AutoStore announced it is a winner of the 2025 Modern Retail Awards in the category of Best Fulfillment Strategy, for adapting its automated retail fulfillment system to power the world's first fully robotic vertical farm in collaboration with OnePointOne. AutoStore is named a winner alongside Sam's Club, ButcherBox, Ulta Beauty, and H&M.
The Modern Retail Awards recognize companies redefining how commerce operates in a rapidly changing retail landscape. AutoStore stands out for proving that the same automation system can power everything from fast-moving retail warehouses to automated vertical farms, helping operations run more efficiently and adapt to new challenges.
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With more than 1,700 systems deployed across 60+ countries, AutoStore is a core part of fulfillment operations worldwide. This award recognizes the company's ability to adapt that same automation backbone to an entirely new environment: agriculture. In partnership with vertical farming company OnePointOne, AutoStore applies its robotic grid technology to create Opollo Farm, the world's first vertical farm run entirely by robots. Instead of storing consumer goods, the system manages living crops, precisely controlling water, light, airflow, and harvesting with minimal human handling.
"Fulfillment is no longer just about moving goods faster; it's about building infrastructure that can adapt as business models evolve," said Parth Joshi, Chief Product Officer at AutoStore. "This project showed that the same automation building blocks and solutions powering retail can be extended into entirely new domains, like food production, without rethinking the system from scratch. That kind of flexibility is becoming essential as retailers face tighter margins, labor constraints, and growing pressure to localize supply chains."
The award highlights a broader shift in how companies think about fulfillment. Not as a fixed warehouse function, but as a modular, adaptable layer of infrastructure that can support new business models, industries, and sustainability goals.
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