Kroger To Reportedly Eliminate 37% Of Corporate Workforce at Yahoo. “According to an internal staff memo Bloomberg obtained, (Kroger) will eliminate roughly 3,000 corporate positions.” Read more | Bloomberg (subs.)

 

French supermarket fridges get hacked, heating to 122°F and sparking fires at CNBC. “European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Christophe Hansen warned that “the weaponization of food has become a reality.” Read more

 

Visa wins approval to prepare a bank card clearing business in China at AP

 

Hardware Stores Have a Secret Weapon for Wooing Customers at WSJ. “Cats humanize the hardware store,” (Kaplanis) says. “We want to be a place where [customers] do more than just come in and buy something. People come in and see people they haven’t seen in a while, they chat, they see the cats and talk to each other.” WSJ subs.

 

Google Opens AI Mode to Prescription Drug Ads at Adweek. “Google is testing ads for branded prescription drugs in AI Mode and AI Overviews, opening its AI search platform to one of the most tightly regulated categories in advertising, the company confirmed to ADWEEK.” Adweek subs.

 

America’s Favorite Fruit Is Being Bruised by the Iran War at NY Times. “Everything is costing more money,” said Danny Dumas, a senior vice president at Del Monte North America. “If you ask me, it is a crisis.” NY Times subs.

 

Albertsons Companies, Inc. Q2 ID sales decreased 0.8% Press release

 

Albertsons Wants $8 Billion From Kroger After Failed Merger at WSJ. “Albertsons is accusing Kroger leaders of making “lowball offers” to federal regulators to largely keep the most-profitable stores in the combined company, and hive off the weaker-performing ones, according to a court filing unsealed Monday.” WSJ subs.

 

This Robot Will Deliver Your Food, if It Doesn’t Get Smashed First at NY Times. “Within the past year: A crowd in Los Angeles encircled and pounded a delivery robot; a man in Miami tried to hurl one off a bridge; another attacked one in the street; in Sacramento, three men filmed themselves toppling and slamming a robot on the sidewalk, racking up nearly 2.5 million views on social media. The caption? “Protecting the world from A.I.” NY Times subs.

 

Target says it ‘has no cooperative agreements’ with ICE after accusations at Yahoo. “Following an incident in which ICE agents shot a man not far from a Target store in the Bronx, Ocasio-Cortez made a statement condemning the shooting and asking Target to “stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE..” Read more

 

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