The Looma Project has unveiled Loop At-Shelf Maker Stories in more than 150 Kroger banner Harris Teeter stores and 50 North Carolina-based Lowes Foods stores. Loop is a network of tablets that play short videos connecting consumers to the people behind their products. The platform also enables retailers and brands to understand how shoppers are responding […]
Category: Online Grocery Technology
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Beauty By H-E-B With Trained Advisors Added In San Antonio Store
H-E-B launched its first Beauty by H-E-B department in San Antonio on Nov. 8. The retailer says it is a highly-curated department with an expanded selection of brands and an experienced team of trained “beauty advisors” to provide expert advice and customer service. “Beauty by H-E-B provides that oasis within the store where the customer […]
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Pure Market Launches Its E-Commerce, Product Grading Platform
Denver, Colorado-based Pure Market, an e-commerce and product grading platform, has launched with ratings for thousands of consumer food and household products across a range of categories. The platform was created to empower consumers to make more informed shopping decisions based on analytical chemistry-based research culled from scientific lab testing for harmful elements such as […]
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Alex Lee Using AI Technologies In Its MDI Wholesale Biz
To support its wholesale distribution business, Merchants Distributors (MDI), Alex Lee is implementing Demand ForecastingAI and Warehouse Replenishment from Symphony RetailAI, a global provider of AI-enabled revenue growth management solutions and customer-centric insights for retailers and CPG manufacturers across the entire value chain. Headquartered in Hickory, North Carolina, MDI supplies more than 600 retail food stores with food […]
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Smart & Final Introduces New Online Shopping Options Through Mercatus
Commerce, California-based Smart & Final, the grocery warehouse store for household and business customers, launched two customized online shopping portals at SmartandFinal.com and Business.SmartandFinal.com. The new platforms are powered by technology partner Mercatus and delivered by Shipt, TForce and others who provide fulfillment of household and business orders. Household customers now can view weekly specials on Smart […]
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ReposiTrak Solution Cuts Out-of-Stocks An Average Of 39 Percent
ReposiTrak Inc., solutions provider for out-of-stock replenishment, sourcing, food safety and risk management for the retail supply chain, reports that 80 percent of the 200 vendors using its OOS Management Solution saw an average reduction of 39 percent in out-of-stocks in less than three months. Those reductions occurred across nine different retailers with more than 12,175 […]
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Counter Culture Coffee Debuts Single-Serve With Steeped Brewing
Santa Cruz, California-based Steeped Coffee is working with Counter Culture Coffee to transform its specialty whole bean roasted coffees into single-serve steeped bags that are brewed similar to tea. Each coffee bag is nitro-sealed for freshness in packaging made from compostable and renewable materials. “Steeped’s process produces a cup that is nearly indistinguishable from traditionally brewed coffee—and that […]
