Delivering Coffee And Groceries To Consumers With Automation

By  |  January 13, 2020
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Bringing Coffee And Groceries With Automation

Coffee retailers are driving ordering innovation with digital technology. Luckin Coffee, for its part, is entering the automated retail market with the rollout of a smart unmanned coffee machine and a smart vending machine. And in other automation news, big-box retail is innovating with the help of robots. Walmart, in one case, is aiming to solidify its position as America’s biggest grocer with a robot called Alphabot. All this, Today in Data.

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    Today in DataData:

    4,507: Number of self-operated locations of Luckin at the close of last year.

    3,600: Number of Starbucks locations in China as of last August.

    593: Number of new stores Luckin opened in the second quarter of last year.

    56 percent: Share of Walmart’s total U.S. revenue made up of supermarket sales.

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    10: Number of times faster that automated grocery systems like Alphabot can reportedly pick and pack orders.


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