This week saw a lot of machines taking over for humans in both the pharmacy and warehousing industries and augmented reality finally go mainstream in retail. Reimagining Retail With Three New Augmented Reality InnovationsJD.com, one of China’s largest e-commerce companies, announced the new Augmented Reality (AR) Innovation Alliance (article in Chinese) and brought three new AR products to market. Both Wal-Mart and Carslan both committed to bringing JD’s new AR products to their stores. The future pharmacy is 200 square meters and is optimized for a completely seamless shopping experience. Over 100 offline pharmacies have committed to join this program and build a seamless online to offline consumer customer experience.

Source: Forbes May 28, 2018 08:37 UTC