It’s Tuesday, and it’s time to round up the top stories we are talking about at RetailWit HQ…
Walmart adds high-tech fulfillment center
Earlier this year we heard Walmart talk about adding additional supply chain capacity; today they announced a 925,000 square-foot automated fulfillment center in Lebanon, Tennessee. The facility will store millions of items to be shipped directly to customers as soon as next-day. The new fulfillment center will be manned by a unique combination of associates, AI-software and automated robots that work together to ship orders to customers even faster – as the fleet of automated robots to navigate a compact storage system to retrieve products and bring them to associates for packing and shipping.
Publix is expanding their presence in Kentucky
Really interesting to see these two join forces, as they both find themselves looking up at their competition. “This is a natural combination of two like-minded, challenger brands with outstanding growth opportunities,” Jack in the Box CEO Darin Harris said in a statement. “Together, Jack in the Box and Del Taco will benefit from a stronger financial model, gaining greater scale to invest in digital and technology capabilities and unit growth for both brands.” Couldn’t have said it better ourselves, looking forward to see what happens in 2022.
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