Despite Walmart’s better-than-expected earnings results, Reuters reported earlier this week that the mega-retailer is asking 16,000 pharmacists nationwide to voluntarily cut hours in an effort to conserve margins. According to the article, possible offers range from reducing an 80-hour two-week work period to 64 or...
Amazon and Walmart are hoping new tech will make the holidays a little less difficult. While no one thought 2022’s busy season was ever going to be easy, the embrace and use of new digital processes — in stores, websites and warehouses — by the...
Operating over half a million robotic drive units and more than a dozen other robotic systems in its facilities around the world, Amazon’s eCommerce business is deeply invested in robotics technology. Related: Amazon Launches $1B Robotics, Logistics Fund But building out that robot empire has...
Cathryn Kachura is a a “flow control specialist” at Amazon’s Denver, Colorado sortation center, an extra-large warehouse that is informally known as the “robot highway.” Flow control specialists are the traffic agents on the highway, and their job is to keep real-time track of the...
September 01, 2023
Despite Walmart’s better-than-expected earnings results, Reuters reported earlier this week that the mega-retailer is asking 16,000 pharmacists nationwide to voluntarily cut hours in an effort to conserve margins. According to the article, possible offers range from reducing an 80-hour two-week work period to 64 or 72 hours, even as Walmart ramps up its pharmacy services. […]
June 05, 2019
Amazon said it has deployed 200,000 robotic drives around the globe, according to a report by TechCrunch. The remarks were made at the company’s re:MARS conference in Las Vegas by Robotics VP Brad Porter. Earlier in the year, the company said it had 100,000 robot systems throughout its 25 fulfillment centers in the U.S. Amazon […]
