Will Amazon do to the grocery industry what it did to e-commerce? Amazon has been busy lately. After entering the grocery delivery market with Amazon Fresh and buying Whole Foods, it is now in the process of launching its own supermarket, Amazon Go. These moves have many wondering if Amazon is about to transform the grocery business just as it did e-commerce and publishing. Actually, this is a very different market. The limited profitability of online deliveries leaves little room for Amazon to innovate and Whole Foods only attracts a restricted, wealthier market. That being said, Amazon Go might just be the disruptive force to…
Author: Mehak Srivastava
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Understanding the complete potential of a technology is pivotal to correctly utilising a service; Rockwell Automation constantly strives to bring this knowledge closer to its customers. Automation University, hosted by Rockwell Automation and members of its PartnerNetwork programme in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is an event focused on technologies encompassing integrated information and automation solutions, focusing on current and emerging challenges within the oil and gas, metals and mining, water waste, and consumer packaged goods industries. LNME speaks to Pankaj Shrivastava, field business leader – Architecture and Software, Rockwell Automation, to find out more about the event and the topics in…
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