Grocer hiring 200 associates for roles in
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MIAMI, June 8, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Propelled by steady growth, The Kroger Co.,
America's largest grocery retailer, announced Kroger Delivery now
serves customers in South Florida
with the opening of a new spoke location in Miami. The 60,000-square-foot spoke facility,
in collaboration with the Fulfillment Center in Groveland, FL, will serve as a last-mile
cross-dock location that efficiently expands Kroger Delivery's
ability to serve more customers.
"We are thrilled to welcome Kroger Delivery to Miami-Dade County as they expand their
Florida footprint," said
James Kohnstamm, Executive Vice
President, Miami-Dade Beacon Council. "The 60,000 square-foot
high-tech distribution center will bring 200 new jobs to
Opa Locka and adjacent
communities. This state-of-the-art facility is another example of
how two of our key industries – trade and logistics, and technology
– intersect to deliver, innovative seamless solutions that support
business growth. The strength of our ecosystem coupled with the
infrastructure to support the needs of on-demand grocery delivery
make Miami-Dade a natural fit for
Kroger's expanding ecommerce delivery service."
The facility will offer job opportunities with roles in
logistics, human resources, and transportation to support the
expansion in South Florida. As an
industry leader, Kroger offers resources, benefits, and training,
to help associates thrive. Individuals interested in more
information can visit and apply at Jobs.Kroger.com.
"Kroger's new hub in Miami-Dade
County is an innovative program that demonstrates how
business leaders are leveraging technology to provide important
services and job opportunities," said Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava. "Their eCommerce model to
deliver fresh food at people's doors offers another great option
for our community to stock up on the essentials during hurricane
season. This will help to make sure they have what they need to
keep their families fed and secure."
"We're thrilled to introduce customers to Kroger Delivery in
South Florida," said Andrea Colby, eCommerce corporate affairs and
communications manager. "We offer customers a more convenient
option to access fresh food and grocery items. Kroger Delivery is
an easy, seamless way to order groceries, have them arrive in
refrigerated vans, delivered to your door by professional,
uniformed associates all based on your demanding schedule."
Kroger Delivery Explained
This expansion represents an extension of a partnership between
Kroger and Ocado, a world leader in technology for grocery
e-commerce. In 2018, the companies announced a collaboration to
establish a delivery network that combines artificial intelligence,
advanced robotics, and automation in a bold new way, bringing
first-of-its-kind technology to America. Through the hub-and-spoke
delivery network, the organization now serves customers in
Central Florida, Tampa, Jacksonville, and now South Florida, without traditional
brick-and-mortar stores.
The delivery network relies on highly automated fulfillment
centers. At the hub sites, more than 1,000 bots whizz around giant
3D grids, orchestrated by proprietary air-traffic control systems
in the unlicensed spectrum. The grid, known as The Hive, contains
totes with products and ready-to-deliver customer orders. As
customers' orders near delivery times, the bots retrieve products
from The Hive and are presented at pick stations for items to be
sorted for delivery, a process governed by algorithms that ensures
items are intelligently packed. For example, fragile items are
placed on top, bags are evenly weighted, and each order is
optimized to fit into the lowest number of bags, reducing plastic
use.
After being packed, groceries are loaded into a refrigerated
delivery van, which can store up to 20 orders. Powerful machine
learning algorithms optimize delivery routes, considering factors
like road conditions and optimal fuel efficiency. Drivers may
travel up to 90 miles with orders from facilities to make
deliveries.
Kroger currently operates customer fulfillment centers in
Monroe, OH, Groveland, FL, Forest Park, GA (Atlanta) and Dallas,
TX with additional customer fulfillment centers slated for
California, Frederick, MD, Phoenix, AZ, Pleasant Prairie, WI, Romulus, MI (Detroit), Cleveland,
OH, Charlotte, NC as well
as South Florida and the
Northeast.
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About Kroger
At The Kroger Co.
(NYSE: KR), we are Fresh for Everyone™ and dedicated to our
Purpose: to Feed the Human Spirit™. We are, across our family of
companies, nearly half a million associates who serve over 11
million customers daily through a seamless shopping experience
under a variety of banner names We are committed to creating
#ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025. To learn
more about us, visit
our newsroom and investor
relations site.
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