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  1. Technology & Innovation

Rutter’s Restaurant Quality Convenience Store Selection

Understanding what customers want is key to driving top-line growth and bottom-line profits according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  Serving restaurant quality fresh food fast has served Rutter’s well. Rutter’scontinues to listen to consumers, and has heard the cries for fresher faster, so they have elected to add more […]
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  1. Department: Food

Kwik Trip Growth with a Focus on Hot Spot Food

  Consumers want grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food with full flavor, fresh, and fast according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  Johnson stated, “In every sector of retail foodservice it is grocerant Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat that consumers are migrating too according to Nielsenand the team at Foodservice […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Porter’s 5 forces : analyse the competition and develop your competitive advantages

Porter’s 5 forces model is a tool that is widely taught in business schools and various training centres. Among other things, this tool makes it possible to analyse the competition in a market. Porter’s forces refer to the following elements The intensity of competition, The bargaining power of customers, The bargaining power of suppliers, The […]
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  1. Associates & Employees

Thursday Eye-Opener:  What’s Lacking In Gen Z Isn’t Ambition

by Kevin Coupe Good piece in Fast Company that argues that it is an over-generalization to say that Gen Z is made up largely of people who are “quiet quitting” or doing the bare minimum at work, that they are devoid of a work ethic or any sort of ambition. Sure, some of them are […]
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  1. Channel: Restaurants

At KFC Gamers are Welcome

  Are you a Gen Z or Millennial Gamer? If you are KFC is looking for you, and has a gift.  That gift is a early beta access to play Diablo IV.  Now According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® one again the one-time leader within the grocerant niche is […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

The Price of Eggs Isn’t the Only Thing Grocers Are Managing These Days

According to FoodIndustry.com, the U.S. food market is worth $1.5 trillion annually, or roughly 4 percent of the domestic gross product. $800 billion of that revenue is from supermarkets and food stores. Compare this to the U.S. apparel market, which is estimated to be worth $318 billion (Statistica). And while the retail industry often focuses […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

From Product Descriptions to SEO: How Retailers are Putting Generative AI to Use

[Editor’s note: This is the third article in our series on AI in retail. Be sure to check out our other stories on consumer attitudes toward AI and store design applications.]  Since OpenAI debuted ChatGPT a little over three months ago, “generative AI” has become a hot topic and no industry has been left untouched […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

BJ’s Wholesale Club to Power Up Shelf-Scanning Robots at All Locations

BJ’s Wholesale Club has entered a partnership with Simbe to roll out the solution provider’s automated business intelligence robot, Tally, to all 237 stores. The retailer plans to utilize the AI-powered solution to provide greater visibility into club conditions and drive deeper business insights. Tally autonomously roams club aisles multiple times per day, leveraging its […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

“What will be left for us humans to do?” OpenAI’s GPT-4 is already here

OpenAI has released its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model GPT-4, which it claims to be much less likely to engage with disallowed content and produce biased or inaccurate responses. The… The post “What will be left for us humans to do?” OpenAI’s GPT-4 is already here appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Why does Restaurant Customer Discontinuity Continue to Linger?

Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru® Steven Johnson predicts that 2023 will be a record year of chain restaurant discontinuity.  Specifically, with more chain restaurant closing stores and fewer total chain restaurants open entering 2023. Today many restaurants, c-stores, grocerants, have been “holding on by a thread” according to Johnson, since the COVID-19 pandemic the prepared meal […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Drive-Thru Technology is Evolving as We Know It: A Quick Dive into the Current State of Drive-Thru Solutions

[[“value”:” Share: The drive-thru plays a crucial role in QSR operations and has only seemed to grow in popularity in recent years. Throughout the pandemic, drive-thru operations drastically increased in demand as consumers desperately needed an escape from the woes and boredom of quarantine. In fact, the QSR drive-thru was one of the few avenues […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Hy-Vee to host Best of Local Brands Summit in May

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Hy-Vee, Inc. announces that it will host its next quarterly Best of Local Brands Summit in May to expand and enhance the product offerings at its more than 285 retail stores in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Since the Best of Local Brands summits began […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Apple rushes out its mixed reality headset – could it all go wrong?

Apple’s success has long been founded on its ability to innovate and produce creative yet novel products. However, there’s been a distinct lack of newness coming out of the tech… The post Apple rushes out its mixed reality headset – could it all go wrong? appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Tough Cookies

The Washington Post reports that for the third year in a row, the Girl Scouts are facing a problem with their annual cookie season. “Blame the coronavirus pandemic for the wildly vacillating supply and demand over the past two years: a surplus of unsold cookies in 2021 and supply chain issues in 2022,” the Post […]
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  1. Department: Food

Scottish Spars link with app to cut food waste

Two Spar stores in Lanarkshire have begun a trial with food waste app Gander. Spar Abronhill and Spar Stonehouse are both trialling the app for a minimum of 12 weeks in an effort to reduce food waste and offer customers the chance to buy a selection of fresh food that needs to be cleared at […]
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  1. Department & Category

Tops Expands Flashfood Program Footprint

Western New York-based Tops Friendly Markets said yesterday that it will expand “its program with Flashfood, a digital marketplace that provides shoppers with access to heavily discounted food nearing its best-by date, to 18 additional Rochester-Area stores. The latest expansion of the Flashfood program brings the total number of Tops stores offering Flashfood to 68 […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Edifying Freshness Hawaiian Bros Expands Marketing Messaging

  What is the best way to say fresh?  Well, I’m not sure but I do know that Hawaiian Bros partnership with Dole Soft Serve is a great way to edify your brand messaging to say fresh.  According to Steven JohnsonGrocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® driving new electricity into your brand requires […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

SAJJ Mediterranean What’s for Dinner Build-Your-Own

Once again, a restaurant chain believes it has it’s pulse on the consumer and is extending a customer focused family meal for a set price.  Is your company looking a customer ahead. Do you understand just how the price, value service equilibrium is evolving? Are you going to pay $59.95 for your family dinner tonight?  […]
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  1. Department: Food

New cookie concept to boost bakery sales

Baked by Rich’s has announced its range of cookies, created in partnership with Nestlé Professional, is now available to convenience retailers in a simple,sales-driving, thaw and serve concept. Designed to allow stores without bakery facilities to offer fresh, coffee-shop quality cookies, the thaw and serve range is delivered frozen. Staff simply need to let the […]
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  1. Operations & Supply Chain

Collaboration is the Secret to Getting a Grip on Inventory Woes

Whipsawed by supply chain volatility and the massive overordering that resulted when retailers placed bigger bets on stock, the retail ecosystem has absorbed some harsh inventory blows over the past two years. Heading into the 2022 holiday season, an estimated $66 billion in unwanted surplus inventory sat on retailers’ shelves. But there’s hope. As retailers […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Green Zebra, Unique Healthy C-Store Format, To Close

Green Zebra, the Portland, Oregon, “healthy convenience store” that began operations a decade ago, announced this morning that it will wind down operations and close all three of its units at the end of the month. “We have been holding on by a thread since the pandemic started and have been in austerity mode since […]
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  1. Department & Category

Food Sales Contraction Are You Prepared

  The fight for share of stomach has evolved into a battle for available food dollars.  Restaurants, grocery stores, convenience stores, and dollar stores are all focused on the shrinking disposal income a family allots for meals.  It is at the intersection of higher prices, the 65 Inch HDTV Syndrome, and food retailers price value […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

ShopRite Grocerant Niche Focus ‘Fresh to Table’

  At the intersection of what’s for dinner and fast food recently two east coast Shoprite’s have debuted a foodservice at retail concept: “Fresh to Table,” with an emphasis on fresh, easy to prepare ingredients, and grab-and-go. Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®reiterated once again on the importance of “focusing on […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Microsoft brings an AI-powered Copilot to its business app suite

Microsoft today introduced what it’s calling the “next generation” of AI product updates across its business apps portfolio. They touch on both Power Platform, Microsoft’s set of low-code tools for building apps and workflows, and Dynamics 365, the company’s suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. In an interview with […]
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  1. Department & Category

The ‘Halo’ of Better-4-You Food Continues to Drive Customer Adoption

  One of the success clues found driving customer adoption within the grocerant niche filled with Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food has been the discovery of food that is deemed ‘better-4-you by consumers according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.  A recent news article pointed out that today more […]
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  1. Associates & Employees

Kroger Plans $770M Investment in Raising Wages, Boosting Benefits for Frontline Workers

Kroger will make a more than $770 million incremental investment in its associates during 2023 in order to raise average hourly rates, improve healthcare options and build new training and development opportunities, among other plans. This initiative builds on the $1.9 billion Kroger has invested in its workers since 2018. The grocer’s investments in its […]
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  1. Channel: Mass
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  3. Shopper & Customer
  4. Technology & Innovation

Tesco infuriates shoppers as it slashes Clubcard points value

Supermarket giant Tesco came under fire following the announcement that it will be reducing the value of Clubcard reward vouchers from June 2023. The reduction will come into force after… The post Tesco infuriates shoppers as it slashes Clubcard points value appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The Globe – Charged.
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aisle 3 exits the CSS business and uses proceeds to support growth in sneaker category

AI powered shopping platform aisle 3 has completed the sale of its Google Comparison Shopping Site (CSS) service to Product Hero. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, other than it being all cash. The sale consolidates market share for CSS service provider Product Hero, which works with the likes of Rituals and Ikea. […]
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  4. Technology & Innovation

Kroger lands deal for self-driving truck deliveries

Get ready because the empty truck cabs in motion are coming. Gatik, which is involved in autonomous middle-mile logistics, has announced a multi-year commercial collaboration to transport customer orders within Kroger’s Dallas distribution network. The operations will launch in a few weeks. Under the collaboration, Gatik’s medium-duty autonomous box trucks will transport fresh, customer-favorite products from […]
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  1. CPG: Food
  2. Channel: Grocery
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  4. Department: Beverage
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  10. Merchandising
  11. Owned Brands (Private Label)

Albertsons Redesigns and Expands Open Nature Own Label Line

Albertsons yesterday unveiled what it said was “the redesign of its Open Nature brand as the company strives to become the brand of choice for those health-conscious shoppers seeking a more balanced lifestyle. Open Nature, which is part of Albertsons Cos. Own Brands portfolio, provides shoppers with tasty foods made with thoughtfully chosen ingredients that […]
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