Retailers will face an AI adoption race, where AI-equipped retailers will displace slower moving retailers.
July 31, 2019
The global spending by retailers on artificial intelligence (AI) services will reach $12 billion by 2023, up from an estimated $3.6 billion in 2019, and over 325,000 retailers are projected to adopt AI technology over the period, according to a new study by Juniper Research, UK.
The survey found that physical and digital routes to market continue to converge rapidly.
July 31, 2019
More than half of companies’ digital transformation investments, in the form of marketing and trade spend, are being wasted, according to a new survey by AlixPartners, New York.
hoopo’s geolocation solution enables companies to locate their valuable assets utilizing low-power wide area (LPWA) networks.
July 30, 2019
hoopo, Los Angeles, announced a $3.5 million funding round from Chartered HighTech JIHTV1 fund, Singapore; TAU Ventures, Israel; and Global IoT Technology Ventures (GiTV), Japan, totaling $5 million from previous rounds from initial investors.
The study demonstrated how to capture a worker’s safety performance and translate the data into personal fatigue levels.
July 29, 2019
The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) Foundation, Park Ridge, Ill., released a fatigue research report that shows the value of wearable technology in the workplace.
RSA America’s mobile platform allows retailers real-time coupon validation and management at every touch point of the redemption process.
July 29, 2019
Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG), Kansas City, Kan., established a partnership with RSA America (RSA), a Schaumburg, Ill.-based supermarket technology company.
Tara McHugh has created multiple products to recover that waste and turn it into something valuable.
July 29, 2019
Tara McHugh, center director for USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Washington, D.C., investigated ways to take food processing waste and turn it into value-added products.
Nielsen predicts that sales of all legalized cannabis in the United States will reach $41 billion by 2025.
July 29, 2019
Although a large sector of cannabis products remain illegal under U.S. federal law, state-legalized cannabis and cannabidiol (CBD) from hemp will translate into billions of dollars in revenue, according to research from Nielsen, New York.
Beetnik intends to improve on-shelf presence and enhance overall appetite appeal.
July 29, 2019
Beetnik Foods, Austin, Texas, launched a new packaging design aiming to showcase the product in a more eye-catching format and more accurately convey its benefits to health-conscious consumers.