First look inside bizarre new Woolworths megastore
Woolworths has opened its first customer-free grocery store to help meet the increase demand for online shoppers.
The first new multi-million dollar online Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC) at Goodman’s Rochedale Motorway Estate, Brisbane is approximately 10,000sqm.
The massive CFC will see a huge 800 jobs created as well as supporting a further 30,000 home deliveries and Direct to boot Pick up windows each week.
Personal shoppers will become accustomed to wider aisles and bigger shelves to help with hand picking orders from a vast range of more than 25,000 products quickly, accurately and efficiently.
Woolworths Managing Director eComX, Sally Copland said the new store will help people who are short on time and can’t do their own shopping.
“Online grocery shopping has been well and truly embraced by our Brisbane customers, many of whom are looking to reclaim time in their busy lives,” she said.
“Over the past three years, we’ve seen the demand for online groceries in Metro Brisbane more than triple, a trend we are actually seeing across the entire state of Queensland.
“To keep pace with this demand we’re investing in new online infrastructure to offer our customers more delivery windows and an even more reliable service.
“As well as strengthening our network capability, this new state-of-the-art facility is an important part of our ongoing commitment to investment and jobs in Queensland.
“We’re delighted to be welcoming hundreds of new team members to our new facility.”
The new facility also contains more than 850 solar panels, which will provide 20 per cent of the store’s required energy.
This will also be monitored by smart metering to help monitor and reduce energy consumption.
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