Fix insider oct 2

Payment methods are evolving too, especially in China.

Paying for tea with my palm, raised hand emoji, China moved far beyond basic QR codes.

Palm recognition and facial scans from WeChat Pay and Alipay are everywhere here.

The core of e-commerce is picking and packing, but the tech innovations seem to struggle as people are preferred by many.

Akado is selling off a half-acre robotic grid pick system ahead of ERETH DC closure, will we see any serious interest? Lidl were rumored to be embarking on a tech project with Akado but that was denied.

But now we see Aldi outsourcing the picking and packing to Deliveroo couriers.

Tech helps through an app showing then where is the stores the orders items are displayed.

I mentioned before how interested I am in Mark Lohr, who sold online retail companies Diapers.com and Jet.com to Amazon and Walmart, respectively, in deals that totaled almost $4 billion.

His new business wonder is rolling up tech firms to enable him to automate food prep and delivery.

We've built an AI platform that knows you better than you know yourself.

It knows your food preferences, knows your food sensitivities, knows your health goals, knows your budget, and is able to, basically, autonomously feed you, he said.

Ideally, these autonomous meals will arrive exactly when you're hungry and contain exactly what you want or need.

He's also talked about creating personalized nutrition profiles for people based on a blood test and developing customized meal plans.

You probably think that's crazy, right? He asked, grinning.

I do.

At this point, I also think it's completely believable.