Walmart to purchase e-grocery automated warehouse technology

Walmart signed a definitive agreement to buy Alert Innovation, a robotics e-grocery fulfillment technology provider. The mass merchant plans to use Alert Innovation’s technology to power Walmart’s 4,700 U.S-based store locations as market fulfillment centers (MFCs) for online orders. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Alert Innovation began its relationship with Walmart in 2016. […] The post Walmart to purchase e-grocery automated warehouse technology appeared first on Digital Commerce 360.