

"With its ergonomic design, you get 100% golden zone single-level picking," they say.

It's really impressive." Organising things this way saves space and time, and creates a safer workplace, according to Dematic, the company that built Tesco's robots. "It looks really whizzy and there's crates moving around. "It's a little bit like I imagine going into a Willy Wonka factory," says Jennifer Creevy, deputy editor of Retail Week. The robot extracts whatever is needed and brings it to the picker, who stands still (until it's time to visit the freezer). Instead of laying out the groceries in aisles, at Erith they store most of them more efficiently in towers of blue crates. At Tesco's sixth and newest dark store in Erith, south-east London, they operate what is basically a giant robot butler, although they call it a "goods-to-person pickstation" and a "dotcom centre" (the supermarkets themselves aren't keen on the term "dark store").
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Inside, professional pickers roll baskets around the aisles much like civilians, except they are wrapped up in coats and scarves against the refrigeration system.Įlsewhere, they look like nothing you've ever seen. In Hanger Lane, west London, Waitrose operates a dark store in an old John Lewis carpet warehouse. Sometimes they look almost creepily similar to normal supermarkets.
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A dark store is just a warehouse full of groceries where staff called "pickers" select the goods that have been ordered by an online customer. Well, there's a new future now: the "dark store", the supermarket that we never see at all.ĭon't be too alarmed by the name, or too excited. D o you remember what the future of shopping used to be? In place of a trundle round the high street every few days, we were going to make weekly trips to big-box supermarkets outside town, delight in the bright produce and the enticing smells and drive home happy, our cars low on their axles.
