Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
Online grocer FreshDirect announced today that it has partnered with Fabric to build out an automated, robotic grocery e-commerce facility in the D.C. Metro Area. This is the first public […]
MissFresh, a Chinese online grocer, announced yesterday that it has raised a $495 million funding round led by China International Capital Corp., with participation from new investors ICBC and the […]
Kroger announced today that it will be building robot-powered fulfillment centers in the Pacific Northwest, Great Lakes and West regions of the U.S. This expansion marks the first such robot […]
Ahold Delhaize is on the lookout for a floor scrubbing robot, and it wants your help. Well, it wants your help if you’re a small startup that already has an […]
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Look. I don’t want to write about COVID-19 again, and you probably want to give your brain something else to think about. But given the impact it is having across […]
Meal delivery by drone is coming to the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland at the end of March, courtesy of the Irish startup, Manna, reports Bloomberg. Manna will run hundreds of […]
When Bloomberg surfaced a report last week giving us a first-look inside Amazon’s new grocery store, we were struck by how conventional it was, especially when it came to automation […]
Ahold Delhaize USA announced this week that it is shutting down the Midwest division of its Peapod online grocery business. Starting Feb 18, customers in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana will […]
You might think a grocery store built by Amazon, which has a history of radically re-thinking existing business processes, would be radically different (instead of shelves, just rows of Star […]
A newly released report from Nielsen and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) saying that online sales of food and beverages will reach $143 billion by 2025 (hat tip to Grocery […]
You know something has officially “made it” when it has its own Super Bowl ad. So by that completely arbitrary standard, it’s safe to say that grocery pickup is now […]
