@cosme’s 7,400 SKUs, Microsoft offers voluntary severance to 60,000, smart carts removed — and 7 more | BPJ News
From dense retail floors and removed in-store terminals to AI investment, job cuts, paperboard and logistics costs, we examine a moment when adding equipment alone no longer leaves profit behind.
A cosmetics shop stocking 7,400 items in about 264 square metres has opened, while Instacart’s smart-cart business from Caper AI, acquired for $350 million, is heading for closure. As investment in AI and equipment grows, the conditions for recovering that spending are becoming tougher, including labour costs, management workloads, paper prices and logistics.
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Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
@cosme handles 7,400 items in about 264 square metres. Instacart will end the in-store terminal business of Caper AI, which it acquired for $350 million. Investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and robots is advancing, while Microsoft has made 60,000 employees eligible for voluntary severance. Printing and packaging companies need to separate out replacement frequency, fixed costs, pressure on people, and the stability of base paper and logistics.…
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