Some technology companies are offering their solutions to overburdened grocers at no cost to help during the coronavirus outbreak, reports Progressive Grocer.
Bringg is providing its BringgNow technology as a free solution to small- and medium-sized businesses to help launch and scale delivery operations. “The world is facing a crisis, and we are seeing businesses across every sector and market look to new solutions in order to adapt to the new normal everyone is experiencing,” said Guy Bloch, CEO of Tel Aviv-based Bringg. “In seeing the tremendous rise in demand around the world for delivery, we felt a community obligation to accelerate the release of this solution to provide businesses a free and easy tool to enable them to start, grow and manage online delivery.”
RoposiTrak Inc. has made its ReposiTrak Marketplace database of compliance-vetted suppliers available for free to retailers. Retailers can search by product category to discover new suppliers and make direct contact with them.
In addition, Chicory is making its Recipe Activation and Click-to-Cart technology available at no charge through May 31. Recipe Activation provides consumers with shoppable recipes and Click-to-Cart helps retailers make shoppable links that can be used in social media or email. "We've observed a 111 percent increase in recipe traffic over the past 10 days, which equates to millions more Americans using recipes while homebound during this crisis," said Chicory CEO and co-founder Yuni Sameshima. "Many consumers at home are cooking things for the first time, so we wanted to offer a channel for the grocery industry to help shoppers during this time by making content like recipes and how-to guides shoppable at online grocery retailers." Full Story
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