Instacart, the service-based company that allows customers to have their groceries ordered from home and then delivered, has seen massive growth since the lockdowns beginning in 2020. Instacart employs roughly about 500,000 employees. You may have seen some of these employees at participating stores such as Costco.
But now the company is looking to replace those employees with robots.
ZeroHedge refers to a report by the Financial Times where Instacart indicated it wants to build and expand with 50 autonomous robotic warehouses.
Last spring, Instacart sent out proposal requests to at least five companies that offer robotic systems that would pick goods from purpose-built “dark” warehouses instead of store shelves.
Financial Times
Sources says,
Instacart had initially expressed a desire to open as many as 50 robot-driven warehouses across the US in about a year.
According to supply-chain consultant Brittain Ladd, Instacart’s ultimate goal is to become an “online grocery retailer and leverage micro-fulfillment centers to fulfill their orders.”
While we have no updates to share today, we’re constantly evaluating our services in deep partnership with the nearly 600 retailers we work with. Instacart’s entire product and model is predicated on being a chief ally to our retail partners.
We’re committed to supporting our brick-and-mortar partners and continuing to invest in and explore new tools and technologies that support the needs of their customers and further enable their businesses to grow and scale over the long term.
Instacart to the Financial Times
The WinePress has previously reported that Walmart and Amazon are looking to do more of the same, along with new robots that will eventually replace the forklift that requires a physical driver to operate.
Fruit-Picking Drones
The Israeli-based company Tevel Aerobotics Technologies has developed a flying autonomous robot (FAR) that works 24 hours a day picking apples from the trees.
The FAR robot can work 24 hours a day and picks only ripe fruit. It uses AI perception algorithms to locate the trees and vision algorithms to detect the fruit among the foliage and classify its size and ripeness. After choosing the right fruit, the robot then works out the best way to approach the fruit and remain stable as its picking arm grasps the fruit,
Inceptive Mind
There are never enough hands available to pick fruit at the right time and the right cost. Fruit is left to rot in the orchard or sold at a fraction of its peak value, while farmers lose billions of dollars each year.
The company’s website
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
My advice is the same as ZeroHedge’s: if you are currently in a low-skilled job that you know can easily be replaced with a robot, start making other arrangements and evaluating other ventures, because your job will be swiftly replaced in the not too distant future.
My local grocery store, Martins Supermarkets, here in St. Joseph County, Indiana, not too long ago finally installed self-checkouts. They were installed sometime during the summer-fall months of 2020 if memory serves me right. So now more part-time “high school” jobs are gone. The quick checkout lanes are now used as inventory management stations.
The point is, all of these jobs are getting replaced by machines. So as the mega corporations and franchises continually grow and grow, and the more and more small businesses get destroyed for good, the only jobs remaining are low-paying warehouse and cashier-level jobs. But now more and more and those are disappearing.
Agenda 2030 is quietly moving on schedule as the masses have zero clue what is happening.
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