Perhaps the hottest topic in grocery e-commerce these days is micro-fulfillment, or the utilization of materials handling automation to fill online orders. Then, what? How are yoi going to get those orders to the customers who ordered them? One idea, announced by Kroger in May, is a pilot program with Drone Express, a division of Telegrid Technologies, for the drone delivery of orders weighing 5 pounds or less within a 2-mile radius of the store. Kroger is launching the pilot from a store in Cen-terville, Ohio.
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