Shipt will begin same-day delivery from Lin’s Fresh Market and Target in St. George, Utah, beginning Sept. 11. The delivery service originally launched in Ogden, Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah, in May 2018, and this launch gives more than 750,000 households across the state access to products delivered by Shipt in as little as […]
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Wegmans Partners With Tech Company To Aid Vision-Impaired Shoppers
Wegmans Food Markets has partnered with Aira to give blind and low-vision shoppers access to Aira’s technology while shopping in Wegmans stores. Aira is a San Diego-based startup that makes use of wearable technology, artificial intelligence and live, human assistance to deliver visual description for people who are blind or have low vision. Using a smartphone or […]
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Acuity Brands Opens Interactive Grocery Store Innovation Center
Acuity Brands Inc. this week launched its Grocery Store Innovation Center, where grocery retailers can receive a demonstration and interact with the latest Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, such as indoor location-based services. Located in Acuity’s Center for Light + Space in Atlanta, Georgia, the Innovation Center features lighting-based IoT solutions that can enable what Acuity […]
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Ricker’s Bringing Hybrid Checkout Platform To All Stores
C-store chain Ricker’s is rolling out a new checkout experience with Skip, a mobile checkout platform, to all of its 58 Indiana stores. The retailer describes the technology as a hybrid of mobile pay and AmazonGo’s “just walk out” program. Ricker’s says the mission of its partnership with Skip is to provide a best-in-class c-store […]
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Raley’s Launches New Pharmacy Mobile App With Mscripts
Through a new partnership, Raley’s is integrating mscripts’ mobile pharmacy solutions with a new Raley’s pharmacy app, Rx Refill On-The-Go. The app will offer a new tool that will support text notifications when a prescription is ready for pick up and a refill is due to be ordered. Customers will be able to use the mobile and web […]
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Kroger Begins Testing Driverless Delivery
The Kroger Co. and Nuro have selected Scottsdale, Arizona, as the city for their self-driving grocery delivery pilot, which kicked off Aug. 16. Earlier this summer, Kroger and Nuro, maker of driverless delivery vehicles, announced a partnership to begin testing grocery delivery using Nuro’s robots. Customers can place same-day delivery orders through Kroger’s ClickList ordering system or […]
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Simbe Robotics, Advantage Solutions Pilot Shelf-Scanning Robot
In what they say is a first-of-its-kind pilot program, Advantage Solutions’ digital technology division and Simbe Robotics, developer of autonomous, shelf-scanning robot Tally, are working with global consumer goods manufacturers to identify on-shelf opportunities and provide a better shopping experience for consumers. Tally collected real-time shelf data from Schnucks stores, which Advantage then analyzed and […]
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Gourmet Garage Celebrates E-Commerce Upgrades With Free Delivery
Self Point, a digital commerce partner for supermarkets and specialty food retailers, has assisted with online and mobile shopping upgrades for Gourmet Garage, a Manhattan grocer with the motto of inviting customers to “Shop Like a Chef.” Self Point’s e-commerce technology supports Gourmet Garage locations in New York’s Uptown Lincoln Square Center area and Downtown, with […]