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JUNE 18, 2019

Its main mission is to update those analog lost-pet posters via a a Bluetooth-enabled tag that not only helps pet owners find their wayward pets, but also gives them access to other digital and mobile services. Better Pet Tag. The goal is to create a really affordable, much better pet tag,” she said.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The arrangement will see the outfitting of all new Nissan vehicles with Sem Parar Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID tags), providing thousands of drivers with contactless payments capabilities and expanding Sem Parar’s customer base in the region, according to an announcement.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

fast food customers pay exclusively with cash. We’ll skip the obligatory “un-Happy Meal” joke, because that misstep for a fast food titan demonstrates the slings and arrows of quick-service restaurant (QSR) automation, its importance to customer experience, and how even the industry’s best can still get a major rollout wrong.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

The big price tag on Honest Company, however, is as much a limitation as it is an honor. About a year ago, the firm was in negotiations with Unilever about a potential partnership or acquisition, but that price tag pushed them instead to grab up competitor brand Seventh Generation for $600 million. So, is Honest no longer a unicorn?

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

The experience works on the web and inside the Amazon app and comes with a $25 price tag. Other examples offered, a consumer who mentions plans to go out to eat or a desire for a certain type of food might be prompted to make a reservation at the end of the call or have an offer or coupon sent to them relating to their conversation.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

For example, users can order food from their speaker, but receive the receipt on their phone. Google also rolled out an update to the web simulator, which includes a new SSML audio design experience, giving developers more options for creating natural, quality dialog using newly supported SSML tags.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The food that appears on one’s dinner plate each night comes with no small amount of environmental cost. It takes much land, water, pesticides, electricity and fossil fuel to grow, harvest, package, transport and prepare the food required to make even the simplest possible meals. It is, admittedly, a pretty big mission.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Eating unhealthy food has a host of downsides: It shortens people’s lives, saps their energy and puts them at greater risk for things like heart disease and diabetes. Unfortunately, for our collective waist lines, junk food is cheap in terms of actual monetary expense.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Vending machines may get a makeover now that Byte Foods, a startup that makes so-called smart vending machines, raised $5.5 That is made possible by RFID tags on each item that alert the machine if the customer walked off with it. Byte is fine tuning their food offering and variety, which is important in attracting repeat customers.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Technomic’s Top 100 Global Chain Restaurant Report for 2016 found, for instance, that 68 percent of customers in Asia reported using a mobile device to place a food order in the past three months, and in the Middle East, that statistic was about 60 percent. But in North America, placing mobile orders to restaurants is still a novelty.

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JULY 11, 2017

Nobody likes getting cold food delivered to their restaurant table. Then, as guests are seated (or seat themselves), they’ll receive a Bluetooth tag to place on the table, which relays location data to the kitchen based on the zonal structure. But the solution can also be scaled to create as many zones as the restaurant needs.

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MAY 26, 2016

Whole Foods has expanded its 365 concept to Los Angeles with a new opening in the Silver Lake neighborhood. Much like an ordinary Whole Foods store, the newly opened 365 store offers grab-and-go food and grocery items, including produce, bakery, supplements and beverages, among other things.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Fast food, at least, is a firm part of Americana, and has close ties to rock-and-roll, modern youth culture and even politics.) The eatery then prepares the food and puts it in the pickup pod. Fast casual and casual dining restaurants tend to get scant cultural respect. Take one of the newest developments: pickup pods.

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JUNE 15, 2018

According to Chain Store Age , the 10,000 square-foot store will carry more than 8,000 items offered both in-store and online, focusing on fresh foods, fast delivery, value and everyday convenience. Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Amazon, of course, is no stranger to the food business, having bought Whole Foods in 2017. And a $1 billion price tag? Real has more than 80 stores in the country and had been looking to beef up its eCommerce operations, with – as Reuters noted – 2 percent of sales done over the web.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Digital price tags alongside every product show the Prime price and list price. and owns Whole Foods. Its 4-Star stores in select locations allow customers to test out Amazon devices and smart home accessories that work with Alexa. The company also has several bookstores in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2020

We have free food to eat. Free cookies, free tacos, free pizza, free beer – go ahead, name a snack food. And Popeye’s is offering a free chicken sandwich – an impressive offer when one considers that as of mid-summer 2019, a Popeye’s chicken sandwich was the most coveted food item in the continental United States. A lot of it.

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MAY 2, 2019

And when a customer speaks with an employee or interacts directly with the CallJoy agent, the call is recorded and transcribed, which enables small business owners to tag and search for a conversation based on topic. Summers used one of the top Chinese fusion takeout eateries in Austin, Texas as an example of CallJoy’s success.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

The 10,000 square-foot store carries more than 8,000 items offered both in-store and online, focusing on fresh foods, fast delivery, value and everyday convenience. Designed by Tampa-based design and architecture firm api(+), the layout gives fresh vegetables, fruit and frozen foods prominence, along with popular pre-prepared dishes.

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JULY 19, 2017

For those at the smaller end of that food chain, QR technology unlocks the speed and security of high-end point-of-sale systems at a digestible price tag, giving them the tools to keep up with larger competitors.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

As of now, customers must still manually scan their purchases before the system bags for them since not every item in the store has been fitted with an electronic pricing tag. Lawson said every item should have a tag by the end of February. The scale of the system looks ideal for handcart-sized grocery shopping trips.

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APRIL 3, 2019

One study indicates that the answer is not really — millennials cook two fewer meals per week than their baby boomer counterparts and choose pre-packaged/pre-prepared foods 18 percent of the time, compared to 5 percent for baby boomers. The pans come with graffiti-styled labels on the bottom and plantable paper tags embedded with basil seeds.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Clarifai offers customers an image and video recognition API that users can teach to automatically tag, organize and search visual content using machine learning. “If For video, Clarifai’s API doesn’t just send back one set of tags. “We We have them for travel, weddings, food, and fashion is coming up soon.”.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These are some of the reasons that consumers are visiting brick-and-mortar grocers – from Wegmans Food Markets to Kroger – and how these grocers (as well as technology providers) are rolling out innovations and features to serve in-store customers. Roughly three in 10 – or 27.1 About one in 10 – or 9.9

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MARCH 18, 2020

The pain started to become very evident on Wednesday (March 18), as the trade group that represents mall owners asked for a government bailout and big retail names started to put a price tag on the revenue losses they expected to incur.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Our vision is to be the most indispensable digital food and cooking resource. Data-driven food discovery . But we have more than 2,500 unique tags and classification terms that can be added to any recipe. For example, those tags and categories power AllRecipes.com’s shoppable recipes.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Already, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey is available to “review” your food through Alexa. Through its companion app , Echo Look owners can see live previews from the camera, take pictures, survey outfits in their closets, tag favorites and compare styles.

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MAY 15, 2019

Special tags can trigger purchases with Apple Pay without the need for a special app. iPhones can read a near-field communication (NFC) tag that is specially encoded to display an interface for an Apple Pay purchase when a user holds a device near it. And tech companies are already working with retailers on payments innovation.

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APRIL 26, 2018

A consumer on the hunt for fresh food and grocery items steps into a convenience store with nary a human physical worker in sight and checks in with a mobile payments app. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. The consumer then chooses the desired products, scans them via mobile phone, checks out and leaves.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

In a joint statement with Microsoft, Kroger Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen said, “Kroger is building a seamless ecosystem driven by data and technology to provide our customers with personalized food inspiration. With one such experience, Kroger and Microsoft are creating a digital shelving system called the EDGE Shelf.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. Banking does not have the same logistics challenges that freight and food delivery might, but it does have its own challenges. Call it a tale of two bank deals.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Now, the adversary is China , and the weapons of choice are tied to tech, data, deal-making and very large price tags. Where better than from comfort foods ? Only a few decades ago, the Cold War was fought between the United States and the former Soviet Union by speeches, spying and the looming threat of nuclear annihilation.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

The habit is so tightly ingrained in American consumers that they walk in and start scanning those red sales tags before they are even consciously looking for the items they are there to buy. big-name retailers like Best Buy and Whole Foods — are taking as they embark on a project with Pricer in 2020.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. The dreaded returns season has hit retail with a predictable but painful thud. But while the season is here, it doesn’t have to be a time of dread.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Grubhub’s 2020 start has been a bit bumpy thus far — it was passed by DoorDash in late January in terms of food delivery market share, according to some estimates , and has been dogged by rumors that it is looking to put itself up for sale. Recruiting customers is hard to do — and comes with a big price tag. million, or $.05

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

The solution links drivers to a Sem Parar tag connected to the vehicle, which uses radio frequency identification to facilitate payment and invoice the user. He added that the partnership allows “McDonald’s to show, ‘We’re innovative — we’ve got the easiest ways to pay versus other fast food guys.'”

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