All articles by George Nott
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Comment & OpinionFamous farmers, plant-based wins and food waste challenges
One of the most successful rebrands in recent years has been the almost unanimous industry move from ’vegan’ to ’plant-based
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Comment & OpinionImpact Makers podcast provides straight-talking scrutiny
Throughout, the podcast stays hyper-focused on why the subject at hand matters to brands
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NewsTesco and Adobe sign AI deal to boost Clubcard personalisation
The ‘strategic AI partnership’ is focused on personalising the content and offers Tesco serves up to its Clubcard members and ‘better anticipating’ their needs along the shopping journey
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NewsIceland rolls out AI forecasting to ‘keep shelves stocked’
Iceland has rolled out the Invent.ai platform to automate replenishment decisions
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InterviewsHow to keep recipe box customers: lessons from Mindful Chef’s CEO
The Covid-era ‘hyper-growth’ for recipe boxes is over. But Mindful Chef CEO Fabien Desiage believes there’s plenty of room for his health-driven brand
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NewsSainsbury’s supplier portal glitch gives users access to rivals’ sales data
“Some users may have seen data they would not usually have access to”
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NewsTesco launches meal-planning, basket-building in-app AI assistant
It can converse with customers to find personalised recipe ideas, and add the required ingredients to their basket.
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NewsTesco Media launches video ads on website and app
It’s the first time video ads have been made available to brands to run on Tesco.com or the Tesco app
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NewsOcado tech workers consider strike in protest of swingeing redundancies
The redundancies – which staff are currently being consulted on – will affect 72% of the headcount at the Barcelona office, leaving just 47 roles remaining.
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NewsAsda rolls out Deliverect tech to manage on-demand orders across Express stores
Through a partnership with Deliverect, the tech organises orders from multiple delivery channels ‘into a single operational flow’
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NewsOcado seeking to extend full basket same-day delivery to ‘as many UK locations as possible’
Ocado told The Grocer it was ‘working hard to expand the number of same-day slots available across as many UK locations as possible’
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Comment & OpinionSorted Kids: YouTube channel offers gadgets, experiments and foodie fun for children
The Sorted Food dads have launched a side channel aligned with their (and their audience’s) current life stage
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Analysis & FeaturesWill AI shopping kill the supermarket website?
AI chatbots are muscling into e-commerce with product recommendations and even purchase features. Can supermarket websites survive?
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NewsIceland trials Strongpoint online order picking tech
The discounter has signed an agreement to test StrongPoint’s order picking software to fulfil ‘all its grocery e-commerce orders, including both scheduled deliveries and quick commerce orders’
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NewsJoybuy launches NSYNC-inspired debut TV ad
NSYNC’s 2000 hit Bye, Bye, Bye has been adapted to become the sonic signature of Joybuy in its debut TV ad campaign
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NewsBan sees landfilled vapes fall but ‘vapocalypse continues’ research finds
Despite the ban in June last year, the number of devices thrown away ‘remains high’
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Comment & OpinionYouTuber FatherPhi exposes AI’s limitations and lies
YouTuber FatherPhi poses incredibly straightforward tasks to the likes of ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini
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NewsJust Eat and Pasta Evangelists under investigation in CMA’s dodgy review crackdown
The CMA is investigating the businesses to determine whether they have infringed consumer law.
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NewsOcado calls cops on rival at Stuttgart trade show
Ocado has called German police on picking robot rival Brightpick after alleging the company has infringed one of its patents.
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NewsYeast-made oil biotech launches first commercial product for cosmetics industry
Clean Food Group said its CLEANOil product delivers “the sensorial quality and functionality associated with premium oils”