All Technology articles
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Comment & Opinion
It’s all over for Just Walk Out technology. So what’s the point of Amazon Fresh?
The fact is: Just Walk Out technology is just not all that frictionless
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Comment & Opinion
Cellular meat won’t take off in our lifetimes
It is laughable to suggest cell-grown meat will make any inroads into global consumption within 25 years, says Anthony Warner, development chef at New Food Innovation and author of The Angry Chef
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News
Media Bites 7 February: ‘stagflation’, high street footfall, tariff warnings
Papers are leading on the impact of yesterday’s interest rate cut
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News
Rapid grocer Gopuff using Morrisons supermarkets as daytime dark stores
The trial sees Gopuff orders picked, packed and dispatched from Morrisons stores
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News
‘Momentous’ launch as Meatly adds first lab-grown dog treats
A limited run of Chick Bites, produced with plant-based dogfood brand The Pack, go on sale at Pets at Home in Brentford on Friday
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News
Sainsbury’s rolls out ‘lock’ to counter wave of Nectar points fraud
Sainsbury’s has introduced the function after hundreds of Sainsbury’s shoppers have reported having their accumulated Nectar points stolen
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News
Asda launches digital in-store sampling machine
The sample vending machine was a ‘first to market innovation’ the supermarket said
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News
Banned German meat imports ’entered the UK for a week’ despite foot and mouth outbreak
A glitch in the government’s post-Brexit imports platform allowed high-risk goods to enter the country a week after a foot and mouth outbreak alert was raised
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Analysis & Features
What shoppers really think about self-checkout machines revealed
Despite its age and ubiquity, self-checkout technology remains controversial. Our survey reveals what shoppers really make of them, as we look to an even more high-tech future
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Analysis & Features
Why people earning £80k a year are still shoplifting
According to the BRC’s 2024 Crime Survey, losses from customer theft now cost retailers £1.8bn per year
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News
Sainsbury’s strips out Just Walk Out tech from checkout-free store
The supermarket was Amazon’s first international customer of its cashierless Just Walk Out technology
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News
Vertical farmer to launch Canada Water site this spring
Harvest London’s new site will be London’s largest integrated indoor vertical farm, it says
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News
Allwyn launches first digital scratchcard dispenser
The technology, which has been created in partnership with Scientific Games, will make its debut at an Asda store in Ashton-under-Lyne
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News
Pooch & Mutt acquires pet gut health firm Biome9
Natural petcare brand Pooch & Mutt has expanded its offering with the acquisition of gut health testing tech firm Biome9, which is backed by Warburtons boss Jonathan Warburton and former Pets at Home CEO Peter Pritchard
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News
MicroSalt raises £2.3m in preparation for surging demand for less salt
The low-sodium salt producer completed a multimillion-pound raise to ramp up its inventory to meet anticipated demand from snack manufacturers looking to make healthier products
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News
Self-checkouts: 37% of shoppers admit to stealing
Supermarkets self-checkout machines have ‘created a new breed of shoplifter’
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News
Tesco staff vent anger over impact of ‘nightmare’ Whoosh delivery demands
’Whoosh is the absolute worst thing to happen to Express stores’
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Comment & Opinion
Gaming set-ups are an untapped opportunity for fmcg
The gaming set-up has become a canvas for self-expression and brands can integrate themselves by understanding what gamers want, says Emma Thompson, head of agency at Golley Slater
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News
Cocoa-free chocolate maker Win-Win appoints Mark Golder as CEO
Golder brings over 30 years’ experience to the role
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News
Waitrose gives farmers biodiversity boost with free mapping tools
Waitrose farm suppliers will now get free access to Land App’s digital mapping tools