Missed our seminar at GAMA Expo 2024? Here’s a recap of How To Optimize Your Labor and Increase Sales With Robotics.

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The mission of this seminar was to help sellers grow their business and optimize their labor through best practices related to in-store automation and card sorting robotics. We know that sorting and organizing your inventory can be a daunting task, which is why we’re excited to share more about robotics card sorting and automation technology. This technology allows you to turn your room of doom into perfectly organized inventory.

What Is In-Store Automation? 
In-store automation is the use of technology to automate processes and tasks within your business. These tasks include inventory management, sifting, sorting, and digitization –– when automated, you can improve your team’s efficiency, reduce your costs, and enhance the overall inventory management experience: better, faster, less time. 

What Does This Mean For You?
Robotics enables you to scale without increasing labor costs.

How Do You List Cards Online? 

  • Sift: Finding and separating worthwhile cards
  • Sort: Physically organizing cards into a sequence (e.g. set / alphabetical)
  • Condition: Determining value based on how well-used the card is
  • Digitize: Creating a digital list associated with a catalog item (e.g. a TCGplayer ID).

Most sellers have trained in-store labor that handles all four of these critical functions. If you’re looking to scale or reduce the time to do these tasks, automation can help. If you have a Roca, the robot can sift, sort, and digitize for you, freeing up your team to work in other areas of your business.

Typical Inventory Timeline
Above we discussed all of the tasks involved to manage and move your inventory. But the question is: how much time does this take to do manually? The below image shows each task and the average amount of time in seconds per card that it takes to complete. Robotics can take most of these tasks off your plate.


3-4 Cents Savings Per Card with Roca
Using a Roca machine can result in considerable savings per card. Last month, the almost 400 machines we have in the field processed over 20 million cards with more than 99% identification on every run of cards. The savings adds up quickly. Plus, using a Roca machine requires minimal expertise –– you don’t need to have trained subject matter experts for the cards you support. Roca allows you to move highly skilled employees to the front of the store to focus on customer acquisition.

Long Term Savings with Roca
On average, sellers break even on their Roca machine at nine months. As a result, this generates long term savings over many years, with many of our Roca customers seeing an increase of $40-50,000 in sales volumes over the first 180 days of owning a machine. The question isn’t how to lower labor costs, but rather how to run your team and business smarter and faster. 

Robots Scale Your Online Business 
Robotics can be key for helping you scale online. They can increase your sales volume with easier and more accurate purchasing of customer collections and bulk, while also enabling you to trade and sell in adjacent games and markets, as the user-friendly nature of the Roca allows operators to navigate and expand into other games with minimal expertise. 


Roca Sorter and Roca Sorter Max
These are the two machines we have available: the Roca Sorter and the Roca Sorter Max. They both sift, sort, and digitize your inventory all in one unit! You can either choose a Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, and Disney Lorcana machine or a Yu-Gi-Oh! machine.


Learn More About Roca 
If you’re interested in learning more, schedule a call with our Roca Sales Representative.