Walmart Inc. has partnered with Meredith Corp.,  a multi-platform media company reaching nearly 95 percent of women in the U.S., to help millions of families plan and prepare meals faster and more easily through AI-powered meal planning, shoppable recipes, visual search, chatbots and more.

After much industry buzz in 2020, Verdant Technologies announces the roll out of its HarvestHold Fresh product life extension solution to the produce industry, after receiving EPA registration in early September. HarvestHold is a 1-MCP-based post-harvest solution that extends the usable product life of fruits, vegetables and flowers by an average of 40-50 percent and significantly reduces wastage in perishable supply chains. Verdant’s floral life extension solution, HarvestHold Bloom, was made available to global floral markets in late 2020.

Amazon announced that next year Whole Foods Market customers in Washington, DC, and Sherman Oaks, CA, will have the option to skip the checkout line.

"Several years ago, our physical retail team asked ourselves how we could make the physical shopping experience better for customers," said Dilip Kumar, Amazon's vice president of physical retail and technology. "We saw that customers didn’t like standing in checkout lines, which is how we came up with the idea to build Just Walk Out technology.

Square Roots, a leader in urban indoor farming, is expanding its retail presence with two new salad mixes, entering the $8.1 billion packaged salads and greens category. Square Roots’ salad mixes include a boost of healthy microgreens and crisp baby leaves grown across the company’s network of cloud connected and climate controlled indoor farms.

After research, consumer, and field trials, Goldenberry Farms announced commercial availability of its non-GMO Premium Select Goldenberries.

Hand-picked, and packed on site for peak freshness, the berry is larger and with more flavor than the traditional goldenberries — or cape gooseberries — available today.

Naturipe, a farmer-owned producer and marketer of berries and value-added products, continues its inaugural Summer of Snacking campaign, as fresh raspberries and blackberries enter their late-summer peak season. Naturipe’s Summer of Snacking celebration aims to help customers sell more berries by highlighting the benefits of healthy snacking done right as shoppers continue a busy summer season after a pandemic.

Americans are still snacking in record numbers, so what are some easy ways shoppers can snack healthy and make nutritious choices this month and as we head into fall?