Walmart ends contract with robotics company, opts for human workers instead, report says

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

Should make the sub-50 IQ Biden voting Democrats happy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/02/walmart-ends-contract-with-robotics-
company-bossa-nova-report-says.html

Walmart has cut ties with Bossa Nova Robotics, which made robots that
scanned shelves for inventory, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The retailer has come up with other simple and cost-effective ways to
manage the products on its shelves with its human workers rather than the
robots, according to the report.

The company is still pushing forward with other tech experimentation and
recently picked four stores that will act as e-commerce laboratories.

At some Walmart stores, robots have roamed the sales floors and helped
check if shelves were stocked. But the big-box retailer has now decided to
end its contract with the robotics company behind those machines after
finding that people can do about the same work, according to a report by
The Wall Street Journal.

The report, which cited unnamed people familiar with the situation, said
Walmart recently cut ties with Bossa Nova Robotics. A Walmart spokesperson
told the Journal that about 500 robots were in Walmart’s more than 4,700
stores when the contract ended.

Walmart has seen significant growth during the coronavirus pandemic, as
Americans buy toilet paper, canned goods, puzzles and more. The company’s
online sales nearly doubled in the second quarter, as consumers shipped
purchases to their homes and retrieved them by curbside. That’s created a
new challenge for the big-box retailer — quickly restocking shelves and
making sure it has the right inventory on hand.

In a recent interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Walmart CEO Doug McMillon
said sporadic out-of-stocks have continued to be a problem. He said that
if he could change one thing about Walmart’s business, it would be “to
have an even higher in-stock level.”

According to the Journal’s report, Walmart has come up with simple and
cost-effective ways to manage the products on its shelves with the help of
its workers rather than using the robots. The report said Walmart U.S.
Chief Executive John Furner also worried about shoppers’ reactions to the
robots.

Walmart is pressing ahead with other tech-based experimentation, however.
Last week, the retailer said it would turn four stores into e-commerce
laboratories that test digital tools and different strategies that could
speed up restocking shelves and fulfilling online orders.

Read the full story in The Wall Street Journal.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmart-shelves-plan-to-have-robots-scan-
shelves-11604345341


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