Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
Happy election day! While poking around the internet last night reading election coverage, we noticed a Spoon reader comment that Boston meal kit company Just Add Cooking (JAC) has ceased […]
Amazon is reportedly going to split its forthcoming new co-headquarters across two cities. If that report turns out to be true, you can rest assured that each of those towns […]
Storied convenience store chain 7-Eleven launched a new Scan & Pay pilot program today that lets shoppers use their mobile phone for self-checkout. The new feature launched in 14 Dallas area […]
Amazon Go is finally expanding into America’s tech capital, as the first of two locations for the cashierless convenience stores opens today in downtown San Francisco. Today’s launch follows Amazon […]
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UPDATE: Since the time of this post, we learned that the second Go store is actually smaller. In addition to expanding the number of locations of its Go stores, Amazon […]
Microsoft is reportedly working on its own cashierless checkout technology in a bid to take on cross-town rival, Amazon, according to a story in Reuters. The reported technology is similar […]
All_ebt, the Los Angeles startup that helps people on food stamps purchase groceries and other approved goods online, is going bi-coastal and adding a second pop-up store in Charlotte, NC […]
Pete Davidson plays a recurring character on Saturday Night Live named Chad. The joke is that when presented with extraordinary circumstances, Chad just nonchalantly replies “OK!” Nothing phases him. That’s […]
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Amazon is delaying the public opening of its first fully automated grocery store known as Amazon Go. The store, which has only been […]
This week, Amazon announced a new platform called Amazon Anywhere that enables the discovery and purchase of physical products from within virtual environments such as virtual and augmented reality and […]
Amazon announced today that its pay-with-your-palm technology, Amazon One, is now available at the Amazon Go store at 11 W 42nd St in New York City. This marks the first […]
