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Technology delivery specialist Ian McClure bids farewell to Co-op and heads to Marks and Spencer

Ian McClure has announced his departure from Co-op, where he spent seven years, most recently serving as Principal Technology Delivery Manager – SAP Operations. His next port of call is M&S. In a LinkedIn post, he said: “After an amazing chapter with an incredible team, it’s time for me to say goodbye to the Co-op […]
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Search on for new leader as lululemon Chief AI and Technology Officer Ranju Das leaves retailer

Ranju Das has left lululemon, where he served as Chief AI and Technology Officer. He joined the retailer in September of last year, with a focus on leveraging AI and technology to redefine the retail landscape, enhancing guest experiences and internal operations. His LinkedIn bio noted: “My role involves creating responsible AI strategies that not […]
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Goldman Sachs Says AI Spending Not Boosting Corporate Earnings

A jump in corporate artificial intelligence spending has not translated into a corresponding boost in earnings. That’s according to a report Sunday (Aug. 16) by Seeking Alpha, citing an analysis from Goldman Sachs which found that just 2% of S&P 500 companies quantified the effects of AI in second-quarter earnings reports. Of those, 11% cited […]
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Anthropic CEO Says He’s Not an AI Pessimist

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is disputing arguments he’s overly pessimistic about artificial intelligence’s impact. As TechCrunch reported Sunday (Aug. 16), Amodei made these claims in response to comments from investor Gavin Baker, who contended in a post on X and on the “All In” podcast that the executive’s warnings about AI-related risks have helped drive […]
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OCC Approves Conditional Bank Charter for Trump Family Crypto Company

American regulators have granted a banking license to a President Donald Trump-affiliated cryptocurrency company. The Office for the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued its preliminary conditional approval Friday (Aug. 14) for a national banking charter requested by World Liberty Financial (WLF), a company led in part by the president’s older sons. WLF plans include […]
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Smoothie King’s Flatbread Lesson: Why Hand-Held Food Is the Next Growth Platform

  Smoothie King may have started with smoothies, but its latest sales performance demonstrates something much bigger about the American foodservice consumer: beverages are food, flatbreads are food, and hand-held foods are increasingly becoming the format for how America eats. The Dallas-based chain reported 9% same-store sales growth in July, with its new Chicken Flatbreads […]
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Italy’s Cheese Bank Finds Climate Risk Has a Rind

On Wall Street, “cheese” is slang for money. In Italy, they decided the metaphor needed collateral. Deep inside climate-controlled warehouses in Emilia-Romagna, hundreds of thousands of wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano sit on shelves while securing loans from Credito Emiliano, Fortune reported Monday (Aug. 10). It’s banking with notes of hazelnut, salt and a surprisingly complicated risk […]
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The Next Restaurant Battle Is Bigger Than Food: McDonald’s, Red Bull and the Fight for Consumer Occasions

  McDonald’s is getting into the energy-drink business with Red Bull, but from my perspective as the Grocerant Guru®, the bigger story is not caffeine. The bigger story is consumer evolution. Consumers are no longer willing to define a restaurant visit by the traditional three meals a day, a limited beverage menu and a single […]
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Banks Find the Big Money in FinCEN’s $4.9 Billion Smuggling Data

Financial institutions have spent years trying to see more suspicious activity. New data from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) suggests the more valuable question may be whether they can see enough of the activity together. FinCEN said in a Thursday (Aug. 13) press release that financial institutions flagged nearly $5 billion in activity potentially […]
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Best 5 AI Ad Tools for Creative Analysis: Options To Try In 2026 (With Pricing)

Share Post Share Email The post Best 5 AI Ad Tools for Creative Analysis: Options To Try In 2026 (With Pricing) appeared first on The CMO Survey. Post Views: 26
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  1. Channel: Mass

The Cloud Risk CFOs Aren’t Measuring: What Happens When a Vendor Disappears?

There’s a new nightmare scenario in enterprise cloud computing, and it’s not an AI-driven cyberattack. It’s a vendor simply going out of business and disappearing. That’s what happened to a PBS affiliate in St. Louis, which lost 70 years of archival material, or around 50 terabytes, after a contracted PBS storage provider, Open Source Storage, […]
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  1. Department: Food

Chocolate bar collaboration for Haribo and Ritter Sport

Ritter Sport and Haribo have launched their first-ever UK collaboration, in the form of Ritter Sport x Haribo Balla Bites – a limited edition 100g chocolate block. The launch will be supported by what Ritter Sport says is its largest-ever retail activity programme in the… This story continues at Chocolate bar collaboration for Haribo and […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Asda launches wholesale supply for convenience stores

Asda is following Tesco and the Co-op into supplying products to independent convenience stores. Dubbed Asda Convenience, the new wholesale supply model will initially roll out across three stores in Scotland in partnership with independent operator One-O-One. The trial will test how retailers can run… This story continues at Asda launches wholesale supply for convenience […]
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Chicken Tenders Snack Box new from Rollover

Rollover is expanding its hot food-to-go range with the launch of a Chicken Tenders Snack Box. Featuring crispy chicken breast pieces served with a sweet and spicy hot honey dip, the new addition is designed to help retailers meet the growing demand for convenient, protein-rich… This story continues at Chicken Tenders Snack Box new from […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

The Plastic-Free Packaging Shift Is Bigger Than You Think

Most people associate water-soluble films with laundry pods. You know the ones — toss a small capsule into the wash, and the casing dissolves in the machine. But that familiar product is just one small slice of a market quietly reshaping how the world thinks about packaging waste. Post Views: 23
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Nearly 4 in 10 CFOs See Gen AI Paying Off Within Two Years

CFOs have stopped treating generative artificial intelligence returns as one date circled on the calendar. By December, 39.1% expected very positive returns within one to two years, even as 26.1% expected the payoff to take six years or longer. That split is the clearest sign that finance leaders are getting more practical about the technology. […]
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  1. Department: Food

OpenAI’s Revenue Run Rate Tops $40 Billion as IPO Nears

OpenAI is now on pace to bring in annualized revenue of more than $40 billion, roughly double its run rate from the end of 2025. The jump gives the ChatGPT maker fresh momentum as it prepares to go public. For the banking, payments and fintech firms watching how AI vendors turn usage into money, the […]
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Merchants Find Revenue Hiding Behind the Decline Button

In a fragmented payments environment, how intelligently infrastructure decides what should happen to every transaction is becoming a key definition of payments performance and success. The August edition of PYMNTS Intelligence’s Optimizing Payments Tracker® Series, a collaboration with PayPal Open, found that authorization, routing, cost management and fraud prevention are converging into the same real-time […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

SoFi Teaches Its AI Coach to Read the Financial Room

Watch more: Digital Shift With SoFi’s Brian Walsh Digital transformation in financial services has traditionally hung its hat on the promise of democratization and accessibility. Software could reach consumers who lacked enough assets to attract a traditional adviser, delivering basic education and automated portfolio management at a fraction of the cost. Conversational artificial intelligence is […]
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  1. CPG & FMCG

Bahama Buck’s Takes the Taste of Paradise Beyond Its Four Walls: Why SnoBlast Could Be a Big Growth Step After 35 Years

  After 35 years in business, the biggest challenge for any restaurant or foodservice brand is not simply staying relevant—it is finding new ways to make the brand relevant more often, in more places and for more occasions. That is why Bahama Buck’s launch of SnoBlast deserves more attention than a typical new-product announcement according […]
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  1. CPG: Food

Amazon Wants Alexa to Look Inside the Fridge and Fill the Cart

Amazon’s latest Alexa demonstration looked almost trivial: photograph a refrigerator, ask what groceries are missing, and let artificial intelligence assemble the shopping list. But for Walmart, it represents a considerably bigger strategic problem. Amazon is trying to move competition in grocery away from the place where Walmart is strongest such as stores, inventory and local […]
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  1. Department: Nonfood

Microsoft Unifies Consumer and Enterprise Copilot in Push for Single Platform

Microsoft has begun combining its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single product, starting a gradual transition that will culminate in a super app the company has been building to compete more directly with ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. The company started rolling out the unified experience this week to a small group of Windows […]
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Chime Weighs Adding Stablecoin Wallet to Consumer Banking App

Chime Financial is considering adding stablecoins as a feature in its consumer banking app, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. 13), citing unnamed sources. The FinTech asked blockchain technology companies to submit proposals to provide stablecoin wallet services that would enable Chime customers to send and receive the digital assets without needing a separate account or another […]
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  1. CPG: Food

Citi Plans to Acquire Kard to Deliver More Personalized Rewards

Citi’s U.S. Consumer Cards business plans to expand its customer engagement and commerce media capabilities by acquiring Kard Financial, a commerce media and rewards platform for banks and FinTechs, Citi said in a Thursday (Aug. 13) press release. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, and the companies will continue to operate as independent organizations until […]
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  1. Department: Consumer Durables

AI Just Got Its First 24/7 TV Channel

Fairground AI Creator TV is a channel that runs entirely artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video 24 hours a day, seven days a week, interrupted only by AI-generated commercials. That makes it the first free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel built exclusively from AI content, Fairground Entertainment said in a July 30 announcement. The channel launched this […]
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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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