All Technology articles – Page 23
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NewsIT glitch sees Tesco online customer orders cancelled
Customers found their orders had been cancelled at short notice, with the supermarket warning them it was “unable to reschedule these orders”
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NewsAsda appoints new retail media network operator
Research by Boston Consulting Group suggests advertising on retailers’ owned channels offers “robust margins” of 70% to 90%
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NewsLidl’s winning Christmas credited to loyalty app
Customer data gathered through the Lidl Plus app is seen as having enabled the discounter to better land key festive ranges at the optimum time
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NewsLab-grown meat set for green light under FSA plans
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) will put forward options for a streamlined system of testing at its next meeting on 20 March
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Comment & OpinionCould Pret’s subscription scheme work in grocery?
You have to admire Club Pret, but it may carry risks, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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NewsSainsbury’s taps StrongPoint for manual picking solution
StrongPoint’s in-store manual picking solution – which the company claims to be the world’s fastest and most efficient – is being rolled out estate wide
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NewsUK’s first university campus robot deliveries commence
Peyk robots are available for grocery stores, cafés and restaurants to offer deliveries to students, but can also be booked by students for ‘peer to peer’ deliveries
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NewsSimplyFresh to roll out Amazon’s JWO tech across three more stores in 2024
It launched the tech for the first time last month at its LittleFresh branded forecourt store – its smaller format that focuses on food to go – at Gatwick Airport
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Comment & OpinionWhen it comes to retail media, which fmcg brand advertiser are you?
More money is being invested in retail media – and for good reason, says Katie Streeter-Hurle, head of strategy, SMG
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NewsTHG to run Holland & Barrett’s e-commerce operation during supply chain overhaul
An unspecified number of roles are thought to be affected by the changes, but H&B said it would work to ‘minimise’ any redundancies
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NewsHelloFresh fined £140k over ‘deluge’ of spam marketing messages
HelloFresh says it has changed its text and email marketing policy after being fined £140,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office
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NewsAldi adds contactless card payment option to Shop&Go store
Shoppers can now simply tap their payment card at the barrier to enter
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Analysis & FeaturesHow GrowUp Farms is growing UK salad supply year round
From a small unit in London, GrowUp Farms has taken its vertical farming business to a larger site in Kent, where it supplies the likes of Tesco with British-grown salad
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NewsMilk & More CEO Patrick Müller steps down following sale to Freshways
Following the completion of the deal on 1 January, Müller has transferred back to Müller UK & Ireland
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NewsSainsbury’s launches EV charging business in supermarket first
Smart Charge will be fully owned and operated by Sainsbury’s
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NewsInfluencer recipe grocery shopping platform Cartd launches
The platform translates recipe videos into the featured constituent ingredients to create pre-built shopping baskets on its website
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Comment & OpinionCan Aldi really leverage a successful retail media network?
Retailers are seemingly unable to ignore the promise of launching their own retail media networks. The margins are hard to pass by
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Comment & OpinionWhy Tesco’s Unpacked lacks the shareable spark of Spotify Wrapped
Tesco’s shopping Unpacked has landed on the Tesco app, collating users’ loyalty card data from throughout 2023 to break down their individual habits
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NewsIceland roll out staff headsets across store estate
The estate-wide rollout – expected to complete by April – follows a successful trial in select stores last year
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NewsAldi explores retail media network potential with ‘centre of excellence’
It is understood work on the retail media network is at an early stage, with the discounter recruiting media analysts and experts ahead of its “creation, launch and rollout”