3D-Printing represents a great opportunity for vending machine startups to innovate through an easier iteration process, enabling the whole industry to reinvent the customer experience.
Food Retail
A Machine Learning Pioneer in Grocery: You Guessed It Kroger
Kroger is paving the future for grocery shoppers through innovative, practical applications of machine learning, robotic process automation, and data analytics. The fact that a 125-year-old grocery chain based in Cincinnati, Ohio is helping lead the way may elicit raised eyebrows from industry outsiders, but grocery geeks should not be surprised.
The Tip of the Iceberg: Climate Change, Lettuce Shortages, and Tesco’s Efforts to Adapt its Supply Chain
In the face of global warming and extreme weather, how will Tesco respond to keep Brits supplied with lettuce all year round?
Can Ocado Weather the Disruption of the Grocery Industry?
Ocado has invested in a supply chain that is years ahead of its competitors’, but will these investments pay off in time to help the company weather the disruption of the grocery industry?
Digitization at Walmart
Can you think of any company or industry that hasn't been transformed – for better or for worse – by digitization? Let's see how Walmart has managed…
Supermarkets, going the way of the dodo?
With the advent of online groceries shopping such as Amazon Fresh, could supermarkets face the same fate of Blockbuster and Borders? Groceries retailers are mixing new technologies and old traditions to evolve and avoid extinction.
How is Kroger Fending off the Attack of Grocery Delivery Companies?
Millennials are shopping less and less at grocery stores in favor of restaurants and the booming grocery delivery services. Despite this, Kroger, the largest grocer in the country by revenue, is thriving. Kroger leverages technology through data collection, online ordering platforms, "smart shelves", and speedy checkout. But is that enough?
Impossible Foods: How a Burger Will Save the World
Growing cows for meat consumption is inefficient and environmentally costly, but people still need their burgers. Ladies and Gentlemen…The Impossible Burger
Walmart – Save CARBON. Live better.
The U.S. Food Retail industry is in my view a particularly important industry with respect to climate change, because its wide reach provides the opportunity to affect change across supply chains and to educate consumers. Observing the impact of climate […]