Technology: Page 13
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Q&A
Will frictionless checkout ever take off in retail?
Standard AI CEO Jordan Fisher acknowledged that the technology has “been a really hard market to start growing,” but believes it will expand alongside other AI-driven innovations.
By Sam Silverstein • April 27, 2023 -
Instacart rolls out inflation-fighting tools for customers
Customers now have access to a “Stores to Help You Save” section on the main screen, AI-driven recommendations for previously bought items that are on sale and discounts for buying larger quantities of certain products.
By Catherine Douglas Moran • April 26, 2023 -
Trendline
Fresh food innovation
From new delivery services to technology designed to battle food waste, fresh foods and the ways grocers sell them are rapidly evolving.
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As store brand competition intensifies, a new automated tool lets retailers compare products
Pricing information supplier Datasembly is positioning its Product Matching service, which draws on publicly available data, as a way to help retailers differentiate private label items.
By Sam Silverstein • April 26, 2023 -
Self-checkout is now the dominant checkout format in grocery, study says
The front-end terminals, which many grocers have turned to as a way of lowering costs, accounted for 55% of transactions in 2022, according to shopper insights firm VideoMining.
By Peyton Bigora • April 26, 2023 -
Q&A
How a regional grocer balances sustainable efforts with its bottom line
Harmons Neighborhood Grocer’s first-ever director of sustainability, Kate Whitbeck, shares how the supermarket chain turned its green mission into a C-suite and financial priority.
By Peyton Bigora • April 20, 2023 -
Lunds & Byerlys turns to AI and computer vision to reduce food waste
The grocer predicts utilizing Phood Solution’s technology to minimize loss at its deli bars will reduce its annual food waste by 150,000 pounds.
By Peyton Bigora • April 19, 2023 -
Asset protection’s role is evolving in retail. Here are 5 things for grocers to know.
This shift to focusing on the holistic protection of people, profits, property and brand has sped up as heightened stress brought on by the pandemic has increased the risk for violence.
By Catherine Douglas Moran , Peyton Bigora • April 13, 2023 -
Grocery TV looks to bigger screens to grab shoppers’ attention
The in-store retail media network has installed 32-inch video monitors in ShopRite locations in the New York City area to show ads.
By Sam Silverstein • April 13, 2023 -
Denver Whole Foods stores introduce Amazon technology
Eleven of the specialty grocery chain’s locations are now equipped with Amazon One technology, and one will welcome Amazon’s Dash Cart in the coming weeks.
By Peyton Bigora • April 11, 2023 -
Sponsored by ECRS
Tried and tested: ECRS’ Unified Transaction Logic® is simply the best POS solution for this local Nashville retailer
For the past decade, ECRS has equipped local retailers to compete and win against big box competitors. See how CATAPULT®’s Unified Transaction Logic® changed the game for Nashville’s hottest natural grocery chain.
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Walmart to install EV chargers at thousands of stores by 2030
The big-box retailer already has around 1,300 chargers at 280 of its sites but plans to further leverage its vast network.
By Jessica Loder • April 7, 2023 -
UNFI completes 8th and largest solar array installation
The solar array is part of a green-energy project that also includes LED lighting retrofits at 33 distribution centers to support the company’s Better for All initiative.
By Peyton Bigora • April 6, 2023 -
Walmart banks on stores, robots as it stokes e-commerce
The retail giant expects that within three years, 55% of its fulfillment center volume will move through automated facilities and a whopping 65% of its stores will be automated to some extent.
By Daphne Howland • April 5, 2023 -
Albertsons expands health benefits card partnerships
The grocer is now working with fintech company FIS, which has several supplemental health benefits administrators on its payment platform, and is starting to accept benefit cards from Soda Health.
By Catherine Douglas Moran • April 3, 2023 -
London court dismisses AutoStore patent suit against Ocado
The ruling by the U.K. High Court last week represents a key victory for Ocado, which is developing robotic order-fulfillment centers for Kroger and other grocery chains.
By Sam Silverstein • April 3, 2023 -
Dollar General launches new retail media capability with Meta
The partnership allows advertisers to discern how messages they deliver to shoppers via the social networking company’s platforms relate to in-store sales.
By Peyton Bigora • March 30, 2023 -
Kroger has reportedly slowed Ocado robotic tech rollout
The grocer wants to be sure the automated customer fulfillment centers it has brought on line so far work “as well as they can before they roll out loads,” Ocado CEO Tim Steiner said, according to a Reuters story Tuesday.
By Sam Silverstein • March 29, 2023 -
Deep Dive
Organized retail crime is growing. Here’s what grocers are doing about it.
Retailers have seen a recent increase in these incidents, and grocers are particularly at risk because of the wide variety of sought-after items they sell.
By Peyton Bigora • March 27, 2023 -
DoorDash to offer SNAP online purchasing for grocery orders
The e-commerce and delivery provider is also planning to grow the availability of produce on its marketplace and promote healthy products there.
By Catherine Douglas Moran • March 27, 2023 -
Instacart scaling food as medicine with tools for health providers
The company also announced new ad capabilities for weighted products and four new research studies in conjunction with a White House event focused on hunger and nutrition.
By Catherine Douglas Moran • March 24, 2023 -
Column
The Friday Checkout: Giant Eagle pushes out its tech-minded leader
The retailer brought robots to its stores, became a cashierless-checkout pioneer and hatched plans for a tech campus during more than a decade under CEO Laura Shapira Karet’s leadership.
By Grocery Dive Staff • March 24, 2023 -
Sam’s Club bridges online and in-store data gap
Through the retailer’s new feature, advertisers can now gather real-time, first-party insights on members’ in-store purchases.
By Peyton Bigora • March 22, 2023 -
Walmart ramps up connected TV ambitions
The retailer is integrating solutions from Innovid, including a creative optimization tool, with Walmart DSP as premium video becomes a retail media battleground.
By Peter Adams • March 21, 2023 -
Schnucks rolls out tech-enabled salad bars as it jumps back into self-service
In March, the grocer opened the first of 22 AI-driven self-service stations from Picadeli that it plans to install, a company official said.
By Sam Silverstein • March 20, 2023 -
Sponsored by Kwik Lok
Automation drives retail labor efficiencies
Labor challenges affect the whole store, especially production and service-intensive departments such as bakeries.
March 20, 2023