{"id":11876,"date":"2019-03-28T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=11876"},"modified":"2019-03-28T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:26:10","slug":"datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/03\/datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Foodservice<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Jack in the Box Inc.<\/strong> is releasing it\u2019s first-ever customer mobile app. Users will have one-tap functionality to place orders in advance and pay using their mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Sam\u2019s Club<\/strong> announced that it will test technology designed to make its popular Scan &amp; Go service faster and easier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Grocery\/Convenience<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Associated Food Stores<\/strong> is partnering with CB4 to use artificial intelligence to improve the store experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 The Kroger Co.<\/strong> is introducing Kroger Pay, a mobile payment solution that combines a customer\u2019s payment and loyalty card information. Kroger Pay recently launched in the retailer\u2019s Columbus, Ohio division. The service will roll out to 10 additional markets in the spring, with plans to go nationwide later this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 The Kroger Co.<\/strong> is expanding an autonomous grocery delivery partnership with autonomous vehicle manufacturer Nuro from Arizona to Texas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Meijer Inc.<\/strong> is rolling out its Shop &amp; Scan to additional stores. The mobile shopping checkout program is now available in 23 stores throughout Chicago and Northwest Indiana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Pilot Flying J<\/strong> has launched its Fleet Center, its new virtual maintenance system as part of the company&#8217;s Truck Care service platform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong> Drug\/Health\/Beauty <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Sprouts Farmers Markets<\/strong> and <strong>Harps Food Stores Inc.<\/strong> have launched same-day online grocery delivery through Instacart at more of their supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.<\/strong> is adding the Alipay mobile payment platform to more than 7,000 Walgreens locations nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>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 550 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":"<p>Foodservice \u2022 Jack in the Box Inc. is releasing it\u2019s first-ever customer mobile app. Users will have one-tap functionality to place orders in advance and pay using their mobile phones. \u00a0 Retail \u2022 Sam\u2019s Club announced that it will test technology designed to make its popular Scan &amp; Go service faster and easier. \u00a0 Grocery\/Convenience&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/03\/datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-march-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 March 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-11876","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\/11876","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}