{"id":8819,"date":"2017-02-14T09:02:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=8819"},"modified":"2017-02-14T09:02:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T09:02:54","slug":"datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/02\/datatrac-retail-and-foodservice-technology-february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u2022 <\/span>Target <\/strong>has plans to roll out mobile payment features to one or more of its apps in 2017 exclusively to shoppers with a Target credit card.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Walmart<\/strong> is testing a blockchain system co-developed by IBM that allows cloud-based logging of supply chain transactions in a ledger to help improve the food safety and security of its packaged produce.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Yankee Candle<\/strong> is rolling out a new point-of-sale system called TCxWave from Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions and its Together Commerce Alliance business partner Certified Retail Solutions.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span>Cava Grill<\/strong> is using a platform of electronic-sensor technology to assist the chain with proper staffing based on traffic, while also providing information regarding supply chain.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Panera Bread Co<\/strong>. announced during a fourth quarter conference call that digital sales make up approximately 24 percent of sales at company-owned units.<\/p>\n

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

\u2022 <\/span>7-Eleven Inc<\/strong>.\u00a0has entered into an agreement with NEC Corporation<\/strong> to be the exclusive supplier of both POS hardware and software across the chain\u2019s US and Canada stores.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Schnucks Markets Inc<\/strong>. is partnering with Instacart<\/strong> to offer delivery services to the St. Louis area; in addition to Schnucks, Shop ‘n Save<\/strong>, Whole Foods Market <\/strong>and Costco<\/strong> are also partnering with Instacart in the city.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Fareway Stores <\/strong>instituted a digital coupon system at its 117 stores that allows shoppers to create an online profile by product type for coupons.<\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>PCC Natural Markets <\/strong>is partnering with Instacart<\/strong> at its Bothell, WA, location; the curbside pickup service is currently available for certain zip codes in Bothell, Duvall, Everett, Kenmore, Maltby, Mukilteo and Woodinville, WA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discount\/GM \u2022 Target has plans to roll out mobile payment features to one or more of its apps in 2017 exclusively to shoppers with a Target credit card. \u2022 Walmart is testing a blockchain system co-developed by IBM that allows cloud-based logging of supply chain transactions in a ledger to help improve the food safety… Continue reading DATATRAC: Retail and Foodservice Technology \u2013 February 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-8819","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\/8819","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=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}