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Woolworths to automate online grocery orders Share Woolworths hopes to slash the cost of online groceries and deliver more orders faster by building automated fulfilment centres to supplement orders picked from its supermarkets and “dark” stores. The first automated centralised fulfilment centre (CFC) will be built at a cost of more than $100 million in the densely populated suburb of Auburn, in Sydney’s western suburbs, and the retailer has not ruled out opening more as demand for online groceries soars. An image of Woolworths’ proposed automated centralised fulfilment centre in Aubu...

By George Nott2021-03-15T12:38:00+00:00 Space has opened up in out-of-town retail parks – and shoppers feel more comfortable there. So food retailers are moving in. But will the trend last? It wasn’t just the high street: in recent years, out-of-town retail has been in a sorry state. Retail park stalwarts like Carpetright, New Look and Homebase were forced into company voluntary arrangements (CVAs) to survive, while Toys R Us and Maplin plunged into administration. Even before Covid-19, retail park developments were grinding to a halt, down 15 to 20% year on year, according to a 2019 Cush...

Majid Al Futtaim automates fulfilment of online Carrefour orders DUBAI, 23 days ago Majid Al Futtaim, the leading shopping mall, has collaborated with eGrocery innovator Takeoff Technologies to launch an automated Micro Fulfillment Centre (MFC) at its Carrefour store in Ibn Battuta Mall.    A first-of-its-kind facility in the Middle East, the digitised storage picking facility automates the task of managing orders, slashing the time required to process them by half.    This is the first of three fulfillment centres to adopt advanced technologies and automation, with an additional tw...

Dive Brief: Albertsons is testing remote-controlled delivery carts developed by Tortoise, a Silicon Valley-based startup focused on automation systems for light electric vehicles, the grocery chain announced on Friday. The battery-powered vehicles, which travel at about 3 mph and have a 3-mile range, can each hold up to 120 pounds of groceries in four lockable compartments. A human escort will accompany the vehicles during the pilot, which Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko said started Feb. 24 at a pair of Safeway stores in Tracy and Windsor, California. Each store is currently operatin...

Carrefour Franchisee in UAE Automates Online Order Fulfillment March 5, 2021 at 9:54 AM EST By Nicole Silberstein Majid Al Futtaim, the exclusive franchisee of French hypermarket chain Carrefour in the United Arab Emirates, has opened a fully automated micro-fulfillment center (MFC) at the Carrefour store in Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai. Developed in partnership with Takeoff Technologies, the digitized storage picking facility automates the task of managing orders: All orders can be prepared within five minutes, and the average time between order placement and dispatch has b...