{"id":27585,"date":"2021-01-28T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27585"},"modified":"2021-01-28T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:05:08","slug":"who-did-not-see-this-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/28\/who-did-not-see-this-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Did Not See This Coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/27\/walmart-to-convert-dozens-of-stores-into-high-tech-warehouses\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Walmart to convert dozens of stores into high-tech warehouses<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Walmart said it will convert space at dozens of its stores into high-tech warehouse space as it expects a surge in online orders for pickup and delivery will persist beyond the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer said some store locations will get divvied up while others will get additional square footage to create on-site mini-fulfillment centers, in which automated robots roam the floor to retrieve certain items and bring them to an assembly work station.<\/p>\n<p>The robots will whittle the process of picking and packing orders down to \u201ca few minutes,\u201d Tom Ward, senior vice president of customer product in the US, said in a blog post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Personal shoppers will be used, however, to retrieve fresh food like meat and produce as well as bulkier items, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On occasion, when I have gone to Walmart, I seemed to see more associates picking orders than shoppers.  It wasn&#8217;t true, of course, but I wondered where the tipping point would come where Walmart would just close down the stores and turn them into warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>That time, apparently, is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart to convert dozens of stores into high-tech warehouses: Walmart said it will convert space at dozens of its stores into high-tech warehouse space as it expects a surge in online orders for pickup and delivery will persist beyond the pandemic. The Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer said some store locations will get divvied up while others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27586,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27585\/revisions\/27586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}