AI in Grocery Retail and FMCG
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NewsOcado selling off robotic grid-pick system ahead of Erith DC closure
The automated picking system comes with close to 100 robots and can be reconfigured to fit the buyer’s own warehouse
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Comment & OpinionWonka’s Golden Ticket: high-concept game show lacks magic
The set design is superb but the game show-cum-social experiment’s tone is all over the place
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NewsMorrisons appoints first chief artificial intelligence officer
The newly created role will establish a central data science and AI function for the supermarket
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NewsIceland Foods to use AI to calculate yellow label markdowns and cut food waste
The technology, from Retail Insight, save store staff time and ‘protect margins’ on products, by ensuring that close to expiry lines are identified more quickly
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NewsTesco, Sainsbury’s and M&S launch ‘game-changing’ AI truck collaboration
Collaboration between retailers and suppliers uses spare capacity in delivery trucks
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NewsSnappy launches AI tool to support retailers’ home delivery growth
The technology has been built to help Snappy Shopper retailers save time and get more value from their home delivery data
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Analysis & FeaturesDTC dairy still delivers in the post-Covid era
Post pandemic, direct-to-consumer orders are broadening – and dairy businesses are making the most of it
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NewsDunnhumby backs UK startup boosting brands’ visibility to AI agents
Azoma measures and improves how AI shopping agents discover, interpret and recommend products for retailers and brands
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NewsSugro UK launches AI-powered loyalty scheme
The scheme is designed to reward independent retailers for completing specific actions set by suppliers
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NewsMajority of Brits are against food delivery robots using pavements, poll finds
The YouGov poll commissioned by Living Streets found 60% of respondents wanted the bots outlawed from pedestrian pavements
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NewsJust Eat grocery chief joins AI startup
Hilbert provides business-to-consumer companies like Walmart with ‘predictive clarity into user behaviour, revenue drivers, and the actions that drive sustainable growth’
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NewsJJ Foodservice launches AI price comparison tool
The AI tool is designed to remove the time and guesswork involved in comparing supplier prices manually
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NewsOcado’s sustainable aisle almost doubles in range
The expanded aisle now features more than 440 products across 33 different categories
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NewsMorrisons expands Instacart partnership to manage aggregator app orders
The supermarket said as a result of the deal, online orders would be fulfilled “faster and more accurately”.
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NewsAnthropic releases blueprints for retailers to make own e-commerce AI bots for customers
The blueprints contain ‘the harnesses, patterns, and guardrails’ a retailer’s engineering team needs ‘to get a commerce agent running in days’
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: School food failures & Defra’s food security warning
Three in four secondary schools are serving food that’s banned, but publishing menus won’t be enough – plus this week’s picks including a stinging Defra warning on food security and the ‘chaos’ of the packaging tax system
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NewsMorrisons signs deal with NIQ to better ‘identify growth opportunities and act’
The supermarket will gain access to NIQ’s full suite of “responsive market insights, enhanced product and category intelligence, automated reporting capabilities, and self-service analytics” NIQ said
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NewsKitchen assistant app Remy introduces social media recipe extract-and-shop tool
It’s been launched in response to the fact that “the way households find recipe inspiration has fundamentally changed”, the company said
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NewsMorrisons puts 80 more jobs at risk in latest restructure
It is the fifth round of redundancies at Morrisons this calendar year as part of Rami Baitiéh’s turnaround plan
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NewsTesco appoints first group agentic AI director
Lucy Cooper joins from THG Ingenuity as Tesco’s group customer experience & agentic director