Self-Driving Grocery Stores Headed to Boston This Spring

Soon Stop & Shop customers can squeeze the melons in the privacy of their own driveway

Why go to the grocery store when the grocery store can come to you?

This is the logic behind grocery chain Stop & Shop’s new partnership with San Francisco-based company Robomart, which will bring mini self-driving convenience stores to customers in Boston this spring—and marks the latest in a long line of grocery delivery experiments.

According to an announcement, consumers summon the self-driving grocery store with an app. When the mobile store arrives, they unlock its doors, select the fruits, vegetables, meal kits and convenience items they want and close its doors.

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