Kroger CEO discusses Ocado details

The Kroger Co. CEO Rodney McMullen presented further insight on the details about the grocer’s plans for the development of its huge automated warehouse-distribution centers with British online grocery delivery company, Ocado.

According to the Cincinnati Business Courier, Cincinnati-based Kroger, one of the nation’s largest operator of traditional supermarkets, plans to divide the first three facilities among a mix of locations, McMullen said recently at the National Retail Federation’s NRF 2019: Retail’s Big Show in New York. The automated facilities are to use robotics to select items to be delivered to Kroger stores, many for customers to pick up or have delivered to their homes.

Kroger has already announced the first location will be in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati, where the retailer has several stores. About a dozen Kroger stores are within 20 miles of that location.

The other two locations, including one in an area where Kroger doesn’t currently operate, will be announced soon, McMullen said.

To read the Cincinnati Business Courier article, click here.