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Here's your daily crunch. You can't discuss fulfillment robots without mentioning Amazon.

Over the past decade, the retail juggernaut has become the 800 pound gorilla in the category, courtesy of several

key acquisitions and seemingly endless resources.

And while warehouse robotics and automation have been accelerated amid the pandemic and resulting employment crunch,

Amazon robotics has been driving these categories for years now.

This week, the company celebrated a decade of its robotics division

which was effectively born with its acquisition of Kiva systems.

Over the course of its life Amazon robotics has deployed more than 520,000 robotic drive units across its fulfillment and

sort centers.

Up next, Google announced that it's adding a new label on maps and search that will allow people to identify their

business as being LGBTQ-plus owned.

The new label is now available to merchants in the United States with a verified business profile on Google.

The new label joins the current options available to merchants, which include black-owned,

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