1. Operations & Supply Chain

BJ’s to roll out inventory robots chainwide

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The club retailer is following grocers including Schnuck Markets, Hy-Vee and The Save Mart Companies in deploying Simbe Robotics’s automated vehicles, which use computer vision-driven cameras to scan shelves.

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