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

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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. 

By Grocery Dive staff

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

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.

April 10, 2023

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

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

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

Automation drives retail labor efficiencies

Labor challenges affect the whole store, especially production and service-intensive departments such as bakeries.

March 20, 2023

The Friday Checkout: Automation takes center stage

Grocers have been turning to a variety of tech, robotics and AI to boost customer experience, speed up processes on the retail floor and streamline supply chain management.

By Grocery Dive Staff • March 16, 2023

Kroger sees e-commerce as future profit engine

The retailer is looking to its automation partnership with Ocado and its young retail media business to help achieve its goal of making money online, Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen said Wednesday.

By Sam Silverstein • March 16, 2023

UNFI adds robots, scanning tech to its ‘transformation agenda’

The wholesaler and retailer unveiled plans for new digital capabilities at a Washington state distribution center a week after reporting that its profits took a nosedive in the second quarter.

By Peyton Bigora • March 15, 2023

Kroger to deploy driverless trucks in Dallas

The grocer plans to begin using vehicles from autonomous-vehicle supplier Gatik to transport products between an e-commerce warehouse and several stores during the second quarter of 2023.

By Sam Silverstein • March 15, 2023

BJ’s to roll out inventory robots chainwide

The club retailer is following grocers including Schnuck Markets, Hy-Vee and The Save Mart Companies in deploying Simbe Robotics’s automated vehicles, which use computer vision-driven cameras to scan shelves.

By Sam Silverstein • March 14, 2023