Not only food/grocery topics this time, but some tech stuff too, like bitcoin and machine vision. But Doritos too. I need to better understand the whole cryptocurrency thing. I’ve heard of people mining for bitcoin and I don’t really know what that entails, but it seems that at […]
Caught My Attention
First off, my thoughts are with Houston and surrounding areas dealing with the Harvey flooding. It’s awesome seeing online how the people are helping each other. There are good people in the world. Shout-outs to my friends James and Amy who are safe and now are collecting food for the […]
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A lot of variety in this edition of Caught My Attention, from Oprah to Kit Kats. Trying to tame down the Amazon/WFM media, but can never really get away. . . I’ve always been intrigued by all the different (and weird) flavors of snacks in Japan, especially Kit […]
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Still a lot of things out there about the whole WFM/amzn merger. But a few other bits of flavor and tech getting mixed back in. Augmented reality (AR) might change the way we shop. Ikea and Apple are working together on being able to “see” your room with […]
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The past week has been consumed with the announcement of Amazon wanting to buy WholeFoods. I’m sure most folks are exhausted from all the media coverage, so I may just hit upon a few different angles and observations that I see, then move on to other things that caught my […]
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Most of the things catching my attention recently has been around the grocery store and online retailing. There is a little here on culture/photography and a hit of hot sauce. There is a lot of information out there on the interwebs, hard to pick the ones that are worth spending […]
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Continuing on from my notes, catching up and posting a double header. In the news a lot lately, Whole Foods has a lot of pressure on it. They are no longer the only game in the health conscience grocery segment. And this article points out that they have […]
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Things have been a little hectic for me around The Ranch, I’ve been making notes when things catch my attention, but I haven’t had the bandwidth to put together blog posts. So this might end up being a double-header or 2-parter, just to break things up a bit and to […]
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A bit of a mix in this edition of Caught My Attention, but the major threads today are social media and grocery, with bit of hot sauce and umami for flavor. I still haven’t gotten into a rhythm in doing these posts that I want, but I’m working on it. […]
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I didn’t realize that it’s been two weeks already since the last blog post here. So a bit of a long one, with a couple long reads, but all did somehow catch my attention enough to share. Came across something that I don’t know how I missed when […]