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The complex nature of defining “Healthy”

Retailers are under constant pressure to diversify and emphasise their product offering through a health lens. However, differentiating “healthier” products is highly complex, requiring data-led nutrition and demanding attention from regulatory framework, nutritional guidelines, and product label knowledge.

Are you confident in the results and coverage of your product search? Think again.

One of the most important aspects of a food retailer’s site is its search functionality. Without a robust system in place, you inhibit your customers’ ability to shop for the products they need. With the correct indexing customers can find what they’re looking for with ease.

Embracing Innovation: Spoon Guru Welcomes Tech Leader Alex Rutter to Board

Announcing the launch of Spoon Guru’s innovative Nutrition Intelligence app for grocery retailers on Google Cloud Marketplace. This will enable us to better deliver unique solutions, at scale, to more retail clients.

Tech Leader Alex Rutter Joins Spoon Guru’s Board to Accelerate AI-Powered Nutrition Solutions

Announcing the launch of Spoon Guru’s innovative Nutrition Intelligence app for grocery retailers on Google Cloud Marketplace. This will enable us to better deliver unique solutions, at scale, to more retail clients.

Build vs Buy – The never ending conundrum

Incorporating an AI-based Nutrition Data component to your existing technology stack might seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. Here’s why the easiest solution is to partner with a specialized technology provider like us, and gain immediate access to cutting-edge solutions without the hassle of in-house development.

HFSS: what has been done before and do these restrictions work?

We took a little look at what has been done around the world to help populations shift towards healthier choices – what seems to be working, and which interventions have failed and why. 

US consumers say they eat healthier, but are they really?

While nearly half of consumers believe health and wellness have become more important over the past year during the pandemic, the reality is that healthier products occupy less than a quarter of consumer spend. So how do we shift that desire into changing what is in consumers’ shopping baskets?

Where people in the US moved during the pandemic and the effect on grocery retail

From coast to coast, Americans migrated toward less-dense, more-affordable areas. Supermarkets must heed the population shift warning.

HFSS: the what, the why, and the how

New HFSS legislation is coming into force in the UK October 2022. We explain what HFSS is, why it’s happening, and how the legislation is being rolled out.