AI Is Catching Criminals and Rewarding Valued Customers at This Grocery Store

[Intelligent Income Daily]( Welcome to Intelligent Income Daily, the free daily newsletter from wealth and income expert Brad Thomas. Brad’s experience spans three decades of real estate and stock market booms and busts. Today, he and his team focus exclusively on the safest and most predictable ways to earn sustainable and growing income in any market condition. You can find all past issues [here](. And if you have any questions, please contact Brad and his team [here](mailto:memberservices@widemoatresearch.com). AI Is Catching Criminals and Rewarding Valued Customers at This Grocery Store By Brad Thomas, Editor, Intelligent Income Daily They’re on to “the banana trick.” Grocery stores around the country have been putting in more self-checkout lanes. They were supposed to save money and make checkout faster. After all, grocery stores used to pay multiple cashiers to ring up groceries while customers waited in line. But now a single employee can watch up to six self-checkout booths at the same time while customers scan and bag their own groceries. It sounded like a good idea. But then, grocery stores realized they were losing more money. All because some dishonest shoppers had figured out how to scam the self-checkout machines. They’d enter the code for something cheap – like a banana – and put something expensive – like a steak – onto the scale when the self-checkout asked them to weigh their “bananas.” But that’s about to change. To protect their profits, grocery chains are using artificial intelligence (AI) to crack down… Here at Intelligent Income Daily, we’re focused on finding the safest income investments on the market. AI is creating new winners and losers in every industry. So it’s more important than ever to invest in companies that are embracing new technologies to build an advantage. Today I’ll explain how one grocery store chain is using AI to transform its business. 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[Click here to discover Phil’s secret while you still can…]( -- Catching Criminals and Rewarding Valued Customers Along the way, a grocer’s inventory “shrinks” – due to damaged or spoiled food, sticky-fingered employees, or dishonest customers shoplifting or using things like “the banana trick.” But a business can’t innovate and grow when the “shrink” gets too large. That’s why in 2020, grocery store giant Kroger partnered with electronics manufacturer Lenovo and the AI platform Everseen. It’s now using AI to improve its self-checkout system. The software watches real-time video to check for problems. When it finds something wrong, it gives shoppers a chance to fix the error or call for help. The results were impressive. In just two years, Kroger’s AI solution helped customers fix 75% of self-checkout errors without the help of an employee. That gave customers a faster checkout experience and reduced the shrink. It also helped Kroger stock its shelves better by keeping track of exactly what was going out the door. Kroger is taking things further by running its online delivery program on AI. It partnered with British grocery retailer Ocado to create high-tech warehouses. In these warehouses, AI directs thousands of robots to pick out customer orders for delivery. It’s smart enough to use as few bags as possible and even keep fragile items on top. And those aren’t the only ways Kroger is embracing AI. It also recently partnered with chipmaker Nvidia. It’s using AI to keep track of how fresh its food is and to pick the best delivery routes. That’s important because more and more of Kroger’s customers are buying groceries online. Earlier this year, Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen revealed the company’s digitally engaged customers increased by 13% – and these customers spend nearly three times more. And Kroger is turning its treasure trove of data on more than 62 million households into a new source of profits through its 84.51° customer research team. Their research helps food companies target their promotions to the people most likely to buy their products by using AI to deliver personalized coupons, recommendations, and rewards. And it’s already working. Kroger customers are redeeming more than 180 million digital coupons each quarter… increasing Kroger’s bottom line. How You Can Profit So how can you profit from Kroger’s impressive use of AI? The most direct method is by investing in Kroger itself. Kroger is a reliable dividend grower that has increased its payout 18 years in a row. It’s also a great recession-resistant business because people tend to buy more groceries and cook at home instead of eating out at restaurants when times are tough. Kroger shares currently yield 2.8% and trade at just 9.4x earnings. And that’s a 29% discount from its historical average of 13.3x earnings. So now is a great time to invest in the company. And if you’re looking for a second option – another company that’s using AI to boost its grocery business is Amazon. Although Amazon doesn’t pay a dividend, there’s a unique way to collect a reliable growing yield from the mission-critical infrastructure the company uses to run its AI programs. I call it “Amazon’s Secret Royalty Program.” To learn more about this opportunity, [view my special report](. Happy SWAN (sleep well at night) investing, Brad Thomas Editor, Intelligent Income Daily IN CASE YOU MISSED IT… [Biden About to Trigger the Final Collapse of the U.S. Dollar?]( Thanks to President Biden, America could soon be involved in World War III. In fact, former Wall Street insider Teeka Tiwari says: “World War III has already begun. But the biggest risk to Americans is not a nuclear war. 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