Schnucks has recently deployed automated aisle-scanning robots chainwide. The retailer has partnered with Simbe Robotics, a tech firm, and rolled out robots to all of its 111 stores in the U.S. The robots are now in charge of scanning fresh produce and refrigerated items. Initially, Schnucks had limited them to monitoring dry items in stores to test their capacity. The retailer assessed that robots are around four to fifteen times better than humans at handling the tiresome activity of checking the product levels.

Toast, a firm providing tech solutions to restaurants, has just filed for a $100 million IPO. On Friday, an S-1 filling report submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission revealed the information. About 48,000 restaurant locations across 29,000 customers have leveraged Toast’s technology. The tech firm made over $38 billion in gross payment volume in the past year. The pandemic was not an easy year, and Toast laid off 50% of its employees. But it recovered quickly due to the boom in e-commerce.