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Schnucks Brings Aisle-Scanning Robots to More Than Half Its Stores
For supermarket employees trying to keep track of thousands of individual products on store shelves and quickly replace items that run out, Simbe’s Tally robots are a sight for sore eyes.
Equipped with sensors that record the contents of grocery shelves from top to bottom, the devices scoot around stores on their own, said Dave Steck, vice president of IT infrastructure and development for Schnucks.
A single robot assigned to a store can identify up to 14 times as many out-of-stock items as a human worker and has the ability to easily see items on high and low shelves that may be difficult for a person to access, Steck said. That allows associates in Tally-equipped stores, who would have otherwise have had to manually look for items that need to be replaced, to instead spend their time working with customers or bringing products from the backroom to store aisles.
Read more at Grocery Dive.
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