Are skyscraper warehouses the key to urban grocery fulfillment?

This is an excerpt from Monday’s (4/5) Point of Sale retail supply chain newsletter sponsored by ArcBest.

Building automated grocery fulfillment systems powered by busy swarms of robots has gone sci-fi to science over the past decade, but it remains prohibitively expensive. In addition to the costs of advanced robotics and accompanying software, real estate costs can balloon into the millions of dollars in urban neighborhoods that have the population density and income levels to support such a...

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