Category: Grocery
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Last week, grocery AI startup Afresh announced it is expanding beyond its original focus on the fresh food aisles to manage inventory, ordering, and replenishment across the entire store. The company said its AI platform will now cover everything from produce and meat to center store items and general merchandise, allowing retailers to manage replenishment,…
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Grabango, a grocery-tech startup that raised over $93 million for its cashierless checkout technology, is shutting down, The Spoon has learned. The closure follows the company’s inability to secure the necessary funding to continue operations. In a statement to The Spoon, Grabango said: “Grabango announced today it has permanently discontinued operations. Although the company established…
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Choice Market, the Denver-based convenience store chain known for blending a focus on fresh and high-quality food with a tech-forward approach to retail, has closed permanently. CEO Mike Fogarty announced via Linkedin that the company will be closing its doors permanently after months of attempting to navigate a reorganization process. “This is a tough post…
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Next up in our Smart Kitchen Summit speaker preview series is Spencer Price, the founder of Halla. Halla has built an AI personalization and recommendation platform for grocery store providers. According to Price, the turning point for his company and the broader grocery store industry was when Amazon acquired Whole Foods. “When Amazon acquired Whole Foods…
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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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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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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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While online grocery shopping continued to grow last year, where people shopped shifted significantly according to a new report from grocery researcher Brick Meets Click. The new report, which details the egrocery performance for different retail formats, said Walmart was the big winner in 2022 as more and more customers looked for ways to save…
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Today Verneek, a New York-based generative AI startup, came out of stealth with the debut of its first product, Quin Shopping AI. The product is the first to utilize the company’s proprietary AI platform called One Quin. The company, which was co-founded by the husband and wife team of Omid Bakhshandeh and Nasrin Mostafazadeh, spent…
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It seems almost a lifetime ago when, in 2021, a gaggle of ultra-fast grocery store startups with interesting names like GoPuff and Gorillas raised gonzo amounts of cash. We all know what happened since the go-go funding days of the quick grocery boom. While I wouldn’t call last year’s pullback a canary in the coal…
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JackBe, which claims to be the country’s first curbside drive-thru grocer, opened its first location this week in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, according to a release sent to The Spoon. The store will allow customers to place orders via the JackBe app and pick up their groceries at a drive-thru bay, where a JackBe employee will…
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Afresh Technologies, a fresh food management technology company, has announced the rollout of its predictive ordering and inventory management platform to more than 2,200 Albertsons Companies stores in the United States, including Safeway, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Vons and ACME. The platform, which helps store teams to better order and plan fresh produce inventory, reducing food waste…
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