On the Market: Starship Technologies Delivery Robots

VINCENT TEETSOV

At one point, home delivery of groceries seemed inconceivable. We couldn’t rely on grocery stores to manage the shopping lists of thousands of customers each day, at least not with a reliable schedule. Supply chain management was difficult enough on an incoming basis, importing a wide range of food and home products from around the world and then distributing to each grocery store so that customers received those goods at peak levels of freshness.

Grocery shopping was once an errand that took a shopper throughout their neighbourhood. Greengrocer, check. Butcher, check. Bakery, check. Best Buy... well, actually, you can ignore that last one; but shopping was a multi-step process, and so the one-stop grocery store was as convenient as it could get. Though, this convenience removed the social component of running errands and encountering the same proprietors each time.

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