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Why and How We Built a Flexible Payments System

IntroIt’s a simple truth of e-commerce: you have to pay for what you want. Whether you’re filling your basket with groceries or ordering a book, a pay...

Erdem ErbasWed Oct 22 2025

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Adding Eyes to Picnic’s Automated Warehouses Part 2

Our automated fulfillment center in Utrecht is a busy place. Every day, thousands of totes travel across conveyor belts, carrying everything from appl...

Sven ArendsThu Oct 09 2025

Picnic 10 years: 2024 — Building a modular warehouse

Picnic 10 years: 2024 — Building a modular warehouseIn this edition of the Picnic 10 years blog we go back to 2024. 2024 was by all accounts an exciti...

Matthijs IJkemaFri Sep 19 2025

Growing the next generation of leadership

At Picnic, we pride ourselves on developing things in-house whenever we can. Typically we are referring to software when we say this, but our engineer...

Svava Hildur BjarnadóttirTue Sep 09 2025

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Picnic 10 years: 2022 — Building a Store Platform to Scale Beyond a Million Customers

Picnic 10 years: 2022 — Building a Store Platform to Scale Beyond a Million CustomersLessons learned from 8 years of building the Picnic StorePicnic’s...

Lars LockefeerFri Aug 29 2025

Automating the Pick: How Picnic is Integrating Robots in Their Order-Picking Process

Innovation has been embedded in Picnic’s DNA since our inception. From reinventing traditional grocery delivery to developing fully automated warehous...

Jhon MauroThu Aug 14 2025

Breaking a Supply Chain Monolith — A Learning Journey on the Ship of Theseus

Breaking a Supply Chain Monolith — A Learning Journey on the Ship of TheseusAt Picnic we have grown in many different directions over a relative short...

Chris DekkerTue Aug 05 2025

From Fragile to Flexible: Rebuilding Our Slotting Brain from Scratch

🧩 IntroductionBuilding the best milkman on Earth requires thinking fast. You come up with a bold idea, trial it with a PoC, convince the stakeholders...

Evgenii KorobkovTue Jul 29 2025

Picnic 10 Years: 2021 — Expanding into France, and beyond

Picnic 10 Years: 2021 — Expanding into France, and beyondIn our seventh year, Picnic launched in France — a milestone not just in expansion, but in re...

Seleme TopuzTue Jul 15 2025

Picnic 10 years: 2020 — Sudo pick me a sandwich

Picnic 10 years: 2020 — Sudo pick me a sandwichIn this edition of the blog series about 10 years of Picnic, we take you back to December 2020, we’re i...

Sjoerd CranenTue Jun 17 2025

Adding Eyes to Picnic’s Automated Warehouses

How computer vision can spot problems long before a customer noticesIn Picnic’s fully-automated fulfilment centre in Utrecht thousands of totes move o...

Sander LamWed Jun 11 2025

Building an AI-first company: lessons from scaling from a small start-up to a Machine Learning…

Building an AI-first company: lessons from scaling from a small start-up to a Machine Learning powerhouseIn the rapidly evolving landscape of e-commer...

Jelmer BorstWed May 28 2025

Building a Real-time Analytics Platform for Picnic

In the fast-paced world of online grocery delivery, making data-driven decisions quickly can be the difference between delighting customers and losing...

David MischkeThu May 15 2025