Foodservice
Solutions® cross functional, multi-discipline team has been thriving in our
Omni-channel retail environment. With a focus on the rapidly expanding
Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh food space aka the grocerant niche Foodservice
Solutions® outside eyes have been leaving success clues. Today’s clues come
from GE utilizing big data that closely mirrors
our findings.
The Foodservice
Solutions® was thrilled and please to read the results from GE Appliances
advanced development engineers insights into “Home of 2025”. The goal of the “Home of 2025” project was to
go beyond the typical cycle horizon of three to five years.
GE’s team stated
that they "We conceptualized how we will prepare meals, wash clothes and
interact with information as families over the next dozen years."
Here is some of
what they found:
The death of
one-purpose appliances: Much like the smartphone has become a TV, a navigation
system and a phone, so will appliances integrate disparate functions into
uber-appliances. This becomes more important as sizes of homes and apartments
continue to shrink.
The supermarket
goes the way of the video store ... and the milkman returns: Smart appliances
perform inventory management and automatically place online orders for food. As
consumers desire more fresh food delivered to their home, refrigeration units
can be installed with access outside of your home, so you need not be present
for delivery.
Honey, I ate the
houseplant: As the desire for fresh food grows, indoor plants become a food
source as synthetic beehives provide pollination.
Aging in place: As
older consumers rely on fewer people to take care of them, appliances that take
biometric information and dispense medication can mean independence for many
years to come.
Foodservice
Solutions® regular readers of this blog know we regularly predicted similar
change. While we believe that grocery
stores and supermarkets will be around in 2025 we believe the largest food
retailer in the United States will be Walgreens in 2025.
www.FoodserviceSolutions.us Since 1991 Foodservice Solutions® has
been the leader in the grocerant niche.
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