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Empire partners with Infarm to bring innovative and sustainable in-store farms to select Sobeys, Safeway and Thrifty Foods stores
Empire partners with Infarm to bring innovative and sustainable in-store farms to select S...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nEmpire partners with Infarm to bring innovative and sustainable in-store farms to select Sobeys, Safeway and Thrifty Foods stores\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nSTELLARTON, NS, March 9, 2020\n\n\n\nNational partnership to deliver fresh farmed and harvested in-store produce\n STELLARTON, NS, March 9, 2020 /CNW/ - Empire's family of brands is partnering with Infarm, one of the world's most advanced and fastest-growing in-store farming platforms, to grow and harvest a range of fresh produce in select Sobeys, Safeway and Thrifty Foods stores across Canada. Each vertical farming unit is a stand-alone ecosystem, enabled by machine learning and AI technology, that creates the optimum environment required for plants to flourish. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"Our goal at Empire is to be the fastest-growing and most innovative retailer in Canada. As we strive to achieve that goal, we continuously seek out first-to-market opportunities,\" said Niluka Kottegoda, Vice President Customer Experience, Sobeys Inc. \"Our partnership with Infarm is unique in Canada and offers our customers a world-leading urban farming solution. The products we will offer in store are unique to customers in urban communities. We're excited to test and learn with our customers along the way.\"\nLaunching this Spring, the first fresh produce harvests will include a range of herbs at two Safeway stores in Vancouver, 8475 Granville Street and 2733 West Broadway. Empire will place farms in stores across seven cities in Canada, (Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria , Winnipeg) growing millions of hyper local plants for our customers.\n\"Our partnership with Empire builds upon our vision to grow a resilient ecosystem that can help feed people living in cities around the world by 2050, while improving the environmental footprint of our food,\" said Erez Galonska, co-founder and CEO of Infarm. \"For example, through vertical farming we can introduce plants to markets that were previously unavailable because they were too...