‘It’s Complicated’ podcast: How the pandemic helps a logistics firm bag more grocery business
During the Covid-19 pandemic, online grocery store orders increased twice as quickly as they had during the past decade.
That trend proved to be a boon for Atlanta-based Dematic, a company that designs, builds and supports logistics solutions.
A key part of its pandemic growth: micro fulfillment centers.
Think of a traditional big-box fulfillment center, then “shrink it down and place it in the back of a store or connected to a store,” said Mohamed Ali Vaid, vice president of commercial acceleration…