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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  Reporting In From NGA 2024

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Yesterday’s Technology Summit (perhaps a grandiose word to describe what I think were a collection of illuminating, provocative, and sometimes irreverent conversations) at the National Grocers Association (NGA) show in Las Vegas featured the initial reporting of results from a new Acosta Group consumer survey focusing on the retail technologies they like and don’t like.  There were some interesting surprises, especially around the subject of self-checkout.

If you’d like to download the entire survey, click here.

Full disclosure:  Acosta Group is an MNB Charter Sponsor.

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