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Robots in retail | Shopify Retail blogYou enter your local hardware store in desperate search of paint. If you’re anything like me, you grimace at the sight of rows upon rows of lumber, lighting, and power tools.

What if a robot could help you find that paint? Now they can.

Robots are slowly invading retail.

Robots have been welding, assembling, and handling industrial materials for decades. But now other industries, including and especially retail, are seeing the value of robotics and automation and acting on it. So much so, that the BBC built a search engine that can predict the likelihood that your job be lost to a robot in the next two decades.

And now they’re coming to retail environments — but why?

The answer is simple. Humans have evolved to expect more from their buying experience, and retailers are looking to technology to help them deliver.

Here’s how robots can help retailers service the all-consuming consumer.

 

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