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Walmart China introduces AI-powered self-service produce scales

Walmart China is deploying a self-service fresh produce scale that makes weighing produce more efficient and faster for the shopper, according to a press release. With conventional self-service scales, customers...

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The “Most Successful Promotion of the Year 2019” awards were presented at the online professional day

  The “Most Successful Promotion of the Year 2019” awards were presented at the online professional day. Exciting presentations, great entries, valuable awards, proud winners, and nearly 100 people attended...

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Spar Slovenia Launches Online Shopping Service For Essential Items

Spar Slovenia has rolled out a new online shopping service that allows customers to choose from 250 essential food items. The Spar ‘Online Basic’ service aims to ease the grocery...

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Poliloop, which develops microbes that break down plastics, became the Hungarian startup of the year

The biggest energy startup competition in Central and Eastern Europe, PowerUp, ended with the victory of Poliloop, which consists of Hungarian developers! The Hungarian startup of the Year also became...

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Albert Heijn To Introduce Milk From Climate-Neutral Farms In 2021

Dutch retailer Albert Heijn has announced plans to introduce milk from farms that have neutralised their greenhouse gas emissions by 2021. The retailer has also extended its collaboration with Royal...

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Nestlé Calls For Mandatory Nutri-Score Labelling Across The EU

Nestlé has called for the adoption of Nutri-Score as a mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling system across the European Union (EU). The food giant is part of a coalition of stakeholders...

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Sales Of Refrigerated Sandwiches Fall By 30% In Mercadona

Spanish retailer Mercadona has seen a 30% decline in the sales of refrigerated sandwiches following the COVID-19 pandemic. The retailer attributed this decline to change in consumer habits as Spain...

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How and at what price we can keep our employees

There is no question that the key to a successful restart of the economy is to keep our employees, but how and at what price? – Baja Sándor, Managing Director...

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Tesco Ireland Expands ‘Click & Collect’ Services

Tesco Ireland has announced that it has expanded its ‘Click & Collect’ services in ten locations in the country to help customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the...

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Britain’s Co-op Warns Of Financial Hit From Coronavirus Crisis

Britain’s Co-operative Group has said that additional costs associated with the coronavirus crisis could be up to £275 million (€315 billon). The owner of the country’s sixth largest supermarket chain,...

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Checkpoint Launches ‘SmartTemperature’ Solution For Detecting Fever

Checkpoint Systems – a global leader in source-to-shopper solutions – has launched a new solution titled SmartTemperature that detects high body temperature in people and provides fast and accurate alerts....

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Plant-Based Meat Could See Boost Post COVID-19 Outbreak

Plant-based meat alternatives could see sales increase once the COVID-19 epidemic has subsided, an industry analyst has suggested. Andy Coyne of GlobalData Food noted an uptick in plant-based protein sales...

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NRA releases guidance for restaurant reopenings

The National Restaurant Association released guidelines to be used in conjunction with the instructions that restaurant operators receive from authorities during their re-opening phase-in. The guidance is a basic summary...

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Coronavirus (COVID-19): how The Coca-Cola company is refocusing its business

As part of its Q1 results announcement, the company withdrew its previous guidance for the full year. Coming into the quarter it was delivering sold volume growth of 3%, excluding...

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This year’s Gourmet Festival will be missed

The Gourmet Festival is definitely not being held this year; the event, which is one of the leading gastro festivals in Hungary, would have been held in Millenáris Park between...

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In Spain, Asparagus Lies Unpicked As Lockdown Shuts Out Migrant Workers

About half of farmer Jaime Urbina’s asparagus crop lies unpicked in his fields in central Spain as border closures to curb the coronavirus block Eastern European seasonal labourers. Right at peak food-harvesting...

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FairPrice launches mobile supermarket in Singapore

Singapore supermarket chain FairPrice has launched a mobile grocery service dubbed ‘FairPrice on Wheels’, delivering essential groceries closer to customers’ homes. With FairPrice on Wheels, customers living far away from...

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Fearing new virus wave, France refines end of lockdown plans

France offered retailers some relief on Thursday, saying it wanted them to reopen when a nationwide lockdown ends on May 11, though some curbs could remain in certain areas to...

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The return of the customer

German city centres are experiencing a significant increase in pedestrian frequencies following the easing of corona restrictions in retail. Customers are returning to shopping locations. However, detailed census data from...

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EU Sets Out Support For Struggling Farmers

The European Commission has proposed measures to support farmers hit by the coronavirus restrictions, including aid to store surplus dairy and meat products. Under the proposals, the Commission will grant aid...

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Houston malls may re-open for curbside pickup orders

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has issued a “retail to-go” plan that may allow malls in the state to take orders and deliver them curbside on their properties and several Houston...

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Thousands of UK pubs will go under without bailout, industry warns

Thousands of pubs will close for good unless they are granted a special bailout, the industry trade body has warned, after the government said pubs would be among the last...

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Amazon to launch ultra-fast delivery service in UK

Amazon is reportedly retrofitting nine of its existing depots in order to handle fresh produce and fulfil grocery orders within hours. The service is said to be a merging of...

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Shoppers Resume Stockpiling As UK Govt Extends Lockdown, Study Finds

Shoppers in the UK resorted to a second wave of stockpiling in the week ended 19 April after the government extended the lockdown, according to latest data from Edge by...

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Oktoberfest to be cancelled this year

This year’s Oktoberfest, the famous German beer festival, will be cancelled – the Bavarian prime minister announced on Tuesday – 444.hu wrote after Deutsche Welle. Although the pandemic-stricken Germany bans...

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Asda Introduces ‘Scan & Go Mobile’ Service In All Stores

UK retailer Asda has rolled out the ‘Scan & Go Mobile’ service in all 581 stores to encourage contactless shopping in wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The service allows customers...

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Refresco Sees Irregular Demand Due To COVID-19 In Q1

Soft drink bottler Refresco has said in a trading update that demand across its customer base has been irregular in the first quarter of its financial year due to the...

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Coronavirus Threatens To Trigger New Round Of Global Food Crisis

The global coronavirus pandemic threatens to cause a huge shock to international food trade and trigger a new food crisis, a top agriculture official in China has said. The comments came as coronavirus outbreaks...

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IKEA aims to start reopening stores in Europe in May

IKEA store owner Ingka Group, the world’s biggest furniture retailer, aims to start reopening shops in Europe in May after closures and sliding demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic slashed...

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Germany to Reopen Stores in First Step Toward Post-Virus Era

Retail spaces of less than 800 square meters (8,611 square feet) will be reopening, along with car dealerships, bike shops and book stores. Bars, restaurants, gyms and larger stores will...

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