All Technology articles – Page 73
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Analysis & FeaturesHow Betty’s Farm is pioneering automated vending machine shopping
The fully automated shop boasts gleaming white vending machines, touchscreens and chrome railings
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Comment & OpinionFood technology has always been vital in delighting shoppers and developing the market
Oatly’s rise to fame and fortune is one of the greatest feats of entrepreneurship the food industry has ever seen
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Analysis & FeaturesHow quantum computing could answer grocery’s biggest challenges
From delivery routes to world hunger, can cutting-edge quantum technology help solve the biggest challenges in food and drink?
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Analysis & FeaturesHow futuristic food tech is transforming how we eat
Food technology is no longer the preserve of lab-bound boffins. These days innovators are taking products to market themselves – and cashing in
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NewsCultured meat startup Ivy Farm urges FSA to be ‘nimble’ on regulation
The business announced a £16m fundraising round last weekend
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NewsOcado launches allergy flagging functionality to website
The feature is powered by Foodmaestro, a Toronto-based company that has provided similar functionality to the Asda and Sainsbury’s
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NewsSmash: Healthy food discount app for young people launches
Participating brands include Graze, Whitworths, Ugly Drinks, This, Meatless Farm and Deliciously Ella
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NewsAmazon opens fourth checkout-free Fresh store, in Canary Wharf
Amazon has opened new Fresh stores in the capital at a rate of one every 19 days
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Comment & OpinionWhy apps need to become core to the grocery shopping experience
For too long apps have been treated as just an additional transactional platform, says Harry Walker, industry head of grocery retail at Google
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NewsAmazon to create 10,000 new permanent UK jobs this year
It will open four new CFCs across the country throughout this year
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Promotional FeaturesDigital ID can revolutionise grocery shopping post-pandemic
The pandemic saw radical shifts in omnichannel grocery. As we ease out of lockdown digital ID systems will be key to further innovation.
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NewsTesco-backed checkout-free tech firm Trigo partners with Rewe on Cologne store
Germany’s second-largest food retail chain has launched the checkout-free option at a store in Cologne
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NewsDeliveroo offers free keyring safety alarms to riders
The keyring safety alarms “let off a loud, high-pitched noise and emit a bright flashing light” when activated
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NewsTesco CTO Guus Dekkers joins executive committee
The promotion ‘reiterates the growing importance we assign to technology & digitalisation’ said group CEO Ken Murphy in an email to Tesco staff
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NewsRapid grocer Fancy reveals UK expansion plan following Gopuff acquisition
Fancy offers products across several categories, promising delivery within 30 minutes
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NewsAsda trialling secure boxes for unattended online deliveries
Asda is launching the trial with a small number of customers to take deliveries when they are not at home
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NewsCo-op and Unilever partner on Europe’s first smart ice cream vending machine
A combination of cameras and sensors within the Wall’s branded freezer identify which products have been removed by the customer
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NewsOcado offering former customers free delivery slots
Ocado is offering the free slots in the face of slowing growth as lockdown eases
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NewsDeliveroo to trial facial recognition technology on riders
Riders have interpreted the move as the platform clamping down on the selling and renting of accounts
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NewsLidl app now tells shoppers quietest times to visit stores
Upon opening the Lidl Plus app, users are now shown a banner saying ‘Best time to shop’