Category: Future of Grocery
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If you’ve ever stopped for food in a one-exit town along the freeway, there’s a good chance your choices primarily consisted of chips, beef jerky, and days-old sandwiches. But what if convenience stores offered tasty, fresh food cooked in-house instead of salty snacks or days-old sandwiches made off-site? That’s the vision of Danish food entrepreneur…
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Today, Amazon announced it had finally given up on the tech-forward grocery store vision it first unveiled nearly a decade ago. In a press release, the company said it would close its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores. The announcement marks the end of an initiative that began with lofty ambitions. After launching its…
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For most of us, the food system isn’t a distant farm or a produce distribution center. It’s the grocery store. We push carts through brightly lit aisles where abstract forces—supply chains, agricultural policy, consumer trends—become tangible reality. The supermarket is where the nation’s entire food apparatus converges in a single, accessible arena. The grocery store…
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This week, Amazon gave a sneak peek at the new AI model that powers its Just Walk Out platform. In a post written by Jon Jenkins, the VP of Just Walk Out (and, as Spoon readers may remember, the former founder of Meld and head of engineering for the Hestan Cue), we get a peek…
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According to a new report just published by researcher Bricks Meets Click, U.S. online grocery sales are expected to hit $120 billion by 2028. The report forecasts that the e-grocery segment will grow at a 4.5% clip over the forecast period, three times the growth rate of the in-store grocery segment, which is forecasted to…
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Earlier this month, we learned that Amazon is phasing out its Just Walk Out technology at its Amazon Fresh grocery stores. The company didn’t say much about the reasoning behind it, but one likely reason is customers never valued skipping the checkout line in a traditional grocery store shopping experience as much as Amazon anticipated.…
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When it comes to technology and grocery shopping, one primary focus for grocery chains and technology providers in recent years has been the checkout experience. Amazon and various other technology companies have been developing platforms to enable consumers to skip the checkout counter. These platforms aim to transform the shopping experience into something akin to…
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According to a story published in The Information, Amazon is planning to pull its Just Walk Out cashierless technology from its large-format grocery store, Amazon Fresh. As part of the move, the company will begin to deploy its Dash smart shopping carts. Like Just Walk Out, the Dash carts have embedded computer vision, allowing customers…
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As the world continues to normalize and behaviors regress to the mean post-pandemic, online grocery shopping is no different. According to a new report from online grocery research firm Bricks Meets Click, online grocery shopping in the U.S. dropped 3.1% in September vs last year, going from $7.8 billion in September 2022 to $7.5 billion…
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Today, Instacart rolled out a slew of new updates to its grocery technology platform, updating capabilities across its white label turnkey digital commerce platform, its AI-powered search capabilities, and new features for its Caper Cart smart shopping cart. The new feature-set rollout marks further integration of the string of acquisitions the company has made over…
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Robomart, the company that introduced the store-hailing concept at CES in 2019 and started rolling out its first pilot store last year, announced a new model for its mobile store concept this week with the Robomart Haven. The Haven, which will join the first-generation Robomart (now named Oasis), will be available for retail partners starting…
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Today Instacart announced that ShopRite in Spotswood, New Jersey, and Fairway Market in Kips Bay, Manhattan are the first two locations to deploy the company’s latest generation smart shopping cart. The new Caper Cart, which the company announced last September, is the third generation of the AI-powered smart shopping cart platform and the first version…
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