# Ocado builds on Aeon partnership with plans for third robotic warehouse
Published: 2024-07-08
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### Ocado builds on Aeon partnership with plans for third robotic warehouse

LONDON (Reuters) – British online supermarket and technology group Ocado said on Monday it had boosted its partnership with Japan’s Aeon with plans to build a third [robotic](https://tradingherald.com/robots-are-making-french-fries-faster-better-than-humans/) warehouse.

The third customer fulfilment centre (CFC), as Ocado calls them, will be in Kuki-Miyashiro, the Saitama prefecture of Japan, and will go live in 2027.

The expansion of the [partnership](https://tradingherald.com/adidas-puts-partnership-with-kanye-west-under-review/) is a boost for Ocado after it said last month that its Canadian supermarket partner Sobeys had paused the opening of a fourth robotic warehouse, prompting a slump in Ocado shares.

Ocado entered an exclusive partnership with Aeon in 2019. A first CFC in Chiba-city opened last year, serving customers in the Kanto region. A second based in Hachioji is due to go live in 2026.

In addition to the network expansion, the partnership will also see Aeon upgrade its live operations with the latest [Ocado](https://tradingherald.com/autostore-to-appeal-london-high-court-loss-to-ocado-in-patent-feud/) technologies including what it calls “On-Grid [Robotic](https://tradingherald.com/robots-are-making-french-fries-faster-better-than-humans/) Pick”.

Ocado said this will bring increasing levels of labour productivity to Aeon’s operations.

(Reporting by James Davey; Editing by Kate Holton)


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