How Robots and Military-Grade Algorithms Make Same-Day Delivery Possible
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Key themes:
Store to door
- Predictive stocking
- 7-11 lockers
- Man+ machine integration in picking right items and humans figuring out quality
- City as a warehouse (how ebay has participants from Walgreens to radioshack to THD)
- Couriers (with mobile app tracking)
Forget next-day delivery. The standard in online shopping is rapidly
approaching next-hour delivery. Retail giants Walmart, Amazon, and eBay, and a
few nimble startups, are testing same-day services, bringing whatever you
desire—ice cream, toothpaste, a new TV—to your door, right now. To make it
happen, the sellers are revving up supply chains that rely on algorithms of
military-grade complexity and workers (human and robot) who roam vast
distribution centers 24/7. The trillion-dollar online shopping economy is about
to get bigger—and a lot faster.
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