Technology Innovation

Kraft Heinz Helps Meal Planners with New App
The AI-enabled Meal Hero app helps users make customized meal plans and related shopping lists.
Blockchain Made Simple
The rapid expansion of blockchain is making it easier for business analysts to achieve operational efficiencies, create added value for their companies and enhance the customer experience.

Honest Tea Launches Vending Machines for Good

The Coca-Cola-owned beverage company has rolled out interactive vending machines that enable shoppers to donate to charity in four U.S. cities.
Tip of the Spear Technology: Third Aurora's Winerytale

CGT looks at emerging technologies that offer unique solutions to consumer goods companies seeking to transform their organizations. This week: AR-enabled self-translating wine labels from Third Aurora.
Nestle Embarks on Open Blockchain Pilot

The pilot will trace milk back to its origins as a way of bringing more transparency to the food and beverage company's supply chain.
Wipro Launches Dallas Center of Excellence

Wipro Limited and Pivotal Software opened the Pivotal Center of Excellence at Wipro's Dallas office.
Gucci Slips into an AR-Enabled Try-On Tool

The luxury shoe manufacturer freshened up its mobile app with a tool that lets shoppers to virtually try on Ace sneakers.
How Smart Brands Are Redefining Convenience

Brands need to understand the evolving definition of "convenience" and the nuanced trade-offs that consumers are willing to make in order to get it.
Converge Retail Debuts Universal Display System at GlobalShop 2019

Coverage Retail, Hayward, California, unveiled its latest kinetic retail display platform at GlobalShop 2019 in Chicago.
Sherwin-Williams Quizzes Shoppers on Color 'Personality'

The new Color ID quiz determines the shopper's best color fit based on answers to 10 questions — such as couch and movie-watching preferences.