Lotte Mart’s Busan CFC Pushes Grocery Automation Into Autonomous Piece-Picking

Lotte Mart’s Busan CFC shows grocery fulfillment automation crossing into autonomous item-level picking at production scale.

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What is this trend?

Lotte Mart’s Busan CFC shows grocery automation moving from orchestration and goods handling into autonomous item-level piece-picking, making high-mix cold-chain fulfillment more scalable.

  • Ocado’s platform now automates receiving, storage, picking, packing, shipping, and routing in one grocery stack.
  • Direct AI piece-picking is the key shift: robots locate items and a robotic arm picks products one by one.
  • Busan is a production-scale proof point: 40,000 sqm, 35,000 SKUs, freezer ops, and 30,000+ orders/day.
  • The rollout is repeatable, with Busan first in a six-CFC South Korea network and Goyang already underway.
  • Value is shifting toward end-to-end platforms that combine robotics, software, cold-chain execution, and routing.

What’s the latest?

Lotte Mart’s Zeta Smart Center Busan is the next step after the broader goods-handling systems seen last week: it has turned Ocado’s Smart Platform into a commercial grocery CFC that automates receivi

Execution shifts local, dock automation proves fast ROI, and grocery piece-picking goes full-stack

How it developed

  1. SLA-Backed Robotics, End-to-End Goods Handling, and Full-Stack Platform Consolidation
    • Warehouse Automation Moves Into End-to-End Goods Handling

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