Albertsons Is Putting Lettuce on the Blockchain

It's the latest retailer to join IBM’s Food Trust to track products

Like Walmart before it, grocer Albertsons is putting its lettuce on the blockchain by joining IBM’s Food Trust network and piloting the technology to trace romaine lettuce from a single distribution center.

In a release, IBM said this will help the retailer “overcome the obstacles that have existed when a traceback is initiated for a product like romaine.”

IBM’s Food Trust creates a digital record of transactions or interactions like packaging date, temperature at which an item was shipped and arrival on a shelf.

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