Barrows Connected Store and QSIC announced a strategic partnership designed to unify in-store audio and digital video into a single, data-driven retail media platform. The deal connects Barrows’ ConnectOS-powered in-store digital video network with QSIC’s intelligent audio platform, enabling synchronized multi-sensory campaigns measured against real-world transaction data. The core problem the partnership addresses is straightforward: […]
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Ravyx Promotes Desroches To Chief Technology Officer
Ravyx has promoted Francis Desroches to chief technology officer, overseeing customer outcome initiatives, managing strategic vendor partnerships and expanding collaboration efforts across North America. Desroches has been with the company since 2015, joining when it operated under the SIR Solutions name. During his tenure, he has helped build the company’s operational infrastructure, led development of […]
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National Rural Grocery Summit Focusing On Innovation
The National Rural Grocery Summit will be held May 5-7 in Fargo, North Dakota. The event was created by the Rural Grocery Initiative out of Kansas State University, with the first summit held in 2008 in Kansas. Since then, the summit has grown to attract rural grocers, community leaders, food suppliers, academic researchers, healthy food […]
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Save A Lot Begins ‘Bacon For A Year’ Sweepstakes
Save A Lot is running a Bacon for a Year sweepstakes through March 31, offering one winner a $500 gift card – the equivalent of a 12 months’ supply of the chain’s Farmington bacon brand. Customers can enter through the Save A Lot app or by mail. No purchase is necessary. A winner will be […]
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Leadership, Math And Power Of Perspective
The leadership lesson this month is part math and part perspective lesson. It’s one of those ideas that, once we truly see it, permanently changes how we think about the grocery business. We may even look back later and realize it was one of those moments that quietly – but decisively – turned the tide […]
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Spring Bringing New Ice Cream Choices To Freezer Cases
The ice cream industry is entering the warmer months with a wave of product launches and retail expansions, as manufacturers compete for freezer-aisle attention with novel flavors, premium ingredients and high-profile brand collaborations. Announcements from Cold Case Ice Cream, Tillamook, Hudsonville Ice Cream and I Love Ice Cream Cakes in the week leading up to […]
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Afresh Expands AI Platform To Cover Full Store
Afresh, a grocery artificial intelligence company that built its platform around fresh department complexity, has announced that its system now covers every department in the store, including center store, frozen, general merchandise, health and beauty and the full fresh perimeter. The expansion makes Afresh the only grocery AI platform capable of managing replenishment, demand forecasting, […]
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Instacart, NVIDIA Build AI Platform to Unify In-Store, Online Grocery Retail
Instacart is building what it calls a “grocery world model” – a continuous learning artificial intelligence system that connects physical store data from its Caper Cart smart shopping carts with its online commerce platform in collaboration with NVIDIA. The initiative represents how it intends to use its scale across 2,200-plus retail banners and 100,000-plus locations […]