Facing Mounting Regulatory Pressures, Amazon Go Will Accept Cash Payments
The whole point of the Amazon Go store was to create a frictionless retail experience where you could walk in, grab what you want, and walk out, paying automatically with […]
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Dig Inn Unearths $20M in New Funding, Plans Full-Service Restaurant
“Sometimes I wonder if we’ve been willing to try and fail too much, but it’s this relentless experimentation that has gotten us to where we are today,” Dig Inn founder […]
Albertsons Lays Off 10 Percent of Plated’s Corporate Staff
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 […]
Uber Eats’ New Features Trying to Put ‘Hospitality’ Back in the Hospitality Industry
This morning, Uber Eats announced via email some redesigned elements as well as new features to its app. The new additions appear to be aimed at giving customers as much […]
Crowdfunded Home Beer Maker iGulu Appears to Be a Goner
If you love beer and are contemplating backing a crowdfunded home brew machine – don’t. This free advice is brought to you by more than a year of covering Kickstarted […]
Target (Finally) Enters the Shoppable Recipe Game with Cooklist
Yesterday Target announced that it was kicking off a partnership with shoppable recipe startup Cooklist (h/t Dallas News). The retail giant will launch the new service first in 47 Dallas-Fort Worth stores and […]
Your Restaurant Job Is Still Safe From the Robots, According to a New Report
It’s that time again, folks. Each year, the National Restaurant Association (NRA) releases a State of the Restaurant Industry Report that identifies the current state of restaurants as well as […]
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Walmart Broadens Robotic Workforce with More Autonomous Shelf-Scanners and Floor Scrubbers
Walmart appears to be going all-in on robots, as The Wall Street Journal reports today that the retail giant is adding a host of robots to the front and back […]
Innit Enables Customizable Meal Kits With Shoppable Recipe Integration
For about a year, I was a regular user of Blue Apron meal kits. While I generally liked the curated weekly recipes the one-time meal kit darling suggested, on occasion […]
Smart Spirits Uses Flavor Pods to Re-Create Booze (but Not Mixed Drinks)
Smart Spirits is a new entrant in the at-home, pod-based, connected countertop cocktail appliance market (hat tip to The Drinks Business). Though unlike it’s competition, Smart Spirits doesn’t make mixed […]
Intello Labs Raises $2M, Takes its AI to the Skies with Drones for Crop Assessments
Intello Labs, which uses computer vision and AI to assess food quality, announced last week that it has raised a $2 million seed round from Nexus Venture Partners and Omnivore. […]
Maple Leaf Foods to Build the Largest Plant-Based Protein Factory in North America
Today Maple Leaf Foods, a Canadian packaged meat company and owner of vegan food brands Lightlife and Field Roast, announced plans to build a $310 million plant-based protein factory in […]