{"id":10466,"date":"2017-10-17T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2017-10-17T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:35:09","slug":"datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/10\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-october-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2022 <\/span>Costco Wholesale<\/strong> is enhancing its ecommerce abilities through a partnership with Instacart and a new online shopping service known as CostcoGrocery, a two-day delivery of shelf-stable groceries and other items.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Meijer<\/strong> is partnering with IBM to reorganize its information technology department with hopes to streamline its tech strategy and enhance omnichannel offerings.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Walmart<\/strong> announced a number of technology and ecommerce initiatives: the company\u2019s curbside grocery pickup program for online shoppers will be rolled out to 1,000 stores; recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will be able to make online purchases; Walmart will open less than 25 new stores in its next fiscal year and focus on expanding e-commerce.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Williams-Sonoma<\/strong> will begin accepting Venmo for bridal registry purchases.<\/p>\n

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Foodservice<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Shake Shack Inc<\/strong>. is testing kiosk-only ordering at its Astor Place location.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Sonic Corp<\/strong>. announced that a malware attack may have compromised some credit\/debit card numbers.<\/p>\n

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Grocery\/Convenience<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Ahold\/Delhaize<\/strong> is testing a robot named Marty at a Giant Food Store in Lower Paxton Township, PA that moves through the aisles and notifies store associates of hazardous floor conditions, shelve stock conditions and price checks.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Aldi Inc<\/strong>. is now accepting all forms of contactless payment, including Apple Pay and Android Pay at its 1,700+ stores nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Kroger<\/strong> will also institute its \u201cScan, Bag, Go\u201d mobile app-driven self-checkout service to 400 stores in 2018 after a successful test at 20 locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Harris Teeter<\/strong>, a Kroger banner, has partnered with omnichannel platform provider Myxx<\/strong> to develop a website that allows customers to look for recipes and populate shopping lists; it also lets shoppers send the recipe-based grocery lists to Harris Teeter’s ExpressLane e-commerce service and place orders for in-store pickup or delivery.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Speedway<\/strong> has placed its network of 2,550 ATMs on the Allpoint Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discount\/GM \u2022 Costco Wholesale is enhancing its ecommerce abilities through a partnership with Instacart and a new online shopping service known as CostcoGrocery, a two-day delivery of shelf-stable groceries and other items. \u2022 Meijer is partnering with IBM to reorganize its information technology department with hopes to streamline its tech strategy and enhance omnichannel offerings.… Continue reading DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 October 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-10466","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\/10466","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=10466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}