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Speaker 1: go to Charlie Pellard in the Bloomberg newsroom for Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Business flathand I think if him Fox stocks continue to

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Speaker 1: and that will represent the locusts of a bunch of

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Speaker 1: shipped using these robots. Correct, that's correct, We're using We're

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Speaker 1: shooting about thirty different customers in our warehouses. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for spending time with us. Bruce Wealty is

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