Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
Uber’s grocery delivery service is now available in more than 400 cities across the U.S., according to an announcement sent to The Spoon. The company has also added Albertsons retail […]
Google and Albertsons announced a wide-ranging, multi-year partnership today that will see a range of high-tech features added to consumer grocery shopping across more than 2,200 Albertsons stores. According to […]
Indoor ag company Bowery Farming announced today a partnership with Albertsons that will put Bowery’s vertically grown greens into hundreds of grocery stores. From today, Bowery produce is available at […]
Grocery giant Albertsons announced today that it has partnered with Tortoise to pilot remote-controlled robot grocery delivery at two Safeway stores in Northern California. Tortoise is a little different from […]
Grocery retailer Albertsons announced today that it is piloting a new automated kiosk for grocery pickup. The kiosk is located at one of the company’s Jewel-Osco stores in Chicago. The […]
Albertsons announced today that it will pilot temperature-controlled lockers as an added pickup option for its grocery customers. The lockers, delivered by Bell and Howell, are modular, can be installed […]
Albertsons is adding more micro-fulfillment centers (MFC) from Takeoff Technologies in an effort to keep up with grocery e-commerce, according to a story in Supermarket News. Takeoff Technologies’ MFCs use […]
Grocery retailer Albertsons and Takeoff Technologies announced today that they are forming a strategic partnership with a dedicated teams to “collaborate on the evolution of microfulfillment,” according to the press […]
Albertsons struck another nail in the coffin of mail order meal kits yesterday when the company announced that it will be ending its Plated subscription service and shifting that brand […]
A recurring theme during our recent ArticulATE food robot and automation conference was the issue of human labor. What do you do when machines displace people in the workforce? It’s a […]
Albertsons-owned meal kit service Plated laid off roughly 10 percent of its corporate staff, according to Bloomberg. The cost-cutting move follows news from last month that Albertsons was scaling back […]
We are excited to officially announce the full speaker (and robot!) lineup and agenda for our upcoming ArticulATE Food Robotics Summit. The one-day conference will be held on April 16 […]
