{"id":7950,"date":"2016-10-18T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=7950"},"modified":"2016-10-18T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:06:16","slug":"datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2016\/10\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-october-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

DATA<\/span><\/strong>TRAC <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Chipotle Mexican Grill <\/strong>is partnering with Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet Inc. to use drones for food delivery on the Virginia Tech campus.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Genghis Grill <\/strong>has reported a data-breach at four Dallas-area locations.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Orange Leaf, <\/strong>a frozen yogurt chain, is testing drone delivery to the campus of Hope College through franchisee Jeremy Latchaw, who also owns a Mishigami Group, a local drone dealership.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>TGI Fridays<\/strong> is rolling out a chatbot on Facebook Messenger to answer customer questions and offer reservation capabilities at select restaurants.<\/p>\n

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Supermarket & Convenience<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Albertsons <\/strong>is using MyWebGrocer\u2019s platform to enable click-and-collect and delivery at its Acme Market, Jewel-Osco, Shaw\u2019s, Star Market, and United Supermarkets banners.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>IGA <\/strong>is launching online shopping capabilities through its IGA GO ecommerce solution in a partnership with technology providers Digital Foodie and Freshop.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Natural Grocers<\/strong> is enabling customers to order Thanksgiving turkeys online for store pickup with new functionality at its ecommerce site.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Shell <\/strong>is rolling out an iPad-based POS system at select locations.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Best Buy <\/strong>has engaged Chase in a multi-year agreement that enables the electronics chain to accept Chase Pay in its stores and on the retailer\u2019s online ecommerce sites.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Walmart <\/strong>has expanded its payment partnership with Chase.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Kohl\u2019s Corp. <\/strong>is launching Kohl\u2019s Pay, the company\u2019s own mobile payments application.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span><\/strong>Walgreens<\/strong> has launched a ship to store program that enables online orders to be shipped free of charge to a Walgreens or Duane Reade store.<\/p>\n

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DATATRAC Foodservice \u2022 Chipotle Mexican Grill is partnering with Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet Inc. to use drones for food delivery on the Virginia Tech campus. \u2022 Genghis Grill has reported a data-breach at four Dallas-area locations. \u2022 Orange Leaf, a frozen yogurt chain, is testing drone delivery to the campus of Hope College through franchisee… Continue reading DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 October 2016<\/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-7950","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\/7950","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=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}