All Technology articles – Page 43
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Amazon chooses Sevenoaks for first checkout-free Fresh store outside London
The store is the 19th Amazon Fresh store to open in the UK, the first of which opened in Ealing in March last year
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Ocado taps investors for £578m to boost global tech rollout
Ocado has raised £578m via a discounted share placement to boost the rollout of its technology amid the global shift to online grocery.
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Deliveroo’s rapid grocery arm Hop launches ‘as-a-service’ model
Deliveroo will provide its “Hop operating expertise, inventory management and picking technology” to retailers
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Lloyds Pharmacy extends Deliveroo tie-up to 150 stores
Lloyds Pharmacy was among the first non-food takeaway retailers to partner with the courier platform
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Agronomics takes 47% stake in biotch firm Liberation Labs
London-listed cellular agriculture group Agronomics is amongst the early-stage backers of biotch firm Liberation Labs
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Snappy Shopper COO Mark Steven exits business
Steven joined as CEO in March 2019 prior to seed funding, before becoming group COO in April 2021
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Analysis and Features
Can government’s new strategy help boost UK food production?
Government wants to up UK output – but workers remain lacking
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Challenger brand discovery platform Product Guru to launch physical concept store
The store, called Pop, will showcase challenger brands from several retail categories, with food and drink the focus for six days in September
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Zoom by Ocado launches first major marketing campaign
The campaign will appear across video on demand channels, out of home, social media and digital display
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Rapid grocer Gorillas launches four own-label food & drink brands
The range will ‘exceed category standards at a fair price’, Gorillas said
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Ubamarket launches Scan, Pay, Go app in London stores for first time
The scan-as-you-go app officially went live with the sites this week in north London’s Islington and East Finchley
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Grocer Gold Awards 2022: technology initiative of the year
Aldi ‘just walks out’ with the technology prize
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McCain launches ‘Farm of the Future’ in South Africa to implement regenerative agriculture
The company will grow 125 ha potatoes per year on two South African locations totalling 465 ha irrigation and 90 ha dryland
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Analysis and Features
Is the UK moving too fast in introducing gene editing tech?
A new bill is designed to make GE innovation easier, but some campaign groups are concerned the government hasn’t considered all the cons
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Live shopping, a Norwegian Ocado and the M&S ‘bullseye’: five key moments from Shoptalk Europe
While TikTok sees the UK live shopping market reaching $7.4bn, M&S unveiled its plans to personalise five billion customer interactions
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Comment and Opinion
Gene-edited foods shouldn’t be enabled in the UK while risks are ignored
Government is twisting science and mangling the concept of ‘natural’ to push through gene-edited foods, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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JBS to spend over £4m on fire-fighting in world’s biggest tropical wetland
The outlay comes two years after an inferno that environmentalists said was caused by JBS’s suppliers
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Co-op and Microsoft team up to create new food redistribution platform
Called Caboodle, it is already being trialled in 100 Co-op stores and is also to be made available to other retailers
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Delivery platform Docaan halts trading, with website down for several days
It comes after its prime convenience store partner LA Foods put an end to its four-month trial with Docaan after finding it “unsuccessful”
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M&S launches sustainability innovation challenge for startups
The retailer is looking for ideas and technologies that can drive sustainability both in the supply chain and in customer-facing operations