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The Mother of Dragons Emilia Clarke visits ice cream shop Game of Cones in Cornwall.

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The company says its handle sanitisers help reduce consumers’ ”fear and hesitation” about visiting shops Government-funded Innovate UK has awarded a £90,000 grant to a Chesterfield startup 99point9 Hygiene, to develop an automatic supermarket trolley handle sanitiser. The non-departmental public body, part of the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s UK Research and Innovation group, is backing the startup so a product can be brought to market at the start of next year. 99point9 already produces a small unit that can be fixed on to doors, to spray handles with disin...

By George Nott2020-12-30T11:35:00+00:00 The coronavirus pandemic has demanded solutions to new problems, and ones that can be applied swiftly. Supermarkets have turned to technology to solve a multitude of Covid induced issues in 2020, testing and adopting tech faster than ever before. Here are some of the notable new technologies that have become part of the ‘new normal’ shopping experience. Queueing With a limit on the number of customers that can safely shop in store at any one time, queueing has become inevitable at busy times. But tech has helped ease the inconvenience. Several sup...