Shoppers are using their smartphones more during their in-store visits for things like contactless checkout, scanning QR codes for product information, looking up discounts/promos and downloading digital coupons. Convenience is a driving factor for this trend, with more than 70 percent of respondents wanting to use technology to get through the visit faster, but shoppers […]
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Plant Based World Expo Comes Back To New York In December
Plant Based World Expo North America, a plant-based event designed exclusively for a B2B audience, returns to New York on Dec. 9-10 at the Javits Center. This event combines a world-class conference with an exhibition showcasing thousands of innovative plant-based products and brands from around the world, plus high-level networking and tasting opportunities. PBW is […]
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Kroger Delivery Expanding Through New Fulfillment Centers
The Kroger Co. will offer more customers Kroger Delivery through the addition of new fulfillment centers powered by the Ocado Group, combining vertical integration, machine learning and robotics to provide an affordable and fast fresh food delivery service. “Kroger Delivery is a thriving part of our dynamic ecosystem and is transforming grocery e-commerce and meeting a range […]
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CommerceIQ Integrates With Instacart For CIQ Advertising
CommerceIQ, an e-commerce management platform provider, has integrated with Instacart, an online grocery delivery platform in North America. Brands can now drive market share on this channel via a new API integration and product offering called CIQ Advertising for Instacart. The new product enables brands like Pilgrim’s Pride to obtain real-time visibility across all their […]
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EFI Announces Leadership Team Advisory Group
Equitable Food Initiative, the workforce development and certification organization that partners with growers, farmworkers, retailers and consumer groups, has formed its leadership team advisory group as a standing committee of its board of directors. The group is made up of farmworkers and production managers from certified farms who have completed EFI’s leadership team program training […]
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Giant Eagle Selects StorMagic For Data, Encryption Key Management
Giant Eagle Inc., a U.S. food, fuel and pharmacy retailer, has selected StorMagic SvSAN virtual SAN software and SvKMS encryption key management to ensure uptime and safeguard data in its 200-plus supermarkets with in-store pharmacies. After experiencing challenges with its aging physical SAN solution, rising maintenance costs and sourcing issues with the solution’s self-encrypting disk drives, the Giant Eagle […]
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Meat Institute Selects Inaugural Class Of Emerging Leaders
The North American Meat Institute has selected 20 participants for its inaugural Emerging Leaders Program, which will apply the vision of its Protein PACT to future industry executives who proved themselves ready to take the next step in their leadership journey. This program – sponsored by the Food Safety Net Services – will prepare the winners with […]
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Meat Department Sales Rise Above 2020 Levels In August
by Anne-Marie Roerink / president, 210 Analytics LLC The multi-month normalization of grocery shopping patterns came to a halt in August. “Since January 2021, we had been seeing the share of meals prepared at home decrease a little each month,” said Jonna Parker, team lead Fresh with IRI. “However, with the elevation of COVID-19 cases […]