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All of the investments grocery retailers are making into robotic fulfillment, curbside pickup and even self-driving delivery hinge on the idea that shoppers will migrate from their habitual shopping in-store […]
Greetings from California! Hopefully you all have something exciting planned for this first official weekend of summer. But first, food tech news. We rounded up a great crop of stories […]
San Francisco-based vertical farming startup Plenty today unveiled some first glimpses of its new farm, Tigris. According to a press release, the farm will focus on enhancing the flavor of […]
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Both Walmart and Ahold Delhaize expanded their use of robots this year. However, according to two big news stories in less than a week, their entry into the workforce is […]
Coresight Research released its “US Online Grocery Survey 2019” this week, finding that 36.8 percent of U.S. consumers bought groceries online over the past year, representing a jump from 23.1 […]
Today, the USDA announced the launch of a pilot program that will make online grocery shopping available to those receiving SNAP benefits. According to the official press release, “lessons learned […]
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 […]
Bloomberg has a story up today about the Portugal-based startup, Sensei, titled “Amazon Go Faces Unlikely Challenge From Checkout-Free Startup.” The headline caught my eye because it isn’t unlikely at […]
It was no real surprise to read that Amazon brand meal kits are surfacing in select Whole Foods. I was honestly wondering what was taking Bezos and co. so long to […]
Amazon will close all 87 of its pop-up stores in the U.S., including those nestled inside Whole Foods, by the end of April, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. These […]
There’s a scene in Being John Malkovich where the titular character crawls through a portal inside his own head. The result is a crazy world filled with “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich” […]
