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Byte Raises $5.5 Million For Healthy Food Vending Machine Expansion

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Vending machines may get a makeover now that Byte Foods, a startup that makes so-called smart vending machines, raised $5.5 Vending machines may get a makeover now that Byte Foods, a startup that makes so-called smart vending machines, raised $5.5 million or more Internet-connected vending machines in the marketplace.

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Creating Cookware For A Generation That Doesn’t Cook

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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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BingoBox’s Unattended Retail Revolution

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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. And those are just the startups; the big names in Chinese retail and eTail have also made their interest known. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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Kroger’s Traditional Preferences

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All in, Kroger runs 2,620 supermarkets and multi-department stores, as well as 326 fine jewelry stores, 1,360 supermarket fuel centers and 37 food processing plants. while Belgian Delhaize operates the Food Lion and Hannaford. But Kroger of course likes being at the top, and is investing big in making sure it remains there.

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Transcript: Brian Hamburger

Barry Ritholtz

Brian Hamburger has been one of the leading authorities in the world of registered investment advisories, broker-dealers, SEC regulatory compliance. We also co-invested in an investment recently where we — RITHOLTZ: That’s right. HAMBURGER: — we participated in the same investment. Has that closed?