Kroger pitches robot-focused expansion so its Delaware hub won’t ‘become obsolete’


Kroger Co. is looking to add 130,000 square feet to its Great Lakes Distribution Center in Delaware, already one of the Cincinnati-based retailers largest such facilities.

But there's more: the company plans to outfit the distribution center with an automated storage retrieval system – a series of computer-controlled robots that can place and retrieve goods.

Located at 2000 Nutter Farms Lane, the logistics hub currently supplies stores in much of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Kroger employs about…

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