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Schnucks to bring AI in-store ‘Smart Salad Bars’ to 22 Locations

- Retail
Picadeli, a leading food tech company dedicated to driving traffic into retail and grocery through its ‘smart salad bar’ experience, today announced its continued expansion in the U.S. through the launch of its partnership with Schnuck Markets, Inc., a third and fourth generation, family-owned grocery retailer committed to nourishing people’s lives.

UNFI upgrades supply chain operations with AI, automation

- Retail
United Natural Foods, Inc. today announced further actions to significantly improve its supply chain capabilities and overall customer experience as part of its four-part transformation agenda to provide increasing value to its customers and suppliers, effectiveness and efficiency in its operations, and enhanced value for its shareholders.

AI-powered fresh food vending machines to debut in Toronto

- General News
Daily Blends, an AI tech company disrupting the automated foodservice industry with smart vending machines offering fresh, healthy food options, today announced its USD $2 million in investment co-led by San Francisco-based Hustle Fund and New York-based 2048 Ventures.

Personal attention, AI style

- Analysis
Since AI is all the rage now, the author of a recent column asked how AI could be used in customer service.

AI to fight food waste

- Analysis
Food waste is one hot topic that’s not going away anytime soon. One estimate says that one third of the food brought to market worldwide is wasted—amounting to a loss of $1 trillion.

Kroger partners with Google Cloud and Deloitte to improve productivity

- Retail
Google Cloud and Deloitte today announced a strategic collaboration with Kroger to help the grocery chain use cloud technologies to increase associate productivity across its nearly 2,800 stores nationwide.

Wakefern Food Corp. opens AI store pilot

- Retail
Wakefern's The Pantry is a frictionless store concept featuring Trigo’s technology that allows shoppers to skip the checkout line. The company is testing the concept at its Edison, N.J.-based campus.

Google Cloud offers new AI tools for retailers

- Retail
Ahead of NRF 2023, the retail industry's largest event, Google Cloud today introduced four new and updated AI technologies to help retailers transform their in-store shelf checking processes and enhance their ecommerce sites with more fluid and natural online shopping experiences for customers.

Revol Greens adds autonomous growing to U.S. greenhouses

- General News
Revol Greens, the largest sustainable greenhouse lettuce grower in North America, has chosen Blue Radix, an independent Dutch autonomous growing specialist, to provide technology services to all of Revol's US-based greenhouses.

Sunkist machine uses AI to sort citrus

- General News
Sunkist has brought online a new machine that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to sort 12 pieces of citrus fruit per second per lane.