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Newsletter · By Curt Prins · Official site

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Sep 30, 2026
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Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Grocers earn two cents, and marketplaces want both of them (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    Instacart walks your aisles 15 times a day. Who else sees those gaps? (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    Five Steps to Fix How Grocers Greenlight AI (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Sep 3, 2026

    Ten Million Against Thirty-Six Thousand (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Sep 2, 2026

    Your Chatbot Sucks (opens the original)

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