Kroger unveils plans to test market home delivery via driverless cars. The grocer with 119 locations in Arizona is part of the Kroger chain. Kroger confirmed Thursday it will begin testing driverless grocery delivery in suburban Phoenix. Customers of the supermarket giant's subsidiary Fry's in Scottsdale, Arizona will be able to place online orders starting Thursday. Grocery orders can be scheduled for same-day or next-day delivery though a fleet of self-driving vehicles.

"You will be the go-to-person on the ground as we launch our first satellite office/city," Nuro says in a help wanted posting on its website. As "city manager," you'd manage a fleet of vehicles that have no seats for humans yet will supposedly negotiate the roadways with human motorists without creating snarls and pileups. Nuro's also looking for a fleet technician and shift manager, who'll also be based in Phoenix. It seems that the job offerings are part of a driverless grocery delivery plan by Nuro and retail giant Kroger. Neither company will confirm that Phoenix will be the site of the pilot program.

Kroger plans to test driverless grocery delivery. As long as there have been grocery stores, there have been grocery delivery services. Now, Kroger is testing whether customers want their groceries delivered by no one. Kroger announced Thursday that it is teaming up with Nuro, a robotics company, to try out a driverless delivery service. Under the project, consumers would place grocery orders on Kroger's ClickList ordering system.

Today, Kroger announced it is partnering with self-driving vehicle startup Nuro in order to deliver groceries directly to customers' homes, according to Reuters. It's not clear where the test program will take place. Nuro is still obtaining regulatory approval for the project to take place. Nuro's vehicles differ from most other automated cars and trucks on the road because they are designed to operate without a person in them. These small vehicles are solely intended to deliver goods.