Grocery Shopping

Retailers have treated self-checkout as an operational decision shaped by labor costs, consumer preferences and technology. Rhode Island may be setting a precedent and changing those calculations by making parts ...

Every July, America gathers around the grill, gazes at the sky and asks the same timeless question. Can liberty be itemized? The answer, increasingly, is yes. It comes with hot dogs, surge-priced ...

A bill banning surveillance pricing has been passed by both houses of the New Jersey legislature and sent to the governor’s desk. The “Fair Price Protection Act” was passed Tuesday (June ...

Kroger is set to acquire Pennsylvania-based grocery chain Giant Eagle for $1.65 billion. The deal, announced Wednesday (July 1), expands Kroger’s footprint in the western part of Giant Eagle’s home state as well as in Indiana, ...

Albertsons has launched a new integration with commerce intelligence platform Criteo. The partnership, announced Thursday (June 25) by the grocery giant’s retail media arm Albertsons Media Collective, is designed to bring ...

Pizza has entered its “It’s not you, it’s me” era, which is ridiculous because it is absolutely us. We, the people, have apparently been ordering fewer pies and treating mozzarella like ...

Instacart has begun rolling out an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that puts together a grocery cart based on a conversation, the user’s selection of suggested prompts, or an uploaded photo ...

Kroger’s revenues ticked up slightly last quarter as its shoppers felt increased financial strain. “The customer is under pressure,” Greg Foran, chief executive of America’s largest traditional supermarket chain, said Thursday (June ...

German grocer Aldi is launching a major expansion in the United States amid rising food prices, the Financial Times reported Thursday (June 18). The company is launching a $9 billion U.S. ...

The cutback economy is proving less about consumer retreat than consumer prioritization. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest Generational Pulse Report found that while 66% of consumers in the United States facing cost-of-living pressures ...

DoorDash launched “Ask DoorDash” on Thursday (June 11), a new conversational search interface aimed at reducing the friction of finding meals and groceries. Instead of traditional keyword searches, users can now ...

As shoppers put more of their budgets toward essentials, Amazon and Walmart are starting to play more distinct roles in American retail. That is the broader takeaway from “Consumer Wallet Reset: How ...

Gopuff has added an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “personal shopping genius” called Go to its instant commerce app. Developed in collaboration with SpaceX-owned xAI, Go combines xAI’s frontier models, Gopuff’s 13 years of instant ...

Gas hit $4.56 a gallon heading into Memorial Day weekend. That was up more than $1.50 from where it was before the Iran war in late February. No surprise then that ...

Inflation in the United States hit 3.8% in April, its highest in nearly three years. The Iran war sent energy costs soaring 18% year over year. Gasoline has jumped more than ...

Consumers under pressure are not retreating from checkout so much as rewriting the rules of how they get there. That is one of the broader signals in “The New Checkout: Crimped ...

Kroger is reportedly considering steep price cuts to take on other grocery giants. Greg Foran, the former Walmart executive who joined the supermarket chain as CEO earlier this year, said in a Bloomberg News interview published ...

A number of states have moved to ban so-called “surveillance pricing” amid pushback from consumers and advocacy groups. That’s according to a report Thursday (May 14) by Money, which notes this pricing practice ...

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 ...

Instacart has introduced what it calls two major updates to its fulfillment platform. “As grocery retailers scale their ecommerce and fulfillment operations, many are still managing picking, delivery, and labor across disconnected ...

Inflation accelerated again in April, intensifying pressure on consumers who were already struggling to keep pace with rising costs for food, housing and healthcare. The latest Consumer Price Index report from ...

A decade of grocery data sits under Instacart’s platform, and the company is now turning it into an artificial intelligence system that plans meals, builds your basket and predicts what ...

Amazon has kept its Rufus AI shopping assistant largely separate from its main search bar since the tool’s 2024 launch. The company is now leaving the door open to changing ...

Amazon has begun offering same-day delivery of perishable groceries to its business customers. The new service, long available for consumer customers, is being rolled out in 2,300 communities around the U.S. in ...

Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize has expanded its delivery partnership with Uber Eats. The collaboration, announced Monday (May 4), makes nearly 2,000 Ahold stores available on the Uber Eats marketplace. The company’s stores include Food Lion, The GIANT ...

The clearest sign of consumer strain may not be what households are cutting, but how many different ways they are trying to keep up. That is the central takeaway from “Generations Under ...

Instacart says it has acquired Colombia-based grocery technology firm Instaleap. The deal, announced Tuesday (April 14), is designed to promote Instacart’s global expansion while adding to its technological capabilities. “We see a meaningful opportunity to expand ...

Grocery shopping has always started with a question: what’s for dinner? Retailers are trying to make sure it ends with them. Tesco, Albertsons, and Walmart have deployed AI-powered shopping assistants that ...

Imagine buying a high-amp car battery, a crocheted purse and a bag of fresh groceries all in one go without thinking twice about where to shop. That’s the line Amazon ...

Rising diesel fuel costs have reportedly led fresh food sellers to hike their prices. As the New York Times (NYT) reported Tuesday (March 31), the average price of diesel has risen 44% since ...

Dollar General has chosen 35-year grocery industry veteran Jerry Fleeman as its new CEO. Fleeman, who has served as chief executive of supermarket conglomerate Ahold Delhaize’s U.S. operations for three years, ...

Retailers today are operating under intense margin pressure from multiple directions. eCommerce has introduced higher fulfillment and return costs, while supply chain volatility has increased inventory risk. At the same time, ...

Consumer spending cooled slightly in January, although strong growth in digital retail channels suggests that the broader trajectory of household consumption remains intact. Advance estimates released Friday (March 6) by the ...

Kroger’s new CEO Greg Foran is signaling a shift in strategy toward sharper pricing and stronger digital engagement as the grocery giant looks to accelerate sales growth. Reporting its Q4 earnings ...

When it comes to the Amazon-Walmart competition, grocery has become a key battleground. Why? It’s the closest thing U.S. retail has to a weekly subscription. Win the cart, and you ...

Financial stress is no longer just shaping what Americans buy. It is reshaping how they pay. That was the central insight of “Consumer Financial Stress Is Changing the Rules of Shopping ...

Keurig Dr Pepper saw growth across its business segments in the fourth quarter as it advanced its plans to separate into two companies by the end of the year. “We navigated a dynamic operating ...

Ahold Delhaize saw quarterly digital sales surge as more American consumers do their grocery-buying online. The supermarket conglomerate released earnings Wednesday (Feb. 11) showing revenues up 6.1%, driven in part by ...

Grocery giant Kroger named former Walmart executive Greg Foran as its new CEO. Foran took the job Monday (Feb. 9) and succeeds Ron Sargent, who had been acting as the company’s ...

PepsiCo is moving to lower prices on some of its best-known snack brands, citing mounting consumer affordability concerns as households head into the NFL’s Super Bowl week. The food and beverage ...