What Changes on the Floor A picker in a conventional DC can walk eight to twelve miles in a single shift. That's not a metaphor for inefficiency — that's a real number, and it's mostly dead miles. Walking to the rack, confirming the slot, scanning, walking back. Repeat until the shift ends. The product doesn't care. The clock does. Goods-to-person automation changes the fundamental geometry of that problem. Instead of sending a person into the building to find inventory, the