All articles by George Nott – Page 21
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NewsRobot grocery delivery company Starship raises $90m to ‘take on the world’
Starship’s autonomous robots launched in the UK in 2018, delivering groceries in as little as 15 minutes within a two-mile radius of a Milton Keynes Co-op branch
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Analysis & FeaturesHas Twitter/X become too hot for advertisers to handle?
Since Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, advertisers have left in their droves. Is there still a place for food & drink brands on the X-rated platform?
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NewsFood delivery platform rider strike leaves consumers hungry
Riders for Deliveroo, Just Eat, Uber Eats and Stuart went on strike against “appalling working conditions” and low wages
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NewsDeliveroo-la-la: Delivery platform partners with Ann Summers
The partnership sees 15 of the most popular Ann Summers products available to Hop shoppers in Brighton, Manchester, and Canning Town and Vauxhall in London
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Comment & OpinionWill disposable vape ban be the death of Shenzhen brands?
Brands such as ElfBar are reeling from the UK government crackdown
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NewsDisposable vapes to be banned in bid to tackle youth vaping
Shops in England and Wales caught selling vapes to children will be at risk of receiving an ‘on the spot’ penalty from Trading Standards officers
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Analysis & FeaturesHas Ocado done enough to impress investors and M&S?
Ocado Retail ‘weathered the storm’ of 2023, delivering impressive results. Can it deliver on its aspirations to take more grocery market share?
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NewsMeal planning and shopping platform Lollipop rebrands as Cherrypick
Cherrypick allows its more than 200,000 users to browse nearly 1,000 recipes and order the ingredients to make them in within minutes
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NewsUnilever brings TikTok cleaning trend to Asda in-store shoppers
The ‘disruptive’ activation sees interactive digital screens placed at the front of the store, on which shoppers can select their cleaning interest
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NewsAsda launches business unit covering loyalty, retail media, mobile and money
LS Eleven takes its name from the postcode of the supermarket’s Leeds head office
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Comment & OpinionMarks & Spencer, TikToks and a throwback hit
The concept apparently came from the shop floor, with M&S retail sales manager Jack Norbury submitting a request to CEO Stuart Machin for a song store teams could use on their TikTok accounts
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NewsToo Good To Go launches AI-powered platform for grocery retailers
The Too Good To Go platform is being rolled out this month by Spar International across its 14 markets
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NewsIT glitch sees Tesco online customer orders cancelled
Customers found their orders had been cancelled at short notice, with the supermarket warning them it was “unable to reschedule these orders”
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Comment & OpinionSecrets of Your Big Shop: Michael Mosley investigates sugar, TikTok trends… and farts
Mosley rigged an Asda with secret cameras, helping alleviate a family’s health concerns
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NewsAsda appoints new retail media network operator
Research by Boston Consulting Group suggests advertising on retailers’ owned channels offers “robust margins” of 70% to 90%
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NewsSainsbury’s taps StrongPoint for manual picking solution
StrongPoint’s in-store manual picking solution – which the company claims to be the world’s fastest and most efficient – is being rolled out estate wide
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NewsUK’s first university campus robot deliveries commence
Peyk robots are available for grocery stores, cafés and restaurants to offer deliveries to students, but can also be booked by students for ‘peer to peer’ deliveries
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NewsSimplyFresh to roll out Amazon’s JWO tech across three more stores in 2024
It launched the tech for the first time last month at its LittleFresh branded forecourt store – its smaller format that focuses on food to go – at Gatwick Airport
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NewsHelloFresh fined £140k over ‘deluge’ of spam marketing messages
HelloFresh says it has changed its text and email marketing policy after being fined £140,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office
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Comment & OpinionYou Are What You Eat: Netflix gets twins to explore diet effects
The alike genetics of the twins make them the perfect subjects for dietary experiments