{"id":10275,"date":"2017-09-19T08:46:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T08:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10275"},"modified":"2017-09-19T08:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T08:46:55","slug":"datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/09\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-september-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>Domino\u2019s Pizza Inc<\/strong>. will begin testing self-driving vehicles for pizza delivery to random customers in Ann Arbor powered by Ford Fusion Hybrid Autonomous Research vehicles staffed with researchers to gauge customer response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Little Caesars Enterprises Inc<\/strong>. began testing mobile order and payment for pizza via an automated self service station dubbed the Reserve-N-Ready platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>TGI Fridays <\/strong>has experienced a 30 percent growth in take-out sales that the company attributes to last year\u2019s inception of online ordering.<\/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>Aldi <\/strong>began offering a pilot grocery delivery program with Instacart in the Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles markets in August 2017.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>SUPERVALU <\/strong>is providing value to its wholesale customers with combo of IT and product supply services while attempting to offer the combination to more retailers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<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>Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. has reached 1,000 locations of its click-and-collect Grocery Pickup service. Walmart launched online ordering in 2013 in the Denver market, and has continued to grow its online grocery service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">\u2022 <\/span>Williams-Sonoma <\/strong>will begin accepting digital wallet payments from money-transferring service Venmo for bridal registry purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foodservice \u2022 Domino\u2019s Pizza Inc. will begin testing self-driving vehicles for pizza delivery to random customers in Ann Arbor powered by Ford Fusion Hybrid Autonomous Research vehicles staffed with researchers to gauge customer response. \u2022 Little Caesars Enterprises Inc. began testing mobile order and payment for pizza via an automated self service station dubbed the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/09\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-september-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 September 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-10275","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\/10275","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=10275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}