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The Year Ahead: AI in the retail realm

- Produce Blueprints
“Retailers are gaining experience with AI, but they still don’t have a good handle on it,” says Phil Lempert, the Los Angeles, CA-based Supermarket Guru.

The Year Ahead: AI goes mainstream

- Produce Blueprints
As the produce industry continued to find its equilibrium in 2023, issues like artificial intelligence, climate change, labor, and food safety affected everyone along the supply chain.

Too Good To Go launches AI-powered food management platform

- General News
Too Good To Go, the social impact company behind the world's largest marketplace for surplus food, announces the launch of Too Good To Go Platform.

UNFI to bring AI-powered warehouse automation system in new distribution center

- Retail
United Natural Foods, Inc. announced plans to implement an A.I.-powered robotic automation system in its soon-to-be-completed distribution center (DC), in Manchester, PA.

Diebold Nixdorf to combat retail shrink at checkout with AI

- General News
Diebold Nixdorf, the provider of retail solutions powering transactions and experiences for more than 150 retailers around the world, today began the rollout of its new AI-based checkout solutions, as first seen at the NRF Big Show this month.

Chef Robotics hires software lead

- General News
Chef Robotics, a manufacturer of AI robots for the food industry, has hired Somudro Gupta as head of software

Schnucks tests AI smart carts with Instacart

- Featured
Caper Carts at Schnucks stores automatically identify items as they are added to the cart using computer vision and artificial intelligence

Instacart launches AI-powered food inspiration search tool, Ask Instacart

- Retail
Starting to roll out to Instacart customers today and scaling to all U.S. customers over the coming weeks, Ask Instacart is a reimagined yet still familiar search experience directly embedded in the search bar in the Instacart app, providing customers with product recommendations that are intuitively organized, as well as additional useful information about food preparation, product attributes, dietary considerations, and more.

C&S Wholesale Grocers to build AI-powered distribution model

- Retail
Tata Consultancy Services has been chosen by C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., an industry leader in supply chain solutions and wholesale grocery supply in the United States, to build a new operations platform on Google Cloud to reduce the company's carbon footprint and enhance the customer experience.

Ag AI firm Stout Industrial Technology hires CEO

- General News
Before joining Stout, Brent Shedd served as the CEO for Zing Robotics, developing electric, autonomous vehicles for the aviation industry.