Strongpoint, a leading provider of grocery retail technology, is expanding its Nordics and Baltics partnership with AutoStore to Ireland and the UK.

AutoStore provides the world’s leading automation solution for grocery retailers looking to scale their e-commerce offer.

Their cubic design allows customers to either store four times the inventory in the same space, or all of their existing inventory in one quarter of the space.

“Combined with software and StrongPoint’s grocery management expertise, it can boost efficiency to world-leading levels for maximum speed and return-on-investment,” said StrongPoint SVP for E-Commerce, Chris Mackie.

Previously, AutoStore’s solutions have only covered two temperature zones, chilled and ambient. Most grocery retailers have been using manual picking for frozen items when automating their e-grocery fulfilment services.

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AutoStore has recently developed a solution to automate the storage and retrieval of frozen items, and StrongPoint was recently selected to design and install the world’s first AutoStore grid with three temperature zones, ambient, chilled, and frozen, for a grocery distribution company.

StrongPoint is headquartered in Norway and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange

“While grocery e-commerce has not dramatically changed in the last two decades, automated micro-fulfilment centres built into existing stores or standalone offers a game changing opportunity to increase productivity and reduce costs,” Mackie added.

StrongPoint has c.500 employees in Norway, Sweden, the Baltics, Spain, the UK and Ireland, and is AutoStore’s first grocery-focused distribution partner.

AutoStore, founded in Norway in 1996, is a robot technology company that invented Cube Storage Automation – the densest product/inventory storage solution in existence. Over 950 systems have been installed around the world.