Tag Archives: Grocery store
Amazon opens its first-ever Fresh grocery store in Los Angeles
Amazon says it’ll roll out a new grocery store format next year
Amazon is wading further into the physical retail world as it confirmed plans to open a different type of grocery store in 2020. Reports earlier this year suggested Amazon was working on a low-cost grocery format as an alternative to Whole Foods and...
Amazon is reportedly planning a new, low-cost grocery chain
Amazon is reportedly planning to open dozens of grocery stores in major US cities, which will be under different branding from its Whole Foods chain. The first location may open in Los Angeles before the end of this year, while it's signed leases for...
Googly-eyed Robots Are Coming to Grocery Stores
Pay no attention to the robots that want to wipe out humanity and enslave any survivors. Instead be distracted by this silly looking googly-eyed robot. Isn’t he adorable? Giant Food Stores, a supermarket chain popular in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, will soon getting some silly looking robots in their stores. Within six months time, each of the 172 supermarkets will be working with these robots who are each called “Marty.”
Giant’s parent company, Ahold Delhaize USA, based in the Netherlands, also owns Martin’s and Stop & Shop locations, hence the name. These stores will also be getting robots, so Marty is going to show up in 500 locations all told. My question is this: How long until someone paints one of these so that it looks like that hot dog from Sausage Party? Because that’s what it kinda looks like already.
Each Marty will alert humans to problems spills or other trip hazards with voice warnings. What else can it do? I have no idea, but I’m sure that small kids will grab onto it and go for rides until it eventually tips over, crushing someone while its googly eyes go crazy. They’ll have no choice but to take it out back and put it down at that point. Sad really.
[via The Washington Post via Popular Mechanics]
Amazon Testing a Grocery Store with No Checkout
It was rumored to be happening for quite a while now, and Amazon just officially announced its first ever brick and mortar grocery store. The big new idea is that there’s no checkout. All you have to do is just tap your phone on a detector when you walk in and then walk out with your food. Buyers will be automatically billed through their Amazon accounts.
It’s called Amazon Go, and the first store in Seattle will open to the public in early 2017. Right now only Amazon employees or beta testers have access. So far it looks like the store’s primary focus is on prepared food made by in-house chefs, and apparently there are RFID chips on the packaging that communicate with an app on your phone, as well as a computer vision system to monitor customers and packages.
It will be interesting to see where this goes and what kinds of bugs they will need to work out. If successful, Amazon could one day rule the grocery store world, just like they do with online retail.
[via Gizmodo]
Whole Foods Under Investigation for NYC Overcharges
A digging of the facts has begun regarding Whole Foods Markets in the Big Apple that is New York City. Detectives found that the upclass comestibles chain was guilty of overcharging its consumers....
Safeway to be sold off for $9 billion
The private equity firm, Cerberus Capital Management, which also happens to be the owner of the Albertsons and several other supermarket chains is now going to purchase the Safeway for $9 billion....
Company rolls out Apples iBeacon to grocery stores
Startup InMarket starts using Apple's microlocation service iBeacon in grocery stores NEW YORK (AP) — Pretty soon, your phone might remind you to pick up laundry detergent as you peruse...
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AmazonFresh Now available in San Francisco with 30 Days Free Grocery Delivery
Amazon has expanded its grocery delivery service AmazonFresh beyond Seattle and Los Angeles. Amazon announced on Wednesday that its next-day and same-day grocery delivery service is now available in...
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