Magento 2 Order Management Extension
Funny this appeared with the same query about retail employees getting enough respect. The old canard of doing more with less has been pushed to the limit in retail.
Picking and packing orders has not been a competency of retail stores, but it’s early and the process can/will improve. No doubt a distribution center is better set up for this, that’s its purpose, whereas a store is meant for shoppers to pick items off the shelf, but methods will be developed to make in-store picking and packing easier and less obtrusive to customers shopping in-store. The big challenge for in-store is still knowing and making sure inventory is available to fulfill an order.