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  1. Trends & External Forces

Your Views:  No Real Future

MNB reader Rich Heiland had a thought about out continuing conversation about CVS’s shortcomings: I consider drug stores a commodity. None of them do anything to distinguish themselves from one another in any significant way. I live in a downtown area. There is a Rite-Aid a block or so away. I go there. If there […]
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10 Types Of Food Retail Business: Which Might Suit You Best?

Are you hungry to carve out a niche in the bustling food industry but not quite sure where to dig in? Get ready for some food for thought! We’re about to explore ten tantalizing types of food retail businesses that might just align with your entrepreneurial appetite and spice up your life.  From the sweet […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Your Views:  Even A Blind Man Knows

Got the following email regarding my conversation with ReposiTrak’s Randy Fields and Dr. Benjamin Miller, executive vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs of The Acheson Group (TAG): Thank you for presenting the discussion about the FDA’s new traceability requirements.  People in our industry are simply not aware of the impending, major disruption in logistics […]
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  1. Channel & Retailers

Kroger Out Of Ghost Kitchen Deal

Kitchen United, which has been operating 18 ghost kitchens – including eight inside Kroger stores – is closing or selling all those physical locations, with plans to  focus on the licensing of its proprietary software, which has been used to operate those physical businesses. All of the Kroger locations already have been closed. KC’s View: […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Starship Technologies launches robotic food delivery service at Wichita State University

Wichita State Dining has announced the roll-out of robotic food delivery on campus, thanks to a partnership with Starship Technologies. The latter’s fleet of autonomous, on-demand robots are now available to deliver food from the following campus restaurants: RSC Starbucks Panda Express Freddy’s Frozen Custard Tu Taco Market at Groundhouse Cargill Cafe Black & Gold […]
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  1. Channel & Retailers

MrBeast Says ‘Ghost Kitchen’ Partner Is Hurting His Brand With ‘Terrible Quality’ Burgers

YouTube star MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is suing his business partner Virtual Dining Concepts over the poor quality of the burgers bearing his name. The collaboration involved building an online food service to deliver MrBeast-branded foods, but customers have complained about issues such as raw meat, missing parts of their orders, and […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Is Mom Cooking your Dinner or is the Neighbor

  Last week Joanna Fantozzi a Senior Editor for Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality posed a great question; Do you know where your food is being cooked? According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® most Americans simply don’t care who cooks dinner as long as it is not them.  Here […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Retail Traffic Trends #131: The Next Big Hurdle

The accessibility of AI tools like ChatGPT has empowered individuals worldwide, revealing the remarkable capabilities of these tools. From answering questions and crafting poetry to generating texts in the styles of renowned authors and facilitating translation, the possibilities seem endless.  This week we look at how new technologies have the potential to have unique use-cases […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

3D Cloud by Marxent offers retailers early access programme for 3D Cloud Room Scanner solution

3D Cloud by Marxent, a specialist in 3D kitchen design and furniture planning, has announced an early access programme for its 3D Cloud Room Scanner offering. Retailers can now sign up to be among the first to deploy the capabilities of the company’s LiDAR room scan to design solution for capturing room measurements that can […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Free Soul, HUX Health, Misfits Health tap bodo rapid, sustainable online delivery solution

UK supplement brands Free Soul, HUX Health and Misfits Health have partnered with one-hour and same-day delivery startup bodo. They are using the London-based firm’s solution in three main ways: Acquiring new customers with faster and more convenient delivery options, and turning them into loyal subscribers. Using bodo’s live map order tracking and branded WhatsApp/email […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Meals Matter a Grocerant Niche Interview You Do Not Want to Miss

  Today’s consumers are as time starved as ever and when you couple that with a growing lack of cooking from scratch skill-set grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh food continues to garner customers attention and drive food channel migration according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  Consumers continue seeking […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Uber Eats ghosts thousands of virtual kitchens

Uber Eats is removing thousands of ghost kitchens with duplicate menus from its app in an effort to make the experience more pleasurable for its users. The company has also unveiled new standards for ghost kitchen operators to follow. “Communicating — and beginning to enforce — these new quality standards for Virtual Restaurants on Uber […]
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  1. Channel & Retailers

Ghost Kitchen Company Pulls Out Of Portland, Oregon

Willamette Week reports that “the Miami ghost kitchen company that scattered its trucks across Portland shortly before the pandemic and received over $1 billion from SoftBank and other overseas investors appears to have called it quits in Portland. “Miami-based Reef Technology last week closed most, if not all, of its remaining ghost kitchens across the […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Baseball is Back Trading Cards are ‘IN” LankyBox Kitchen’s Trading Cards are Fun

  What is the best food marketing job in the foodservice sector?  It has to be a food marketing director at a virtual kitchen.  According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru®at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® who stated, “virtual restaurants, virtual brands start with a blank sheet and are not restricted to a set of self-imposed […]
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  1. Channel & Retailers

Chipotle Launches New Concept From A Ghost Kitchen

Food & Wine reports that Chipotle is launching a new bowl-centric foodservice concept:  “Opening in March in Santa Monica, Farmesa will feature the same customizable options Chipotle is loved for. Guests will have the option of building a bowl, which includes a protein, green or grain, two sides, a choice of five sauces, and toppings. […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Drone delivery and checkout-free stores: RTIH’s biggest retail technology articles on LinkedIn

We’re big fans of LinkedIn and are busy building an amazing community of retail tech enthusiasts on the social media platform. These are the articles that are currently on their radars, including Walmart, DroneUp, MAPCO, Grabango, Currys, Co-op, and Just Eat. Walmart drone delivery service hits Arizona, Texas and Florida markets with DroneUp Walmart’s drone […]
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  1. Channel & Retailers

Worth Reading:  Ghost Kitchens, Phantom Business

Willamette Week has a long piece about the growth – and now, the apparent retreat – of the ghost kitchen business ion Portland, Oregon. Here’s how WW frames the story: “A few years ago, restaurants started sprouting up in Portland like toadstools, with names like Mr. Beast Burger, Sticky Wings and Man vs. Fries. They […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Startup Stories interview: Jack Green and Brandon Neman, founders of bodo

RTIH gets the lowdown on bodo, which was founded by former CloudKitchens and Deliveroo executives and offers e-commerce brands a plug-in that facilitates one hour and same-day delivery directly from their website or store. RTIH: Tell us about yourselves and bodo JG and BN: bodo is a logistics platform enabling brands to our customers eco-friendly […]
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  1. Department & Category

Two Ohio Kroger Stores Add Saladworks To Their Kitchen United Food Halls

Two Kroger stores in the Columbus, Ohio, market are adding menu items from Saladworks to the new Kitchen United Mix Food Hall locations situated in those stores … “Kitchen United’s Mix Food Hall provides customers with a seamless takeout experience, offering a variety of restaurant brands and menu options including Saladworks,” the announcement says.  Delivery […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Blondery – a Cloud Kitchen That Went from Home Baking to a DTC Empire in a Week

Auzerais went from baking for friends to building a DTC bakery empire in a week. Yes, you read that right. This exponential growth has been documented by multiple publications. Currently, Blondery ships over 75,000 shipments per week nationwide.  So how did this huge success happen, and how does Auzerais handle it all? We sat with […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Virtual Chicken Concept Takes Flight

There have been several stories out there about how Hooters is teaming up with NASCAR driver Chase Elliott on a new virtual chicken format that will deliver a variety of poultry dishes via Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats. The items will be delivered from some 196 Hooters locations around the country, but will not be […]
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Retailers Gain Control of Their Sustainability Goals as the ESG Storm Clouds Start to Gather Over Operations

Using event-driven architecture (EDA), retailers must link essential data at speed and scale throughout their ecosystems near and far to come to grips with now essential environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting in three key areas. 1. Dead Heading — Optimizing Transportation/Emissions on Every Journey When it comes to transportation within the retail sector, any […]
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Why Amazon’s Just Walk Out initiative failed – and why it’s not the end of checkout free technology

It recently emerged that Amazon’s Just Walk Out offering is being dropped from Amazon Fresh stores. However, it’s not checkout-free tech that’s failing, it’s the fact that Amazon’s checkout free solution doesn’t work, especially in grocery retailers, argues Will Glaser, Founder and CEO at Grabango. In the dynamic grocery retail landscape, a transformative wave is […]
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