{"id":12082,"date":"2019-04-26T12:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=12082"},"modified":"2019-04-26T12:17:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:17:47","slug":"datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-april-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/04\/datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-april-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 April 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Retail<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Amazon.com Inc<\/strong>. announced its cashierless stores, called Amazon Go, will soon accept cash payments. Customers can add money to their Amazon account using cash at participating retail locations through the Amazon Cash program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Dollar General Corp<\/strong>. announced that customers are now able to complete Western Union money transfers at all of its Dollar General stores.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. has announced a new partnership with Google to launch voice-assisted grocery shopping. Walmart shoppers will be able to place orders for pickup or home delivery through Google Assistant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walmart Stores Inc<\/strong>. is partnering with KidBox, an online subscription-based service for children\u2019s apparel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong> Grocery\/Convenience <\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 The Kroger Co<\/strong>. has announced plans to launch an autonomous grocery delivery service in the Houston market. The new service will first comprise a fleet of manual and self-driving Toyota Prius cars with Nuro designed unmanned cars to be introduced into the concept later this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Pilot Flying J<\/strong> has launched a new mobile app geared toward the professional driver, auto traveler and RV customer. The updated app allows users to select their driver profile and features are then customized to meet the drivers\u2019 needs based upon geographic location, preferred stops and amenities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 TravelCenters of America LLC<\/strong> has named Cord Financial Services as its exclusive ATM solutions provider for TA, Petro Shopping Centers, TA Express and Quaker Steak &amp; Lube locations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Drug\/Health\/Beauty<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u2022 CVS Health<\/strong> is now offering same-day delivery nationwide. CVS will partner with Shipt, a Target company, to deliver prescriptions the same day they&#8217;re filled. The service will cost $7.99.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc<\/strong>. is teaming up with Narvar Concierge to offer FedEx OnSite services, which allows customers to drop off and pick up FedEx packages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/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 570 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>Retail \u2022 Amazon.com Inc. announced its cashierless stores, called Amazon Go, will soon accept cash payments. Customers can add money to their Amazon account using cash at participating retail locations through the Amazon Cash program. \u2022 Dollar General Corp. announced that customers are now able to complete Western Union money transfers at all of its&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2019\/04\/datatrac-retail-foodservice-technology-april-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 April 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-12082","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\/12082","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=12082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}