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DPD unveils Wayve partnership to launch fleet data collection pilot

DPD has partnered with autonomous urban mobility company Wayve to launch a fleet data collection pilot.  The partnership aims to  explore how innovations in computer vision and machine learning can… The post DPD unveils Wayve partnership to launch fleet data collection pilot appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The Globe – Charged.
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New Spar for Peterhead

Petrol forecourt retailer EG Group has opened its latest Spar convenience store and forecourt at the Buchan Gateway Retail Park, Peterhead in Aberdeenshire. The 3,000 sq ft store has parking, an external ATM and is open 24 hours, 7 days a week. Food-to-go includes sandwiches, hot and cold rolls and pastries, as well as a […]
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YouTube plans week-long live shopping event, following tests of livestream shopping with creators

YouTube announced earlier this year it would begin pilot testing livestream shopping with a handful of select creators. Now, the company is ready for a larger test of its live shopping platform, with plans to host a week-long live shopping event, “YouTube Holiday Stream and Shop,” starting on November 15. The event will allow viewers […]
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Campbell Soup Company Launches Program to Advance School Nutrition

CAMDEN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) today announced the launch of Full Futures, a program to foster a school nutrition environment that ensures all students are well-nourished and ready to thrive at school and in life. Campbell plans to invest $5 million over the next five years and is joined by a number of […]
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Fresh Evidence: How Health Systems Steer Prescriptions to Their Own Specialty Pharmacies

Hospitals and health systems are rapidly expanding their internal specialty pharmacies—and they’re using questionable tactics to boost revenues and profits. A new American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP) survey of health system pharmacies offers fresh insights into how these systems steer prescriptions to their internal specialty pharmacies: For most health systems’ in-house specialty pharmacies, more […]
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Bluestone Lane Growing Inside

  Strategy matters.  How are you going to drive brand growth?  Who are your target customers and where can you find them? Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®“Bluestone Lane understand branding, strategy, and the cost of customer acquisition. Reducing the cost of new customer acquisition is important for all food service […]
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Restaurants Can Find Solutions Technology Solutions at Dylish

 Do you feel like your company can never keep pace with the fast-evolving world of foodservice technology? Does it seem a national chain or the restaurant next door is always one step ahead of you when it come to technology.  At the intersection of any size restaurants and foodservice technology in a new platform that […]
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Hawaiian Bros is More than a Capital Success

  The food industry is not as difficult as some make it out to be.  Grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh food sold when hot food is hot, cold food is cold, and full of flavor continues to drive growth in every sector of food retail today according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, […]
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Inclusive Melting Pot Menus Drive Trial and Adoption

  Change is the price of survival within the foodservice sector today. Regular readers of this blog know that customization and personalization are both hallmarks of the fast-growing grocerant niche filled with Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food. According to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® hand-held-food for immediate consumption drive […]
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Asda opens first upmarket Extra Special convenience store format

Asda has opened a premium Extra Special convenience store on a forecourt belonging to its new sister company EG Group, allowing motorists to shop the supermarket’s deluxe product range in a convenient roadside location. The store, located on EG Group’s Oxford Road forecourt in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, stocks 2,500 products, including a large selection of Asda’s […]
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What to Expect at This Year’s Asembia Specialty Pharmacy Summit (Guest Post)

Today’s guest post comes from Jayne Hornung, Chief Clinical Officer at MMIT. Jayne discusses changes in the life science and specialty pharmacy industries since the COVID-19 pandemic began. She highlights three key trends that pharma companies, plan sponsors, and others will consider as we head to the upcoming Asembia Specialty Pharmacy Summit (October 26 to 29 […]
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Cumberland Farms Food Focus is ‘Farmhouse Fresh To Go’

  Cumberland Farms like so many other convenience stores continue to expand its grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh food options.  That evolution is occurring at the intersection of fresh food and technology and will prove to be a driver of incremental success according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. […]
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WBA makes $5.2 billion investment in VillageMD

DEERFIELD, Ill. —  Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has agreed to make an additional investment in VillageMD to advance its strategic position in the delivery of value-based primary care, a $1 trillion, fast-growing segment of the health care system. The companies said on Thursday that the $5.2 billion investment will accelerate the opening of at least […]
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Independent Restaurants Regain Sales Momentum with ChowNow

  Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® continues to get deluged with complaints from independent restauranters that they can’t keep up with technology and the competitive advantages that chains have over them when it comes to technology. ChowNow, the Order Better Network enables regional restaurant operators and or independent restaurants to […]
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White Bagging Update: PBMs’ Specialty Pharmacies Keep Gaining on Buy-and-Bill Oncology Channels

Payers have long sought to disrupt the buy-and-bill channel. Coming out of the pandemic (maybe?), specialty pharmacies—via white, brown, and clear bagging—continue to displace buy-and-bill distribution channels for provider-administered oncology drugs. Check out the latest 2021 data below. The battle for the specialty patient pits hospitals against insurers—and their respective specialty pharmacies. As you will […]
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Doubling electricity prices will mean job losses as well as price increases, say retailers

Rising energy prices are already forcing convenience store operators to consider laying off staff and putting up prices, say retailers. In many cases, retailers are facing a doubling of monthly electricity bills. Sophie Towers, who runs Kibble One Stop in Burnley, Lancashire, says that her electricity contract, which must be renewed next week, looks set […]
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Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken Partnership Success

  Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® spent time this summer in Idaho while on vacation eating, drinking, golfing, and simply having one of the best times traveling in years with family.  He personally believes that Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken’snew partnership with Idahoan Mashed Potatoes is a partnership that will garner […]
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RIAs 2021 winner: Post Office of the Year – Independent

Once a failing Sainsbury’s outlet, Welcome Brockenhurst, Hampshire has been transformed into a successful convenience store and post office. The retailer incorporated a post office into the shop in order to make life easier for the local community, as there was no bank or post office for four miles. The post box was placed towards […]
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RIAs 2021 winner: Trailblazer of the Year

Ajay Singh, Premier Morley Convenience Store, Leeds, West Yorkshire, grew up with the business, which has been in his family for 35 years. In his time running the shop with his brother, he has blurred the line between retail and hospitality to give his shoppers the ultimate shopping experience. The store includes a dessert and […]
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Kroger, GIANT introduce half-hour delivery

NEW YORK — Supermarket operators Kroger Co. and the GIANT Co. independently unveiled plans last month to offer new delivery services in partnership with online grocery platform Instacart. Kroger and Instacart unveiled Kroger Delivery Now, offering 30-minute delivery enabled by what the partners call a first-of-its-kind convenience store. GIANT teamed with San Francisco-based Instacart in […]
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RIAs 2021 winner: Most Improved Store

Morley Convenience Store, Premier, Leeds, West Yorkshire, underwent a £150,000 refit in October 2019 to create a “wow” customer experience, mixing convenience with hospitality to create distinct, uniquely branded areas within the store. In recent months, the owners spent a further £85,000 and their investments certainly appear to be paying dividends, with sales growing by […]
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Do you Work at a School? McDonald’s is Giving You Free Breakfast

  Success does leave clues and McDonald’s understands that education and good schools are the undercurrent for future success for all of us and for McDonald’s.  So, if you work either inside and outside the classroom at a school. This week, McDonald’s is making school day mornings a little brighter for educators and staff’s by […]
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Dunkin’s New Halloween Costumes are a Hit

Dunkin Donuts will be top of mind with customers from coast to coast this year on the streets, at the office, at schools, and at home Halloween gathering according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Once again, Dunkin’ has partnered with Spirit Halloween this month with a sweet lineup of […]
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Daily QuickWit (10/19) – Top Retail News of the Day

Albertsons posts Q2 earnings beat. ID sales +1.5% (2 year stacked: 15.3%); digital sales +5% (2 year stacked: +248%). They announced a strong quarterly dividend of 20% and raised FY2021 outlook.  Gross profit margin decreased 28.6% (fuel, inflation, supply chain costs). Albertsons spoke to their transformation strategy and, specifically, called out modernizing their technical infrastructure […]
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