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Sunday, April 04, 2021

Albertsons Partners with Google

Interesting out of market play,  but I do remember being shown a Google physical store mapped space that digitized the experience of shopping lists.  See my tags below on shopping lists.  Where will this take it?  To the 'worlds most predictive grocery engine"?  Expected more from Amazon and Dash on this.   Investigating, send me more. 

Threatened by Amazon, Albertsons Partners With Google to Digitalize the Grocery Shopping Experience

In Forbes, Johan Moreno March 31, 2021

A multi-year partnership between Google and Albertsons Companies, the No. 2 grocer in the U.S. by store count, aims to digitalize the grocery shopping experience at a time when competitor Amazon is expanding its brick-and-mortar grocery footprint via Amazon Fresh. The partnership would integrate Google's Cloud AI technologies into Albertsons' operations to create what Google called "the world's most predictive grocery engine." The move could help Google as it works to make its cloud business profitable and help Albertsons take on Amazon Fresh. Albertsons has launched Google's Business Messages in a limited capacity to provide shoppers with Covid-19 vaccine information, and plans to release the shoppable maps and predictive grocery-list-building capability soon.   ... '

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