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Aston Manor expands Knights range

Aston Manor is expanding its high-growth Knights range with the launch of Knights Premium Pear, 8.4% ABV, the only flavoured cider in the strong cider segment. Launching in Parfetts late August and Bestway, Lionscroft, Soho and Dhamecha in September, Knights Premium Pear retains the distinctive… This story continues at Aston Manor expands Knights range Or […]
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Echo Falls unveils Fruit Fusion Sour Apple ahead of Halloween

Echo Falls is launching Echo Falls Fruit Fusion Sour Apple (9% ABV) – the latest addition to a pipeline designed to bring new shoppers, flavours and incremental growth into the category. Sour Apple will make its debut across wholesale as a first-to-market exclusive in September,… This story continues at Echo Falls unveils Fruit Fusion Sour […]
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Biona announces new additions to its bakery range

Organic food supplier Biona is launching of a number of new bakery products including a new range of organic sliced bread as well as organic super seed toasties which are available from September onwards. The new sliced bread range consists of a bakehouse white sliced… This story continues at Biona announces new additions to its […]
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Clarity Act Impasse Leaves Regulators Setting Crypto Policy

With crypto legislation stalled, U.S. regulators are moving in to set policies of their own. But as Reuters reported Tuesday (Aug. 18), this has led to concerns in the digital asset industry that these rules could be revoked by future administrations. While cryptocurrency companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying for legislation that will provide […]
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Soft drinks sales soar while post-World Cup beer and cider sales hold steady

Total Till sales at UK major supermarkets increased (+3.1%) in the four weeks ending 8 August 2026, according to the latest data released by NielsenIQ (NIQ). This was a modest slowdown from the +4.4% recorded in the previous four weeks, following the end of the FIFA World… This story continues at Soft drinks sales soar while post-World […]
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Monzo Chair Departs Following Last Year’s Shareholder Backlash

Monzo’s chairman is reportedly departing the British neobank months after shareholders lobbied for his removal. Gary Hoffman, who joined Monzo in 2019, will leave his post next month, the Financial Times reported Monday (Aug. 17). The report points out that Hoffman’s departure comes months after investors last year called for his ouster after the board […]
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Malachyte Turns Spotify’s Skip Signal Into a Merchant’s Agentic Edge

Watch more: Digital Shift With Malachyte’s Sidd Motwani Spotify solved a problem that most digital merchants still haven’t: how to understand who shows up to shop but prefers to do that without registering or checking in. For Spotify, an anonymous listener arrives with no profile, no playlist history and no declared preference. Spotify must decide […]
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The Grocery Store Isn’t the Destination Anymore: The Consumer Is

  Mapping the New Retail Foodservice Melting Pot, For decades, the grocery store was the center of the American food universe according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru®  at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Consumers went to the supermarket to buy ingredients. They went home to cook them. Restaurants were where they went when they wanted […]
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Wonder and Serve Robotics bring robot delivery to Grubhub marketplace in Chicago, Los Angeles, Alexandria

Wonder is partnering with Serve Robotics to bring autonomous delivery to customers in Chicago, Los Angeles and Alexandria on the Grubhub marketplace. The launch expands robot delivery across more than 100 participating merchants in Chicago and nearly 200 in Los Angeles, while also bringing the technology to Wonder’s Potomac Yard location in Alexandria. “A year […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

X Money Wants to Make the Feed a Financial Front Door

Digital wallets have made the phone a familiar place to pay. X Money is testing whether a social platform can claim a place in that payment routine. Consumers already have wallets on their phones, stored credentials at merchants and payment apps that reduce the work required to complete a transaction. But success is no layup: […]
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Stripe’s $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Turns AI Spend Into a New Treasury Lever

The next corporate spender may not carry a company card, submit an expense report or even be a person. It may be software. Technology markets can create value at abstraction layers. Stripe could be making that growth bet across payments. The privately held FinTech company reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire artificial intelligence gateway startup […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Wispr Flow Raises $280 Million and Debuts Voice AI Model

Voice artificial intelligence (AI) startup Wispr Flow is now a $2 billion company after raising $280 million. The company’s Series B round, announced Monday (Aug. 17), comes as Wispr Flow is debuting its latest speech model to address changing needs around voice-to-text technology. “For most of the last decade, talking to a computer meant asking […]
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  1. CPG: Food

Coldcard Breach Losses Now Exceed $115 Million

Losses from a recent security incident involving Coldcard hardware wallets have now surpassed $115 million. That’s according to Galaxy Research, which posted those calculations on X Sunday (Aug. 16), saying they were based on its data through Aug. 13. The company added it has spoken with more than 200 victims “to support them and gather intelligence on the attackers.” […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Uber Teams With Zipline to Expand Drone Delivery Service

Uber hopes to expand its U.S. delivery business by teaming with drone company Zipline. Starting later this year, Uber Eats customers in the U.S. will get the option of having orders delivered “in minutes” through Zipline’s autonomous drone delivery, Uber said in a Monday (Aug. 17) news release. Uber is also investing in Zipline as […]
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  1. CPG: Beverage

CCEP, Co-op and Special Olympics GB bring ‘Meals That Matter’ back to Co-op stores

‘Meals That Matter’, the nationwide campaign that turns the everyday meal deal into a simple way for shoppers to support inclusive sport, is returning to Co-op stores. Backed by Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Co-op and Special Olympics Great Britain (GB), the campaign is running until… This story continues at CCEP, Co-op and Special Olympics GB […]
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Albertsons AI Assistants Drive Immediate 26% Basket Growth Among Early Adopters

Grocery retailer Albertsons Companies found that the customers who begin using its artificial intelligence-powered online shopping experience make larger purchases almost immediately, Jill Pavlovich, senior vice president of digital shopping experiences at Albertsons, told The Wall Street Journal in a report published Monday (Aug. 17). Albertsons has seen the average order value of these customers […]
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  1. CPG & FMCG

The Bifurcation Of The US Economy

The question is, which portrayal of the US economy do you want to believe? Which one are you experiencing?  Are your customers experiencing? There were several stories over the weekend that illustrated the bifurcation of the US economy. The Associated Press reported that “after splurging on the World Cup and Amazon Prime Day sales, Americans […]
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Banks Built for Paychecks Meet the Cash Flow Generation

For much of the past century, banking products evolved around the regular paycheck. But findings in the August 2026 edition of The Millennial Playbook, a report by PYMNTS Intelligence, reveal that as work becomes more fragmented, simply holding the checking account may become less valuable than helping customers manage when money arrives, how long it […]
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  1. Department: Beverage

The AI Scarlet Letter

This cartoon was partly inspired by the whiplash approach to AI writing at LinkedIn. A few years ago, they indiscriminately pushed AI tools, offering to draft a full post after typing just 30 words. Surprise, surprise, this resulted in a lot of AI slop on the platform. A recent study from Pangram Labs claims that […]
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Pitching your product to a retail buyer can be one of the most exciting—and nerve-racking—moments for any product manufacturer. The stakes are high, competition is fierce, and buyers are constantly evaluating which brands deserve a spot on their shelves. Landing a retail deal can mean massive brand exposure, increased credibility, and a major jump in […]
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July E-Grocery Sales Up 21.5 Percent YOY

The July Brick Meets Click Grocery Shopping Survey is out, showing that total e-grocery sales were up 21.5 percent, primarily driven by continued growth – almost 15 percent – in average order frequency. A critical note from the report:   “Where there is growth in overall grocery spending, it comes from online sales. In contrast […]
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Kroger acquiring Giant Eagle in $1.65B deal

Kroger Co. is acquiring Giant Eagle, a family-owned food and pharmacy retailer, for a purchase price of $1.65 billion. Giant Eagle has approximately $9 billion in annual sales and 197 supermarkets and 11 standalone pharmacies across northern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana, according to a press release. The purchase is comprised of […]
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