All Technology articles – Page 3
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Promotional FeaturesConvenience is evolving: so should brand strategy
Traditional convenience sales models are failing. Precision-led activation is becoming the new growth driver for brands navigating a volatile channel.
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NewsSpecialist retail buying software startup wins £2.4m backing
London-based tech company Handshake has developed a program through which buyers can ‘make, track and execute’ commercial agreements
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NewsAsda signs up Ocado to overhaul online shopping
Asda has signed a deal with Ocado Group to completely overhaul its online shopping business
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NewsAldi opens ‘Britain’s largest supermarket warehouse’
The 1.3m sq ft distribution centre in Bardon, Leicestershire, is 100,000 sq ft larger than Lidl’s Luton DC, which it hailed as its biggest in the world when it opened in 2023
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NewsMiddle East meal delivery player Calo exits UK
Calo is ‘refocusing on its core markets and expansion into new verticals’
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NewsLipton to expand ‘social hub’ global content and creator network following pilot
The hubs, which ‘operate as an extension of the brand’s in-house team’, have already been rolled out across France, Turkey, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland
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Category ReportFilippo Berio launches research project to combat olive tree disease
After the shocks to Mediterranean olive oil supply from the extreme heat and drought conditions in 2022-2025, the industry has a new supply crisis to contend with
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NewsJust Eat pilots AI-powered WhatsApp ordering
The company claimed it to be ‘Europe’s first food and retail ordering journey on WhatsApp’
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NewsCrowdshipping platform Shopopop launches in UK
The app allows individuals – or ‘crowdshippers’ – to pick up orders picked and prepared by stores and deliver them along their daily commutes, and earn ‘tips’ for doing so
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NewsFuel theft incidents jump 23% at UK forecourts
Fuel crime prevention platform Forecourt Eye recorded 11,170 theft incidents in March and April, up from 9,089 in January and February
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NewsDunnhumby appoints new CEO
The new hire succeeds Josh Bottomley, who decided to step down after three years.
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NewsMorrisons boosts online operations, renews Clarkson’s Farm sponsorship
New vans are carrying a livery promoting the supermarket’s rapid delivery service Morrisons Now
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NewsTesco retires store picker cash prize app Earnie
The supermarket developed the Earnie Goes Picking app with tech firm Lightfoot but its contract with the Exeter-based company has now ended.
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NewsRetail media tech firm collapses months after major Iceland Foods deal
Stratacache UK owes £12.9m to creditors
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NewsTesco mounts major parcel locker rollout
The supermarket is working with Yeep, Evri and Royal Mail to install and operate parcel lockers outside stores
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Category ReportHow different providers track own label sales
Own label made the headlines in April for its newfound dominance in grocery
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NewsM&S launches vertically farmed salads
The method means leaves can be picked at the ‘perfect’ moment without any contact human hands from seeding to harvest, according to M&S
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: political chaos, pricing and loyalty schemes
This week The Grocer’s coverage, as I’m sure in many other places, has been dominated by the extraordinary political implosion we are witnessing in Westminster
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Analysis & FeaturesGetting personal: the next frontier for supermarket loyalty schemes
AI is turning supermarket loyalty schemes from a ‘blunt instrument’ into a one-to-one marketing tool. But can retailers get the balance right?
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NewsCo-op launches national digital screen advertising proposition
Co-op’s network of more than 1,000 digital advertising screens on the front of its stores makes it the fourth-largest digital screen estate in the UK