Following successful pilots that improved in-store efficiencies and freed up employees to better serve customers, GIANT Food Stores, Carlisle, Pa., introduced Marty, a new robotic assistant.

Ahold Delhaize, The Netherlands, partnered with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, to expand the company's Artificial Intelligence for Retail (AIR)Lab.

Infinity Meat Solutions, a subsidiary of Retail Business Services (RBS), a support services company of Ahold Delhaize USA, Salisbury, N.C., broke ground on a new 200,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art fresh protein packaging facility in North Kingstown, R.I.

Retail Business Services, a Salisbury, N.C.-based subsidiary of Ahold Delhaize USA, Carlisle, Pa., announced plans to construct a state-of-the-art, 200,000-square-foot fresh packaged meat facility in Rhode Island.

Ahold Delhaize, The Netherlands, launched The Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) at Amsterdam Science Park in The Netherlands.

To help support the development of socially and environmentally responsible supply chains around the world, The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), Silver Spring, Md., created the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI).