UK retailer Sainsbury’s is testing new technology that it says will help improve supply chain efficiencies and reduce food waste.
Specifically, Sainsbury’s new system will monitor the food coming off supermarket shelves on a minute by minute basis, enabling the company to make real-time decisions on where to send food from its warehouses. (more…)
Last Thursday I found myself in our nation’s capitol, Washington, DC. I spent the day running around town with a lobbyist and consultant who formerly served as an advisor to Vice President Gore, and was also the Staff Director at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee where he advised nineteen Senators on environmental and energy issues. In a nutshell this guy was dialed in, and was kind enough to set up a day’s worth of meetings for me with senior staffers and advisors to folks like Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Representative Henry Waxman, as well as with White House environmental and procurement officials and policymakers. It was a fascinating day and highlighted both what is right and wrong with Washington.
