Albertsons Builds AI That Grades Produce Before It Ships

Albertsons wants to know whether a grape is bad before it ever reaches a store shelf. To find out, the grocer built an artificial intelligence tool that uses computer vision and Google ’s Gemini models to grade fresh produce inside its distribution centers, replacing the inspector-by-inspector judgments that have long determined what clears the quality threshold. The tool, called Intelligent Quality Control , launched in select Albertsons distribution centers this month.