I Visited a RUSSIAN FOOD Distribution Centre

I Visited a RUSSIAN FOOD Distribution Centre

Hello everybody. Welcome to Travelling with Russell.  Welcome to new video. Welcome to Moscow region.  Now this is actually where I live in Russia.  We’re around about 50 kilometers  from the center of Moscow.  I thought I’d do a little bit of a  walk around the shop right behind me. 

I want to show you something that this company  is working on as a future initiative to better   create efficiencies in delivering the food to the  stores and and how they utilize their warehouses   and might be a little bit interesting I think. Let’s go for a walk around the shop and then  

Let’s jump into the second part of the  video where I’m going to show you the   warehouse where all the food comes from. If you haven’t heard of Pyaterochka before.  It’s a very well-known  supermarket chain in Russia.  This is probably by a long way the most  typical Supermarket there is in Russia  

And this is a big reason why I call  a lot of my videos typical there is 21,000 pichas throughout all of Russia no matter  where you are in the country there is a store   somewhere more than likely within walking distance  and this one is actually a brand new location  

And it’s only been open for less than 2 months. We are going to go a little bit behind the scenes.  Not at the actual store here but at  the warehouse for pichka and I’m going   to talk you through a little bit of the  new technology that they’re implementing  

To create more efficiencies and make things  easier in the logistics chain of this company.  This is the loading dock for this store  doesn’t need to be that big they just   basically back a truck in and they load in and  out the pallets and stock because it’s not you  

Know particularly a big store if you compare it  to a hypermarket or somewhere like Perekrestok.  But Pyaterochka is incredibly popular in Russia. There isn’t a person in this country that has not   heard of this chain if you’re wondering why  I don’t have my hat on today it’s actually  

Beautiful and sunny it’s actually +1 celsius. This is as nice a weather as we’ve had in   a long time here in Moscow. I don’t even need my hat on.  Let’s head on inside the shop. One of the main reasons why Pyaterochka  

Is so popular popular in Russia is the opening  hours and this particular location is open from   8:00 a.m. till 11:00 p.m. 7 days a week.  No matter where you live in Russia there’ll  be a Pyaterochka somewhere close by.  Essentially it’s open late. So it’s nice and easy to come shopping they don’t  

Have bigger trolleys here they’ve just got the  smaller baskets and they got this little smaller   push trolley where you put the basket on it which  makes it easier to go shopping if you want to   come and work here they’ve got some job openings  there’s the daily specials right there and let’s  

Have a very brief walk around and show you what a  incredibly typical Russian Supermarket looks like   pichka too some people is a convenience store to  others it’s a supermarket now for me this is a   scaled down full line Supermarket but just this  particular store how big it is it has everything  

You possibly need and more as you walk around  you’re going to see all of the choices in here   one thing that’s always mentioned in my videos and  I realize that a lot too that there isn’t Shoppers  

Necessarily in the store now as I’ve walked around  before filming there is people in here you know   this is one of seven pichas in my region where  I live this one just a little bit further from  

My house to come and walk and shop here but I’ve  been here before and I know the store very well   actually even the staff in the shop recognize me  from coming often one of the other big draw cars  

To this store is it’s got an in-house Bakery. There’s a couple of guys here getting some   fresh bread and then they’ve also got a coffee  station here as well so you can make yourself   a coffee very simply and you can even pay at  the register and leave from here or you can  

Just carry it to the checkout and pay at the  end I’ve lived in this area for close to 10   years and this particular store has been here  for 2 months and it’s so nice to actually come   in here and walk around a full sized store. Pyaterochka’s can vary quite a lot depending  

On the location where they’ve  chosen to open the business.  So, this particular building was built solely for  the reason of the supermarket but some of them   are actually placed in existing buildings where  there’s maybe an apartment block or housing so  

It’s kind of nice to come into this bigger full  line store and see everything on every shelf.  One thing that this store does very well is  it distracts me a lot from making the video’s.  I’ve just noticed a brand new flavor of Lay’s. Cheese and Honey flavor has anybody had these  

Has anybody seen them before now Lay’s are a  very famous American brand of potato chips.  They have a lot of flavors in Russian  supermarkets does anybody want to try   cheese and honey I wonder if they actually  release that flavor to coincide with maslenitsa. 

Which is this week in Russia. Which is basically pancake week and   they’ve got an advertisement here letting you know  there’s some discounts on pancake ingredients so   the main reason that I came to this store and to  create this video was to talk about some of the  

Initiatives that P implemented about warehousing  and actually one of these pallets is right here so   what they do in a lot of the supermarket is they  bring them to the shop floor and then restock the  

Shop from the pallet directly onto the Shelf you  can also see over here in the back corner where   their dock is there’s a couple of the fresh pets  that have come in so these literally are getting  

Put out right now the lady is doing some of the  restocking straight to the shelf so it’s a matter   of taking it off the pallet finding the location  in the fridge and getting it done now what we’re  

Going to do from here is we’re going to jump over  to the warehouse for pichka and I’m going to show   you some of the amazing new technology that  they’re implementing so the next few scenes  

Are going to be from the warehouse that I visited  a few days ago over in podolsk it’s about 2 hours   from here so I’m doing this a little bit out of  sequence but it’ll all make sense as you watch  

The video and I’m going to voice over some parts  of it because the warehouse was a little bit noisy   and there was other people around and it’s just  easy for me to explain it to you with a voice  

Over so I hope you enjoy this part of the video  walking around inside you can see all of the big   pallet jacks these are all the ridable ones and  the ones that can essentially reach up to the top   here and get everything at the highest point  of the warehouse walking around the warehouse  

It’s certainly impressive I know I’m going to  continually repeat it but it’s pretty interesting   to see here we can see all the loading docks and  the area where they prepare the pilots to go onto   the trucks walking along the live different lanes  and to see all of the stock it’s pretty impressive  

How big it is just to explain where I’ve come to  here this is actually the distribution center for   pichka now of course we saw that at the beginning  of the video and it’s one of my favorite stores  

To come to and I was given this opportunity to  come to this distribution center to have a look   at the warehouse and then have a look at some new  technologies that they’re introducing and they’ve   set up a Innovation lab is what they’re calling  it here at the warehouse and they’ve designated  

An area that they’re able to test the different  robots that we’re going to see in the video and   this one here is the pallet lifting system or  pallet jack and the gentleman on the side there’s  

Pointing out how it’s got some QR codes on the  floor I will talk about this a little bit more.  The Design Lab that they’ve set up is giving them  a chance to check out the machines themselves and   the efficiencies that they can create and  what their capabilities are in a warehouse  

Environment like this now at the moment a lot of  things are done manually or with some Mechanical   Devices but the intention for Pyaterochka and  this distribution center is actually to create   an entire Warehouse using robot technology  or what’s called autonomous technology. 

Here is the wrapping machine I’m going to talk  about this a couple of times as well this is   really cool I could have done just a single  video on this thing going around in circles   I’ve actually worked in distribution centers and  supermarkets myself and had to do this by hand  

And I know how difficult it is to do manually  so to have this kind of machine in place is   just fantastic and I hope this thing becomes  more relevant and prevalent in distribution   centers not just here in Russia but around  the world as well one of the other real main  

Advantages to having autonomous robots and you  know automated Machinery is a safety aspect in   the warehouse and to not have people and humans in  these areas where they’re doing the work I think   it’s always going to be you know an advantage  for the company and for the warehouse to have  

A safer environment for the people that do work  there to be working in and where they’ve created   large exclusion zones for the use of these robots  I mean it’s only a good thing for the warehouse   for the people working there for the company  and I always think personally that safety is  

The number one thing in the workplace even ahead  of efficiencies which of course this is what the   idea of robots are creating is to create a more  efficient system and you know try to reduce the   number of human steps involved in the process  of receiving the goods into the warehouse house  

Putting them into the racking on the shelving  and then bringing them down to be then loaded   onto pets and then subsequently going onto the  store later so for me there’s obviously a lot of   advantages to robots and then also that safety  aspect as well we can see here the robot pilet  

Jack can come and collect the goods completely  uned and then it lifts it onto the base right   here and then it’s able to move around the floor  of the area right here via cameras there’s also  

QR codes on the floor where it directs to the  right location one of the things I really like   about this wrapping machine is the fact that  it’s actually on Wheels and it can be brought   from one location to another in the warehouse  so it’s it’s not restricted to just where it  

Is here like we see in this designated area  that they’re doing the testing in and it can   be brought to another part of the warehouse or  into one of the lanes where all the food is and  

It can be used to wrap something on the spot and  then it can be brought back then to the normal   area where it will actually just wrap the pallets  the idea is that it’s as close as possible to the  

Final destination of the pallet to go onto the  truck and then onto the pishka store and just   remember there’s 20,000 pkas in all of Russia  so any efficiencies that they can create in  

This industry is only a good thing for pichka and  for the customer for you and I at the end of the   day in the store waiting for something to become  available so if they can create efficiencies it’s  

Just going to be a good thing for everybody just  to give you an idea of the difference between the   robot wrapping machine and the manual wrapp  machine I think is the best description they   put the pallet here onto the turntable and then  switch it on and it starts wrapping this is the  

Robot floor washing machine it’s just left its  home docking station and it’s heading down the   aisle to start it shift cleaning this Lane that  it’s heading down you’ll just see it in a second  

And I’ll talk about it more we can see the robot  now coming back down the lane from doing one lap   up and down and it’s going to come right by  where we are here and it’s going to basically  

Return back to the station where it started from  it actually has avoidance built into it so you   can see that it basically stays out the way of  people as it does a turnarounds very neat how  

This works one of the gentlemen I’m on the tour  with is doing a short video just to point out the   difference between him doing the cleaning and the  robots and how basically he’s working up a sweat  

And the robot is just doing its thing without any  worry at all after a long shift of cleaning the   robot is now heading back home or at least to its  charging station as we’re all following it with anticipation it’s very interesting how  we’ve all come to see this technology  

In action in such a big warehouse and  this place is just humongous how big it   is and there little robot running around  and just a short walk away the robot is   now finishing its shift and coming back to  its docking station basically this is where  

It does the charging and where it’s kept  until it’s ready to go again very smart machine here he goes just making sure he’s got got  the right angle and into the docking station how   far of we come everybody in terms of Technology  it’s just staggering that this is something that  

We’re seeing now we can see here the robot testing  the ability to lift up and down up to 1,000 kg of   weight which is essentially all of the goods that  we see on the pallet right here and its ability to  

Lift as high as this robot specifically goes and  it would be able to then place it into a different   location or unload it and load it my colleague is  testing out the robot’s abilities to move around  

And he’s trying to guide the robot with his mind. Okay, so while I’ve been doing my tour were here   in the warehouse they found one of the employees. What country are you from?  I am from Columbia. Colombia, Wow.  And you’re in Moscow. Yes I live here. 

Now let me know or let all the viewers know. How many languages do you speak?  First I must say my name is Christian. I am from Colombia.  I speak English. I speak Spanish, German,   Spanish and English and some Russian. Russian a little.  Wow a little Russian. The same. 

Maybe you speak more Russian than I do Christian. You’re amazing.  Thank you so much. Thank you so much.  We’re now having a look at some of the abilities  of the robot pet lifter and the fact that it’s  

Able to be programmed and do different functions  one of the keys to this is on the floor here and   the fact that it uses QR codes for it to protect  the area on the ground and there’s a couple of  

Different people here getting a bit of a talk  about it to understand its abilities and how it   can improve and enhance the efficiency of the  warehouse just to talk a little bit more about   the different Technologies here so there is this  pallet lifting machine I call it a pallet jack  

But it’s fully robotic and there is no humans  involved in this machine it’s all working via   QR codes on the floor and then the next step  over here is the wrapping machine and this is   also robotized if you like and it basically dances  around the pallet and wraps it it’s really very  

Smart how it works and just the ability to do this  completely without human touch the idea is to come   up with efficiencies in the warehouse which will  allow the warehouse to work more efficiently in  

Terms of a business day or a working day and then  have less humans if that’s the right word to use.  You can see all of the different functions this  machine has basically it wraps pets and that’s  

All it’s designed to do and this is the robot  cleaner up close or at least a little bit closer   floor washing robots and even though we’re here  in Russia it’s completely written in English.  St the moment it’s in sleeping mode and it’s  essentially at a charging station or a charging  

Dock and from here it can be sent out to do  tasks and cleaning tasks in the main floor of   the warehouse and for now though it’s having  asleep well we’ve been shown this and been   demonstrated it it’s very interesting they  keep calling it a he as in a man and I asked  

Them about whether or not it’s a lady or a man  robot and for now it’s a man so let me know in   the comments do you think this should have  a name or a nickname for it at the moment. 

Floor washing robot is what they’re going with  getting a chance to walk around the warehouse   for pichka is certainly very interesting this  is something that I know very well from working   on cruise ships and going to the warehouse  in Miami Florida and then also in Australia. 

I was working in supermarkets and  this is very familiar territory.  Then just seeing the employees here running around  on these drivable pallet jacks and they’re picking   the orders that will then be wrapped and put into  the cross docks for collection to be delivered to  

The stores it’s pretty impressive really and  truly so we’re getting a chance to see here   the pallet robot go down the main aisle here or  one of the aisles there’s a lot of them this is  

Aisle 30 and how it will be able to basically  go to the designated pallet and then pull the   item walking around a little bit more in the  warehouse It’s just impressive the sheer size  

Of this and then even in the far distance there  you can see areas that are not even in use and   it’s just staggering there is just aisle after  aisle of different food Goods it’s really very  

Interesting to see on the right here is the cross  docks so all of these pallets are in rows based   on the truck that will pick them up and take  them to the individual store throughout Moscow  

So these all preped ahead of time waiting for the  trucks to come to take them to the shops at the   moment X5 group who are the owners of Pyaterochka. This is actually their testing phase that they’re   going through with these robots and their  Innovation department they trying to find  

The best way that they can maximize the usage of  these different devices and at the moment they   can already see that there’s a 20% increase in  productivity just from using these machines even   on a small scale like this and the future plan of  course is for them to have an entirely autonomous  

And robot operated distribution center and I  think that’s you know realistically possible   down the track and what they’re going to do going  forward is retrofit this current distribution   center and others around Moscow and Russia and  then slowly over time build up to having that  

Fully automated distribution center now that’s  something I want to come back and make a video   about and I’m pretty sure everybody would  want to see that as well let me know in the   comments but you know these machines are very  smart in what they do I must admit while we’ve  

Been walking around I’ve been reminiscing a  lot of my time working on cruise ships and   working in supermarkets in Australia and I do  miss this this is something that is absolutely   my bread and butter and what I know so well. You can see again the different lanes and just  

How high they’re stacked up to the roof there  just to see these shelves and how high they   are and how much product is on them it’s just  impressive in itself there’s Christian again   friend oh off he goes the warehouse that we’re  seeing here is 24 hours a day and just walking  

Around and the amount of these drivers going  up and down is just staggering all of the stock   ready to go to the stores right here these  are all wrapped ready for delivery and then   actually we can even see the loading dock where  they’ll all go out from right here it’s truly  

Fascinating to get a chance to walk around  and see all of this in action and all of the   processes that go into stocking my local shop my  typical supermarket and have a look right there.  I can see my favorite drink  Chernogolovka Mandarin. 

My favorite drink is right on that pallet. I just wonder which shop it’s going to.  I hope everyone’s finding this interesting  this walk around of the warehouse and to see   the Technologies and the potential of robots  in use in warehouses and now I’m being very  

Careful where I walk here because it’s very  specific for safety and you can see also I’ve   got the hard hat and a high viz vest on. I’ve even got safety boots that they’ve   provided me with as well. I hope this video has come  

Out nice and it looks good. There is just row after row   of pets and these are all being prepared ahead  of time for the truck to come and collect them   and take them to the store and then as simple  as that the truck backs up to the spot right  

Here and then they’re all loaded exactly how they  are in order here into the truck where they might   actually even do a two shop delivery they’ll have  all the pets assigned at the front of the back of  

The truck as well it seems like the warehouse  is never ending as we’ve been taken around on   the tour here and just to see the amount of stock  there’s obviously a lot of organization required  

In these warehouses so you know every pallet has  a barcode on it and it has a location and where   it needs to be and then where it will go then to  the aisles for picking well you’re can see there   how far down the warehouse goes. With the power of editing. 

I’m back here at the store and I’m actually  looking at that bottle of Chernogolovka Mandarin   that we saw on the pallet at the warehouse. And then here it is on the Shelf.  Now the sun is beaming through  the store from this direction. 

We can see all all the different drinks and juices  right here and a lot of brands are quite familiar   I think to some people maybe to others they’re not  the tea and coffee aisle is just here as well it’s  

So sunny outside it’s a beautiful day today and  I’m in the supermarket making a video I’ve just   noticed one more pette here in the shop and this  is barbecue coals and we’re barely getting rid of   the snow outside and Springtime is a on us and  they’ve already got the barbecue coals waiting  

For us to start doing barbecuing probably about  3 months from now maybe they’re trying to get   us out of the winter and into the summer but  basically that pallet would have come from   that warehouse that we saw gone onto the truck  and brought right to the store like you see so  

It turns out Roman who actually just sold me my  drink is actually a subscriber to the channel.  Thanks Roman for helping out. He’s a little bit camera shy.  But, a channel subscriber who works at this store. Now, I’ve been here a few times before. 

But I didn’t realize that he knew my videos from  the channel oh that Sun as I leave pishka behind   and the big mountain of snow that’s slowly melting  away and I head on down the road okay everybody so  

I’m actually right by my house now maybe if  you follow the channel I’ve actually done a   couple of apartment tours in this same building  I really love to do some more I hope you found   this video interesting something a little bit  different on the channel it’s not necessarily  

A supermarket tour it’s not a warehouse tour  it’s a bit of a combination of the two talking   about the technology that we saw in the warehouse  for pichka I hope it was something maybe that you   found a little bit different and I actually  enjoyed going to the warehouse I thought it  

Was really cool I’ve worked in supermarkets and in  retail all my life so see something like that here   in Russia and just making a lot of comparisons  with what we have in Australia and what they’ve   got here in warehouses in Moscow region where we  were what do you think about autonomous robots  

And robot machines taking over do you think it’ll  become a thing or do you think the human element   is going to still be necessary for something  like you know preparing the pallets to go on   the trucks and then the stores let me know in  the comments what you think if you like the  

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What does a Russian Food Distribution Centre look like inside. Come behind the scenes at the Pyaterochka Food Distribtion Centre in Pololsk, Russia. See what it takes to get food from the truck to the shelf in the fascinating behind the scenes tour.

🌐 Store Name: Pyatyorochka Supermarket ( Пятёрочка )
🌐 5ka Supermarket Website: https://www.5ka.ru/
📍 Store Location: Moscow Region, Naro-Fominskiy City District, Aprelevka
📍 Map Location: https://yandex.com/maps/-/CDudIKIN
⌚ Time of Filming: 4.00 pm (16.00 pm) 15th March 2023.

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