We’ve known for quite some time that food waste is a growing global issue, impacting the world’s economy and environment. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that processing wasted food generates 3.3 billion tons of greenhouse gases annually worldwide. In the U.S. alone, up to 40% of the food produced ends up uneaten and tossed to the trash. The Natural Resources Defense Council tells us that the amount of food thrown away every year in the U.S. equals approximately 20 pounds of food per person, every month!

Amazon is giving Prime members 10% off hundreds of sale items at Whole Foods and weekly discounts on best-selling items. Prime members can receive these exclusive deals and savings by downloading the Whole Foods app and scanning it at checkout. The new perks were available starting May 16 in Florida and…

GroundTruth, a global technology platform designed to drive offline visits and sales by leveraging location as the primary source of intent, has unveiled a new suite of performance-based pricing models called True Performance. The solution is designed to leverage location-based marketing to allow advertisers to pay only for results or actions that precisely meet their business objectives.

“Source. Sell. Repeat”. This, in a nutshell, is what e-Commerce — or any commerce for that matter — is all about. For thousands of years, people have made a living by sourcing products and selling them. But while the basic idea remains the same, the tools of the trade change constantly. In fact, the pace of change keeps accelerating. For the past decade or so, data has been the name of the game. With the ability to track the entire workflow and break it down into components came the ability to understand the weak points in the funnel. This understanding is the first step on the way to optimization. Even minute changes can increase margins and contribute to profitability or reduce inefficiencies.

Following a successful pilot in 2017, Lenta is sharpening its customer-focused pricing approach by deploying Revionics Price Optimization across all of its hypermarkets and supermarkets this year. The retailer will be positioned to leverage advanced analytics services powered by AI and machine learning, which includes:

First Insight has released ElastiCast, a solution designed to enable retailers to forecast price elasticity of new products to determine optimal prices and increase margins. By collecting consumer data and processing it through First Insight’s proprietary algorithms, ElastiCast enables merchants, planners and marketers to analyze various pricing scenarios and predict how consumers will react to different price points throughout the product’s lifecycle — from initial pricing to markdowns to clearance. These results enable retailers to see the distribution of demand before they go to market, so they can set prices based on data.

A long-awaited result of the Amazon-Whole Foods acquisition is finally here: Amazon will start delivering groceries from Whole Foods via its Prime Now one- and two-hour delivery service in select markets, including Austin, Texas; Cincinnati; Dallas; and Virginia Beach, Va. The service is expected to expand into more U.S. markets throughout 2018. Prime…

When it comes to gathering data, few retail categories handle a greater volume than the grocery business. With potentially hundreds of thousands of SKUs and millions of transactions, it’s no surprise that supermarkets have been at the forefront of many important data-driven innovations over the decades, from barcode scanners and panelist data to loyalty programs and even the humble coupon. But this is also a crowded marketplace with fierce competition, including brick-and-mortar specialty food retailers and the expansion of grocery sections in big box stores. Then, of course, there is the loud march of e-Commerce into the grocery space providing a myriad of pickup and delivery options, while the biggest online behemoth, Amazon, is shaking up the entire space with its recent acquisition of Whole Foods. Grocers are well aware that in order to keep up, they need to leverage their hard-earned data and glean the best insights from consumer behavior and shopping preferences.