I’m Not Ready to Eat at Restaurants Yet, Are You?
And now, a tale of two takeouts. For the first time in months, I left the house to actually set foot in a restaurant over the weekend. Both trips were […]
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Kroger to Build Three Robot-Powered Fulfillment Centers in the Pac. Northwest, Great Lakes and West Regions
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 […]
Amazon Adds 11 More States Where SNAP Participants Can Buy Groceries Online
Amazon announced yesterday that it has expanded the number of states in which supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) participants can buy groceries online through the retail giant. (h/t TechCrunch) In […]
Survey: 60 Percent of US Shoppers “Fearful” of Shopping Inside Grocery Stores
If coronavirus has you a little nervous about buying your food at the actual supermarket, you’re not alone. Results of a new survey from C+R Research shows that 60 percent […]
Will Fear of Grocery Contamination Boost Sales of CSAs and Specialized E-Grocers?
I knew it was going to be a great day when I opened up my Twitter feed morning and immediately saw a CNN story about a woman who was arrested […]
Newsletter: Shapeshifting To Survive During COVID-19
We knew that The Spoon’s first ever Virtual Strategy Summit would be around COVID-19. After all, the virus is the reason we had to make the summit virtual in the […]
Report: Walmart+ to Take on Amazon Prime
Walmart is working on a new membership offering to take on Amazon Prime. Recode was first to report on the forthcoming Walmart+, which will broaden Walmart’s grocery Delivery Unlimited service […]
Soft Robotics Raises $23M Series B for its Gripping Tech
Soft Robotics, which makes grippers for robots so they can handle odd-shaped and delicate items like food, announced today that it has raised a $23 million Series B round of […]
Walmart Boosts Bossa Nova’s Robotic Shelf Scanning to 1,000 Stores
Walmart is adding another 650 Bossa Nova robots to its roster, Bloomberg reported this morning, bringing the total number of the shelf scanning bots to 1,000 by the end of […]
Do We Really Need Robots in Our Kitchens for Convenience?
If there is any universal idea in this world, it’s that we’re all looking to get back a little time. Countless startups are built around this notion and our meal […]
Sony Sets up AI Unit to Work on Food
Sony announced this week that is has launched Sony AI, a new organization that will research and develop artificial intelligence specifically for games, imaging and sensors, and “gastronomy.” The new […]
Bossa Nova Unveils New Shelf-Scanning Robot with Fresh Food Inventory Monitoring
Bossa Nova today announced its next-generation of shelf-scanning robot dubbed, appropriately enough, the Bossa Nova 2020, which will make its debut at the National Retail Federation show this coming January. […]
