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Loblaws, Canada’s largest grocery chain, announced this week that it was piloting Takeoff Technologies‘ robot-powered micro-fulfillment center in one of its stores. Supermarket News reports that the two companies have […]
We’ve written a lot about micro-fulfillment as an emerging trend to watch in grocery retail. Micro-fulfillment involves a store building out a robot-driven system in the back of house to […]
Takeoff Technologies, which builds automated microfulfillment centers for grocery retailers, announced today that it has raised a $25 million Series C round of funding led by Forrestal Capital. This brings […]
Wakefern Food Corp. announced yesterday that it has partnered with Takeoff Technologies to build an automated fulfillment center in Cliffton, NJ. The center will fulfill orders for online shoppers at […]
I get that it’s supposed to be three of something to make a trend, but the fact that two different companies a world apart made robot-fulfillment center opening announcements on […]
If it’s true that it takes three occurrences of something to make it a trend, then in-store robot fulfillment centers are now officially a trend in the U.S. Reuters reports […]
Albertsons announced today it will pilot a new micro-fulfillment center in one of its grocery stores using Takeoff‘s robot-powered technology. The deal marks the first time a nationwide grocery chain […]
Two-hour delivery may grab the lion’s share of headlines in the grocery news world, but store curbside pickup could wind up being a sleeping giant. Case in point: Walmart announced […]
This fall, startup Takeoff will be launching its first hyperlocal grocery micro-fulfillment center powered by robots and artificial intelligence (AI). Whew! There’s a lot to unpack in that opener, mostly because Takeoff […]
In looking at Brick Meets Click/Mercatus online grocery sales data since March of this year, you might start to worry. After matching a record high of $9.3 billion in total […]
Uber’s grocery delivery service is now available in more than 400 cities across the U.S., according to an announcement sent to The Spoon. The company has also added Albertsons retail […]
Grocery delivery company Instacart announced today that it is appointing Fidji Simo as its new CEO effective August 2. Simo has been on Instacart’s board since January of this year. […]
