DALLAS Tx. — Kroger announced that the company will soon start delivering groceries using self-driving trucks in the Dallas area in Texas.
The grocery store chain has partnered with Gatik to use the California-based company’s autonomous box trucks to bring customer orders to multiple Kroger retail locations, according to a video on Gatik’s YouTube page.
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This collaboration will be used to deliver goods from Kroger’s fulfillment centers in Dallas, Texas, to local stores in that area.
The automated delivery runs will be made 18 to 20 hours a day.
“I see Kroger and Gatik being successful by staying closely connected utilizing the data and the resources that we have to learn from each other. Kroger is committed to creating a seamless shopping experience whether that’s through home delivery, through store pickup, shopping in the store and Gatik enables us to just continue and enhance that experience,” says Mike Baker, head of Final Mile with Kroger.
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