Most grocery warehouses struggle to automate. Work is spread out, cages and pallets sit wherever there was space, and nothing holds still long enough for a robot or a camera to rely on. Laying a VersaTile Grid is the first step that changes that — and from there, each further step towards a fully automated warehouse becomes possible in turn.
A warehouse where every carrier sits on the floor can automate nothing — there is no fixed, known position for a machine to work from.
Install a Grid and every cage and pallet becomes controlled, addressed and moved by software. That single property is the foundation everything else depends on.
Robotic pick, AMR and AGV marshalling, camera-based perpetual inventory, ML-grade accuracy and an automated yard each become possible, in the order the Grid makes them possible.
Step through the journey — or press play — to watch each stage of automation switch on, in the order the Grid unlocks it. Every stage shows what changes, why it only becomes possible now, and the illustrative impact on labour, accuracy and manual handling.
Every cage and pallet sits on the floor, parked wherever there was space. People walk, push, search and count. The layout drifts day by day and no two shifts look the same.
Nothing here can be automated. A robot cannot pick from a carrier that is never in the same place twice, and no system can track stock that only moves by hand.
Figures shown are illustrative.
VersaTile is the first step. Book a walkthrough and we'll map the journey against your site — starting with the throughput you need today.