I'll do some research and see if any company is tackling that problem.