{"id":10087,"date":"2017-08-15T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2017-08-15T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T11:21:04","slug":"datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/08\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-august-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Discount\/GM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Amazon<\/strong> has filed a patent application for \u2018ground-based mobile maintenance facilities for unmanned aerial vehicles\u2019 in another possible effort to improve package deliveries through drones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. has included Dallas-Fort Worth and Nashville as test markets for trials of its Scan &amp; Go app, which allows shoppers to scan items in-store and pay immediately with a Walmart account.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Foodservice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Papa John\u2019s<\/strong> is taking steps to advertise more like an ecommerce company, as 60% of company transactions come through digital channels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Taco Bell Corp<\/strong>. is testing a trial with Lyft that allows customers to add a Taco Bell restaurant stop to their ride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Subway\u2019s <\/strong>new fresh forward store redesign features new technology upgrades including self-ordering kiosks and charging ports at select locations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Grocery\/Convenience<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Kroger\u2019s Harris Teeter <\/strong>division is testing a mobile application called Myxxrecipes which connects recipes from a large database to customizable shopping lists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Food Lion<\/strong> rolled out a new mobile application that allows users to search for recipes and specific ingredients and add them to a shopping list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Stop &amp; Shop<\/strong> and <strong>Giant Food<\/strong> divisions, both owned by Ahold Delhaize, have integrated with Peapod to transfer recipe ingredients from customer shopping lists into online ordering capability with a single click.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount\/GM \u2022 Amazon has filed a patent application for \u2018ground-based mobile maintenance facilities for unmanned aerial vehicles\u2019 in another possible effort to improve package deliveries through drones. \u2022 Walmart Stores Inc. has included Dallas-Fort Worth and Nashville as test markets for trials of its Scan &amp; Go app, which allows shoppers to scan items in-store&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/08\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-august-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 August 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-technology","tag-eupdate","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}