X5 teams with Evigence Sensors for Green Dot project
Russian retailer X5’s Perekrestok supermarket chain is implementing a system based on visual food freshness sensors.
The Green Dot project will be used for 300 products in the X5 Smart Kitchen offering of ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook foods, delivered to 460 supermarkets across Central Russia.
The solution enables independent monitoring of product quality and storage conditions both by Perekrestok employees and customers, with sensors indicating the actual temperature conditions experienced by each item and their compliance with storage requirements.
This is a joint project with FoodTech startup Evigence Sensors, one of four winners of X5’s innovation scouting project held in July 2019 in Israel. Perekrestok has the exclusive rights to use Evigence sensors in Russia.
“Our customers can always rely on high product quality, and we are introducing innovations to improve that even further.”
“The Green Dot will create a new level of transparency for our customers, as well as ensure a higher level of control for our cold chain and storage conditions,” says Dmitry Medvedev, Commercial Director at Perekrestok.
“Moreover, the solution will improve our store operations, giving employees an additional tool to control freshness and select products to be written off. Innovations help us to enhance our services, create a more comfortable shopping experience and boost customer loyalty,” he adds.
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