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Kroger Counters Amazon With Self-Driving Grocery Delivery Plans
- Largest U.S. supermarket chain partners with startup Nuro
- Pilot tests will begin this fall in unnamed U.S. location
Souce: Kroger
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If your least favorite part of food shopping is the parking lot, take comfort: Driverless cars are coming to the grocery industry.
Kroger Co., the largest U.S. supermarket chain, is partnering with Bay Area autonomous vehicle startup Nuro to test the delivery of groceries in what the companies claim will be an unmanned road vehicle that can steer itself from the grocery store to a customer’s home. The pilot will begin this fall at an undisclosed U.S. store.