I for one welcome our new grocer overlords

[vetran]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-300-jobs.html

Online grocer Ocado plans to shut its Hertfordshire warehouse - which handles a fifth of its customer orders - in a move impacting 2,300 jobs

• Ocado has now started consultation with the 2,300 workers based at Hatfield

......

Online grocer Ocado has announced plans to shut its oldest distribution centre as it shifts towards robotic warehouses in a move that will affect around 2,300 workers.

The group said it will close the site in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, which accounts for about a fifth of its customer orders each week, later this year.

The orders will instead be shifted to a new state-of-the-art automated warehouse in Luton, which is due to open in 2023.

apologies missed the important part.

[eek]

Because it's the oldest warehouse and it's cheaper to build new than refurbish

And you can't refurbish an operating warehouse so you build new and close down the old one.

[vetran]

Because it's the oldest warehouse and it's cheaper to build new than refurbish

And you can't refurbish an operating warehouse so you build new and close down the old one.

Indeed. However the point is the new warehouse will be almost totally automated and 2300 people have lost their jobs.

oops I missed adding that point, I was waiting for an import that ended early, will update the post.

[Fraidycat]

Indeed. However the point is the new warehouse will be almost totally automated and 2300 people have lost their jobs.

Not to worry the government will let in an additional 2300 foreign migrant workers to make up for those job losses.

[vetran]

Not to worry the government will let in an additional 2300 foreign migrant workers to make up for those job losses.

sadly that is not unrealistic