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there's plenty more automation in store

  • Written by: Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced its single biggest investment in logistics infrastructure, spending A$780 million to replace up to 1,300 workers with robots.

It plans to build one semi-automated and one fully automated distribution centre in south-west Sydney. About 650 jobs will be created at the new centres, to...

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