groceries – Impact Lab

Breakthrough Thinking, Food, People Making a Difference, Shopping

Toronto pay-what-you-can store aims to tackle landfills and hunger

June 30, 2018

Initiative aims to reduce dumping of ‘waste’ and sell it at prices set by buyers.

In a bright, airy Toronto market, the shelves are laden with everything from organic produce to pre-made meals and pet food. What shoppers won’t find, however, is price tags. In what is believed to be a North American first, everything in this grocery store is pay-what-you-can.

The new store aims to tackle food insecurity and wastage by pitting the two issues against each other, said Jagger Gordon, the Toronto chef who launched the venture earlier this month.

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App, Business, Science & Technology News, Shopping

You may soon be able to skip the grocery checkout line at Kroger

January 13, 2018

After a 25-store test run over the last couple years, Kroger is expanding the Scan, Bag, Go service to roughly 400 stores during 2018. Somewhat similar to Amazon’s Go convenience store, shoppers at Kroger will be able to fill their shopping basket with scanned items and exit the store after a quick stop at a self-checkout station.

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Business, Driverless vehicles, Food, Science & Technology News

Ocado is testing self-driving vans that can deliver groceries in London

July 7, 2017

One day, your groceries might be delivered by robot. That’s the future online supermarket Ocado has been exploring, as it runs a trial in East London of a self-driving delivery van.

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Analysis, Food, Latest Trend

Are meal delivery services the future of groceries?

April 2, 2013

Would you ever use a meal delivery service?

Are meal delivery services the future of groceries? The sheer volume of venture-backed meal delivery services that have cropped up over the last year can only mean one of two things: Either there is a sudden, massive demand for this service, and it has finally figured out an economically viable model.

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Breakthrough Thinking, Great New Product, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, New Inventions

A Self-Cleaning Fridge Concept

January 16, 2011

A new concept that could change how we preserve our food.

Not many of us realize this, but refrigerators are household appliances that play a much more important role than we give them credit for. Imagine if refrigerators would not have been invented; how we would preserve groceries and dairy products. The rectangular shaped, multi compartment refrigerator allows us the comfort of storing our food supplies for weeks on end in pristine condition. Ever since its inception, refrigerators have maintained a traditional shape and operated on the same mechanics. Innovations have largely been restricted to features such as auto-defrost. The University of Central Lancashire and online supermarket Ocado have come up with a concept for a new age refrigerator that marks a step ahead in refrigerator technology…

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