April 7, 2021 | GroceryGeniuses Blog

Umamicart, an online Asian grocer, enters the e-grocers marketplace

GroceryGeniuses April 7, 2021

The newest addition to the e-grocers marketplace will offer a one-stop-shop for shoppers craving Asian cuisines. Umamicart aims to bring online shoppers and offline suppliers under one roof to ensure accessibility and availability of Asian ingredients. The e-grocer offers produce, meat, tofu, seafood and assortments ranging from Chinese, Thai, and Korean flavours. Umamicart will introduce DIY meal kits and plans to share tips, ideas, and recipes revolving around unfamiliar Asian ingredients for amateur cooks.

Northgate Gonzalez Market to screen employees with HT COVID-19 scanner time clock

GroceryGeniuses April 7, 2021

Northgate Gonzalez Market, a California-based grocer, has rolled out Health and Temperature (HT) time clock to detect COVID-19 in employees and vendors. The grocer partnered with Dallas-based Logile, a machine learning and AI firm, to implement this HT clock software. The clock is a thermal temperature reader and has face recognition software to instantly notify if an employee has a fever.

Walmart plans to expand mobile clinics to ramp up COVID-19 vaccination

GroceryGeniuses April 7, 2021

Walmart is actively expanding its operations to vaccinate people from vulnerable areas and has partnered with multiple community organizations. The retail giant is offering COVID-19 vaccine in more than 3800 of its stores in urban cities. Now it is planning to serve medically underserved areas of the U.S. through the mobile wellness fleet to vaccinate as many folks as possible.

Yelp, a firm offering crowdsourced reviews, is planning a comeback

GroceryGeniuses April 7, 2021

Yelp is all set to make a powerful comeback as it experienced a decline in the performance curve. It aims to regain its market share with upgraded features to beat competitors. The reviews offering app is ramping up its business model by adding a waitlist integrated with takeout orders, customer profiles, POS and backend analytics. These features would offer an improved search engine with HD food pictures highlighting available dishes to customers.