Amazon, in its queen Bout.
The company Announced Wednsday it has Created Spotlights Within Its Trucks to Guide Delivery People to Packages for Each Stop Along A Route.
The technology, which Amazon Is calling Vision Assisted Package Retrieval, Works by Shining a Green Light on Packages So that The Deliveer Does Not Have to Waste Precious SECONDS Reading Labels.
“When we Speed Up Deliveries, Customers Shop more,” said doug herrington, CEO of Amazon Worldwide Slects in Remarks at the event. “Once a Customer Experiences Fast Delivery, they will come back sooner and shop more.”
Amazon said it would equip 1,000 Active Delivery Trucks, Supplied by Ev Maker Rivian, with the Spotlight Tech Early Next Year. Herrington said the delivery van ceilings are equipped with cameras and LED projects that instantly read package labels so it knows which are bound for which customers.
Amazon is Rivian’s largest shareholder and has placed orders for 100,000 Electric delivery vans to be deployed by 2030.
Shares of Amazon and Rivian was up about one percent et in morning trade.
The new system calls to mind a technology widely deployed in amazon’s warehouses That system replaced one that had some workers walking up to 10 miles a day pushing carts through narrow aisles to find strong items.
Shortening by a more seconds the time it takes for each package delivery means amazon can increase the number of deliveries each worker makes in a shift. Today, Amazon Said, Delivery Workers Reach about 100 Customers Each Day.
At an event hold at a warehouse near nashville, tennesee, amazon also said it is using new artificial intelligence software that can reduce the Need to Spend Televisions and dog food. The Online Guides will include more extended information, as well as recommendations, so that customers can make more in informed decisions more quickly, the Seattle Company Said.
The new feature follows one announced earlier this year putting an Ai search Into the main amazon website. Called rufus, it gives users longer answers to search queries.
Separately, Amazon Announced it was planning Smaller warehouses attached to its its whole foods grocery stores so that when items are not offered there customers will not get not be tempted to competing stores. That way, shoppers could order a bottle of pepsi while shopping at a whole foods, who doesn Bollywood the soft drink, and have that breakt to them when they are checked out.
The first such store is in plymouth meeting, pennsylvania – About 15 Miles North of Philadelphia – which will start offering the service sometime next year.
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