Food

The distinction between eating away from home (restaurants) and eating at home (groceries) is blurring as consumers use connected devices and apps integrated with payments, to move seamlessly between buying restaurant food to eat at home and groceries and prepared food at the grocery store or convenience stores to cook at home.

Building A Bridge To The Homeless With Breadcoin
Building A Bridge To The Homeless With Breadcoin
January 15, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

Washington, D.C. is both a rich city and a poor city. Filled with federal workers and contractors, the nation’s capital has a high cost of living:...

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Why Stouffer’s Thinks It Can Serve Up Meal Kit Innovation
Why Stouffer’s Thinks It Can Serve Up Meal Kit Innovation
January 11, 2019  |  Retail

Stouffer’s has been a staple of American dinners for more than 96 years, since it was first established as a food and beverage company in...

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Helping QSRs Avoid Physical Retail’s Fate
Helping QSRs Avoid Physical Retail’s Fate
January 03, 2019  |  Merchant Innovation

Once upon a time — about a decade ago — there was this QSR executive who observed the rise of online retail, but figured those...

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Ethereum Co-founder Sounds Off On IBM Blockchain
Ethereum Co-founder Sounds Off On IBM Blockchain
November 27, 2018  |  Blockchain

Ethereum’s co-founder doesn’t seem impressed with the IBM blockchain. The company has been among the firms investing both money and mind power into blockchain, evidenced...

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Google Takes On Facebook With Biz ‘Follow’ Option
Google Takes On Facebook With Biz ‘Follow’ Option
October 26, 2018  |  Google

Google has announced two updates to Google Maps that will make it easier for users to follow preferred places, as well as find out about...

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Why Walmart Says Blockchain Can Improve Food Safety
Why Walmart Says Blockchain Can Improve Food Safety
September 27, 2018  |  Blockchain

Origins are all the rage in modern life: origin stories, family origins via DNA and digital ancestry databases. Add to that Walmart’s latest effort to...

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Mayochup, Beet-B-Qs And Rosé Marshmallows — The Summer Of 2018 In Strange Eating
Mayochup, Beet-B-Qs And Rosé Marshmallows — The Summer Of 2018 In Strange Eating
May 26, 2018  |  Merchant Innovation

It’s been called many things: Fry Sauce, Go Sauce, Russian Dressing, Dutch Sauce, Golf Sauce. On occasion, it’s called nothing in particular. It’s the time-honored...

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Appetite For Apparel: How Retailers Are Using Food To Sell Fashion
Appetite For Apparel: How Retailers Are Using Food To Sell Fashion
November 13, 2017  |  Retail

Can good food restore consumers’ appetite for brick-and-mortar retail? Luxury brands seem to hope so, with several designers introducing food experiences in an effort to...

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