WALMART WANTS TO INTRODUCE NEW ROBOTIC EMPLOYEES
Walmart has decided to expand their network towards friendly store robots.
Robotic employees have been roaming the aisles of Walmart in Arkansas, Pennsylvania and California for the past three years. The retail corporation told CNN that they are going to expand to locations in El Paso, Fort Worth in Texas and Jacksonville Florida.
The robots will arrive by the end of January and will expand Walmart's program to over 50 stores in total. Walmart has spent the past few years doing everything and anything it can to speed up its infrastructure and beat back Amazon. Customer interaction is one of the primary ways in which Walmart will always edge out its faceless online rivals. Delegating menial tasks such as scanning for mislabeled items to machines allows humans more time to focus on customer experience, according to the company.
Walmart's recent innovations have aimed to remove the human element from the mundane aspect of retail and claims that the robots are here to assist employees and not replace them.
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