Advances in artificial intelligence are poised to drive a “massive” boom in online grocery deliveries, according to the head of Picnic, a Dutch app-only supermarket rapidly expanding into Germany and France.
Picnic has disrupted the Dutch supermarket landscape with its offer of free delivery in a time window of 20 minutes — made possible by squeezing efficiency out of huge amounts of data.
The firm already uses AI for a vast range of operations, explained CEO Michiel Muller, 59, at the firm’s 43,000-square-metre distribution hub in Utrecht, central Netherlands.
“For instance, predicting how many bananas we will sell in three weeks’ time. Or…
