Downward angle icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. The exterior of a recently completed grocery distribution center in Lancaster, Texas. Walmart Walmart is America’s grocery king, selling more food than the next two largest companies combined. The retailer relies heavily on AI to get fresh produce on shelves faster. Take a look inside Walmart’s state-of-the-art fresh food distribution center.
Walmart is the largest grocery store in the United States, with more shoppers buying their groceries there than at any other retailer.
To keep the shelves of its 4,600 U.S. stores well-stocked, the retailer relies on a vast network of 42 regional distribution centers that receive and sort palletized goods.
Walmart on Wednesday unveiled one of its most advanced, AI-powered refrigerated warehouses designed to handle perishable goods like meat, dairy, and produce.
The company said construction on two new facilities has been completed and three more are underway, while five existing fresh produce distribution centres are also being upgraded with the technology.
Let’s see how it works:
The machine picks up the pallet and scans the contents…
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“We know in near real time what inventory we have, how much, where it is,” Dave Gugina, Walmart’s executive vice president of supply chain, told CNBC, “and we do that at a much higher level than we were able to achieve with manual processes or legacy software.”
