Grocery Dive
November 2020
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Brad Bogolea, co-founder and CEO of Simbe Robotics, which specializes in inventory-scanning robots, took a different view. He said Walmart may not have deployed the robots it was using across enough of its stores to accurately determine how to merge the information the devices gathered with its other inventory-tracking techniques.
“Walmart has been an early mover historically with lots of terrific technologies ... but I think one of the problems [the retailer] had was they focused so much on the robot that they didn’t really think about whether this technology could be operationalized,” said Bogolea, whose robots are in use by a range of retailers in multiple countries, including grocery chains Schnuck Markets and Giant Eagle.
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