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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

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Shelf Engine’s grocery order automation technology applies AI to food order volume so that grocery customers can reduce their food waste by as much as 32%. Continue reading Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine→

Standard Cognition raises another $5.5M to create a cashier-less checkout experience

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As Amazon looks to increasingly expand its cashier-less grocery stories — called Amazon Go – across different regions, there’s at least one startup hoping to end up everywhere else beyond Amazon’s empire. Standard Cognition aims to help businesses create that kind of checkout experience based on machine vision, using image recognition to figure out that […] Continue reading Standard Cognition raises another $5.5M to create a cashier-less checkout experience→

Whole Foods says it has ‘resolved’ point-of-sale breach incident

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Whole Foods says it has resolved a data breach that it reported last month, in which the company detected unauthorized access to credit card information in some point-of-sale systems. The grocery chain released a statement Friday that it investigated the incident with law enforcement and “a leading cyber security forensics firm.” The company said it has stopped the unauthorized access and replaced the compromised point-of-sale systems. Whole Foods detected unauthorized software on its payment systems that serve taprooms and restaurants at some of its stores, the statement said. The company says those payment systems are separate from its main grocery store point-of-sale systems. “The software copied payment card information—which could have included payment card account number, card expiration date, internal verification code, and cardholder name—of customers who used a payment card at these venues,” the company said. Whole Foods has not said how many customers may have been impacted, but did say that the impact falls […]

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Whole Foods investigating breach tied to point-of-sale systems

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Whole Foods Market, the American grocery giant recently purchased by Amazon, announced on Thursday it’s investigating the unauthorized access of payment card information via some of the company’s point-of-sale systems. In a statement posted on the Whole Foods website, systems “used at certain venues such as taprooms and full table-service restaurants located within some stores” were leveraged to access payment data. The impacted stores use different systems than Whole Foods’ primary point-of-sale system, the company said in a statement. Additionally, the company says Amazon systems do not connect to the affected Whole Foods systems, and transactions on Amazon.com have not been impacted. The preliminary statement was is short on specific information: The scope of breach, who was hit and who has been notified has not yet been announced. The company operates more than 460 stores throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Whole Foods says its retained the services of a “leading cybersecurity […]

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