SpartanNash Bolsters Fresh Departments Using Artificial Intelligence Through Afresh Partnership

December 20, 2022 SpartanNash

Food solutions company SpartanNash announced its partnership with one of the world’s leading fresh food technology companies, Afresh Technologies. SpartanNash will pilot the Afresh platform, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered predictive ordering and inventory management solution, at 10 of its owned Family Fare grocery stores in the Grand Rapids, Mich. area.

Leading Retail, Grocery AI Company Enters UK Market

November 16, 2022 Focal Systems

Focal Systems, the industry leader in retail automation, today announced it has entered the UK retail market, having joined the British Retail Consortium (BRC) in August and opened its first office in Europe. Focal Systems, which pioneered the “Self Driving Store” Operating System (FocalOS), will use its industry-leading AI technology to help retailers improve margins, increase sustainability, and better serve customers.

Trigo Raises $100M to Scale AI-Powered Frictionless Grocery Retail Platform

October 27, 2022 Trigo

-Trigo, an Israel-based computer vision company building the infrastructure for autonomous retail stores and retail analytics has raised $100 million in a new equity financing round to scale deployment of autonomous urban supermarkets across Europe and the US, enter new geographies, and develop its comprehensive store and inventory management software application suite, StoreOS™.

Church Brothers Chooses Throughput Inc. for AI-Powered Supply Chain Predictions

October 25, 2022 Church Brothers

Church Brother Farms, a leading fresh vegetable grower, processor, and shipper announced today that it has chosen ThroughPut Inc., the industrial AI supply chain pioneer, as its preferred supply chain data partner. This decision is driven by Church Brothers’ initiative to leverage its data to better serve its customers, and to guide its decision making process to optimize profitability.  Church Brothers grows over 40,000 acres and ships more than 50 million cartons on 60,000+ trucks annually, across over 400 skus, presenting a complex organizational scope suited for ThroughPut’s vast capabilities.

Piggly Wiggly Midwest Partners with Focal Systems to Leverage Artificial Intelligence and Automation to Transform the Shopper Experience

October 14, 2022 Focal Systems

Focal Systems, the industry leader in retail automation, today announced a partnership with Piggly Wiggly Midwest stores. Piggly Wiggly Midwest will be piloting the Focal Operating System (FocalOS) in its Wisconsin and Illinois stores. FocalOS digitizes the entire store in order to automate and optimize ordering, inventory management, merchandising and in-store labor with the objective to deliver a better experience to customers.