{"id":11226,"date":"2018-12-20T14:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=11226"},"modified":"2018-12-20T14:36:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T19:36:59","slug":"datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-december-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/12\/datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-december-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 December 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foodservice<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Burger King <\/strong>gained attention when it offered a one-day deal for customers using the revamped BK app. Customers could order a Whopper for a penny if they were within 600 feet of a McDonald\u2019s<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Pizza Hut<\/strong> will acquire QuikOrder, an online ordering platform, in a move to boost its digital business.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Shake Shack <\/strong>released its new mobile app and introduced nationwide web ordering.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sweetgreen<\/strong> plans to invest a large portion of the $200 million it raised in its last funding round on technology, including delivery systems and blockchain technology to provide supply chain transparency. The current round of investment values the company at $1B.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Starbuck\u2019s<\/strong> announced a partnership with Uber Eats that will expand delivery to 2,000 US locations in early 2019. The company recently stated that in the last 2 years, mobile orders and payments in the US increased from 5% to 12%.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Taco Bell <\/strong>will begin installing ordering kiosks in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Retail<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Overstock <\/strong>plans to sell its retail business by February.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Petco <\/strong>partnered with Yantriks to introduce instore pickup for online purchases at 1,500 US stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>., in collaboration with Japanese online giant Rakuten, has opened its first Walmart e-commerce site in Japan.<\/p>\n

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Grocery\/Convenience<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Albertson\u2019s<\/strong> implemented the Identity Cloud platform by identity software provider Okta.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. opened the seventh Amazon Go store in Chicago in the Ogilvie Transportation Center. The company has revealed plans to open the first international Amazon Go concept in London\u2019s West End, and plans to open Amazon Go locations in airports in the future.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Whole Foods Market <\/strong>and Instacart are ending their 5-year partnership following Amazon\u2019s acquisition of Whole Foods last year.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Kroger Co<\/strong>. will soon introduce its first automated warehouse in Monroe, OH.<\/p>\n

\u2022 SpartanNash Company<\/strong> has launched Check Out Now, a scan, bag, and go mobile app.<\/p>\n

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Drug\/Health\/Beauty<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 CVS Health <\/strong>expanded its MinuteClinic Video Visits program, available through the CVS Pharmacy App, CVS.com, and two more states, bringing total coverage to 18 states plus DC.<\/p>\n

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Home Center & Hardware<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\u2022 Lowe\u2019s <\/strong>opened a new $150 million, 1.1-million-square-foot, automated direct fulfillment center in Coopertown, TN.<\/p>\n

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Just because we don\u2019t mention it here doesn\u2019t mean it didn\u2019t happen \u2013 or we didn\u2019t capture it. In the past four weeks, we\u2019ve updated more than 900 companies in the Database of Foodservice Technology and Database of Retail Technology, with many of those companies\u2019 records updated at multiple points.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foodservice \u2022 Burger King gained attention when it offered a one-day deal for customers using the revamped BK app. Customers could order a Whopper for a penny if they were within 600 feet of a McDonald\u2019s. \u2022 Pizza Hut will acquire QuikOrder, an online ordering platform, in a move to boost its digital business. \u2022… Continue reading DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 December 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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-11226","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\/11226","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}