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Takeoff Technologies launched its first grocery automated fulfillment center in the fall of 2018. Needless to say, a lot has happened in the grocery space since then, including a global […]
Albertsons is adding more micro-fulfillment centers (MFC) from Takeoff Technologies in an effort to keep up with grocery e-commerce, according to a story in Supermarket News. Takeoff Technologies’ MFCs use […]
Anyone who has tried to order groceries online in the past month knows how backed up the supermarkets are. Amazon has implemented a waitlist for grocery delivery, ShopRite has virtual […]
Grocery retailer Albertsons and Takeoff Technologies announced today that they are forming a strategic partnership with a dedicated teams to “collaborate on the evolution of microfulfillment,” according to the press […]
Loblaws, Canada’s largest grocery chain, announced this week that it was piloting Takeoff Technologies‘ robot-powered micro-fulfillment center in one of its stores. Supermarket News reports that the two companies have […]
We’ve written a lot about micro-fulfillment as an emerging trend to watch in grocery retail. Micro-fulfillment involves a store building out a robot-driven system in the back of house to […]
Takeoff Technologies, which builds automated microfulfillment centers for grocery retailers, announced today that it has raised a $25 million Series C round of funding led by Forrestal Capital. This brings […]
Wakefern Food Corp. announced yesterday that it has partnered with Takeoff Technologies to build an automated fulfillment center in Cliffton, NJ. The center will fulfill orders for online shoppers at […]
Albertsons announced today it will pilot a new micro-fulfillment center in one of its grocery stores using Takeoff‘s robot-powered technology. The deal marks the first time a nationwide grocery chain […]
This fall, startup Takeoff will be launching its first hyperlocal grocery micro-fulfillment center powered by robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Whew! There’s a lot to unpack in that opener, mostly because Takeoff […]
So what items flew off the shelves last year when it came to drone delivery? According to Flytrex, a company specializing in backyard drone delivery, the most popular item ordered […]
Instacart announced today a new multi-year partnership with Fabric that will see the two companies jointly offer automated order fulfillment services to North American grocery retailers. The new automated fulfillment […]
