Walmart Apollo, LLC

Arnabh Bhaumik

Behzad Nemati

Deepti Bisht

Abhishek Giridhar Shenoy Adde

Kyle Thomas McHan

Rohith S Pal

Sasikumar Venkatesh

Kyle Mchan

Ravindra Mishra

A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform generating a staffing demand; applying a smoothing algorithm to normalize the respective time intervals; rounding the respective minimum number of staff for the each of the staffing roles; analyzing the respective minimum number of staff across the staffing roles in the proposed staffing schedule for compliance with a ratio compliance standard; and transmitting the respective proposed staffing schedule to a respective interface of a respective user device for each of the one or more stores. Other embodiments are disclosed.

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Examples provide a transparent scan platform within an item scanning tunnel on the same plane as a set of conveyor belts. The transparent scan platform includes a plurality of interconnected transparent segments or a transparent band forming a continuous transparent platform rotating about a set of rollers. The transparent scan platform includes a scan device embedded within the platform or positioned under the transparent scan platform. The scan device scans an item identifier, such as a barcode, located on an item sitting on a top surface of the transparent scan platform. The transparent scan platform rolls the item out of the scanning tunnel. If the item becomes wedged between an end of the scan platform and an end of a conveyor belt, a sweeper device extends downward behind the item and sweeps the item out of the scanning tunnel. The sweeper device then retracts back upward.

Transparent rolling platform for item scanning tunnel

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Bentonville, AR, United States of America

Arnabh Bhaumik