Online Grocery Farmdrop Raises £10M to Expand Local Food Delivery
When I lived in London last year I used to get really excited when I saw a pale pink van pull up outside my flat. Because inside that van was […]
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Chef’d Puts Meal Kits in Walgreens and Duane Reade Drugstores
Shoppers can pick up prescriptions and a pre-packed dinner at the drugstore, as meal kit company Chef’d has started selling its meal kits at Walgreens and Duane Reade. Supermarket News […]
Target Hits the Midwest and Southeast With Delivery and Pickup Services
Big-box retailer Target just announced the expansion of its Shipt and Drive Up programs into the Midwest and Southeast, as well as new markets for its city-focused Target Restock service. […]
HelloFresh Jumps on Bandwagon to Sell Meal Kits in Grocery Stores
HelloFresh will start selling its meal kits at 600 Giant Food and Stop & Shop locations starting this week, The Wall Street Journal reports, as the meal kit sector’s migration […]
Are We Entering a Frozen Food Renaissance?
Let’s be honest: frozen food does not have the best reputation. From French bread pizzas to bland microwaveable TV meals, the freezer section is usually full of meal options that […]
Kroger Buys Home Chef for $200M as Meal Kits Continue March into Grocery Stores
Kroger announced today that it’s acquiring meal kit company Home Chef for $200 million in a move that illustrates the continued transition of meal kits from a mail-order business to […]
Kroger Invests in Ocado, Will Use UK Grocer’s Tech in U.S.
Grocery giant, Kroger, announced today that it has entered into an exclusive partnership with Ocado, and will use the UK-based online grocer’s logistics and warehouse technology (ROBOTS!) here in the […]
For Good Eggs, the Real Competition is the Smaller Players
Yesterday when online grocery delivery service Good Eggs announced that it had raised a $50 million Series C round, much of the news coverage focused the looming threat of Amazon + […]
Del Monte Invests $4M in Vegan Meal Kit Maker Purple Carrot
Plant-based meal kit company Purple Carrot just announced a $4 million equity investment from Fresh Del Monte Produce. The Needham, Massachusetts-based company reportedly plans to use the money to improve […]
Food Tech News Roundup: Grocery E-Commerce, Food Fraud & Cooking Robot Goes Beta
Food tech news time! We had quite a few updates on the Spoon this week, too. Chris Albrecht launched a brand new podcast about food-related robots and AI called The […]
Food Tech News Roundup: Plastic-Free Grocery Stores, Food Waste Accelerators, & Crowd Cow Tackles Pork
This week certainly kept us busy. Bear Robotics, which we were the first to cover, got a $2M investment, and Amazon opened the door to in-car grocery delivery. We also […]
Highlights From The Future of Recipes Food Tech Meetup
We had our first food tech meetup last night! And thanks to our sponsor ChefSteps, tech-brewed beer from PicoBrew, and our awesome venue Galvanize, it was a rollicking success. Plus […]
