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Amazon and Walmart are battling on two of the largest, most habitual spending categories in the U.S. economy: grocery and healthcare. The two largest retailers in the U.S. are rethinking the ...

Amazon is closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores while adding more same-day grocery delivery services. “While we’ve seen encouraging signals in our Amazon-branded physical grocery stores, we haven’t yet created ...

Instacart has expanded its partnership with retailer-owned co-op Allegiance Retail Services. The collaboration involves the introduction of Instacart’s Caper Carts at select Foodtown stores, as well as new omnichannel capabilities designed to unify ...

Consumer spending continues to move fluidly across digital and physical channels, but groceries are emerging as one of the clearest signals of where financial pressure is reshaping consumer behavior. While grocery ...

Royal Bank of Canada and some other banks reportedly launched a loan tied to the takeover of TreeHouse Foods, which supplies Walmart private-label food and beverages, by Investindustrial. The financing package is a seven-year, $1.25 billion term loan tied to ...

Amazon has begun rolling out the latest generation of its smart shopping cart. The newest Dash Cart was introduced in Whole Foods Market stores in three cities last year and will ...

Uber and its associated apps have launched a partnership with grocery chain Kroger. The collaboration adds nearly 2,700 Kroger-owned stores to Uber, Uber Eats and Postmates, letting customers around the country shop and order same-day delivery, ...

Discount grocery chain Aldi plans to open 180-plus American stores before the year’s end. The company announced the latest phase of its ongoing U.S. expansion Monday (Jan. 12), saying it will ...

Amazon reportedly plans to open a big-box store comparable to a Walmart or Target location in a Chicago suburb. The 229,000-square-foot facility would sell groceries, general merchandise and prepared foods, Bloomberg ...

Albertsons Companies is seeing early results of its deeper integration of data and artificial intelligence, and the firm expects these resources to serve as the core of its transformation efforts, ...

Starbucks reportedly plans to open new stores and remodel existing ones in 2026 after closing 400 locations across the United States in September. In a Tuesday (Dec. 30) CNN report about ...

Ocado Group is set to offer its grocery technology to more potential customers after its mutual exclusivity arrangements ended with retailers in most of the markets in which it operates, ...

Instacart is suspending its price testing practice on its grocery delivery platform, according to a Monday (Dec. 22) company blog post. The announcement followed the Dec. 9 publication of an investigation ...

Federal regulators are reportedly seeking information about Instacart’s artificial intelligence (AI) pricing tool. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sent the grocery delivery platform a civil investigative demand asking about its ...

DoorDash and Uber have sued to block a New York City law that requires delivery platforms to ask consumers to tip at checkout, instead of after the delivery, and to ...

Amazon says its same-day perishable grocery delivery service has reached 2,300-plus communities. Now, Amazon is planning additional growth in 2026 as it finds itself on track to deliver at its fastest speeds ...

Food stores and retail establishments in New York are required to accept cash payments for in-person transactions after a bill was signed into law by the state’s governor. Governor Kathy Hochul ...

Instacart has become the first grocery sector company to launch an app on OpenAI’s ChatGPT. This integration, announced Monday (Dec. 8), will also see Instacart offer an embedded shopping and checkout offering within ChatGPT conversations, ...

Tipping is shifting from cash jars to digital channels, transforming how workers are compensated and how employers attract and retain staff. What once required end-of-shift cash distribution is now handled ...

Earnings season is offering one of the clearest pictures yet of a consumer base moving in two directions. Households with stable incomes continue spending, especially on essentials and value-driven purchases. Meanwhile, ...

Food supply chain company GrubMarket has acquired produce industry trading and software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform Procurant. The acquisition will expand GrubMarket’s software portfolio and strengthen its position as an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Food retailer Ahold Delhaize USA has added its Hannaford brand to its proprietary digital and eCommerce platform. With this addition, Ahold Delhaize USA has completed a multi-year rollout of its platform ...

Airbnb is reportedly testing a service that lets guests order groceries from Instacart. The house-sharing company will offer “kitchen stocking” as part of a three-month pilot program starting Jan. 5, Bloomberg ...

The appetite for digital grocery shopping continues to grow. Instacart reported third-quarter 2025 earnings results Monday (Nov. 10) that showed strong gains in orders and transaction volumes, highlighting the durability of ...

The uncertainty surrounding the shutdown has left millions of Americans unsure how they’ll restock their pantries. Food insecurity spikes when government benefits stall, and for millions of households, SNAP dollars ...

Suppose Thanksgiving is America’s annual CFO meeting, one part nostalgia, two parts spreadsheet. In that case, it’s also a perfect mirror for how the digital economy has re-wired the way we ...

McDonald’s reportedly urged restaurant operators to remain focused on value in a drive to reverse declining guest counts. In a memo to operators delivered after the company’s third quarter earnings report, ...

Global Payments’ new point-of-sale software, Genius, has been resonating with merchants since the launch of its configurations for restaurants and retail in the second quarter, executives said Tuesday (Nov. 4) ...

Instacart launched artificial intelligence tools aimed at “grocers of all sizes,” according to a Tuesday (Nov. 4) press release. The grocery technology company announced the debut of Instacart’s AI Solutions, a ...

Uber is expanding on its four-year-old partnership with restaurant technology platform Toast. Starting in the U.S. and Canada, “Toast and Uber will deepen their integration to deliver innovations designed to help ...

Younger consumers are reportedly cutting down on their trips to restaurants due to the challenges they face in the labor market. Executives from fast-casual restaurant chains Chipotle and Shake Shack said ...

The first inflation data since the start of the October government shutdown offered the clearest signal in weeks on how prices continue to shape household behavior. Headline inflation rose 0.3% in ...

Restaurant management system SpotOn has launched a collaboration with Visa. The partnership, announced Wednesday (Oct. 15), integrates Visa Direct into SpotOn’s DayCheck solution, letting restaurants simplify tip payouts. “Independent restaurants are under ...

Inflation is pressuring American grocery shoppers, leading many to cut back and trade down. “It’s perturbing and upsetting,” Mark Bookbinder, a 68-year-old engineer who lives in Cincinnati, told The Wall Street ...

Instacart has added new business features to its eCommerce solutions. These features were already available on the company’s app for Instacart Business customers, and are now being rolled out for Storefront and Storefront Pro ...

American consumers are tightening their belts, but still have an appetite for pizza. Domino’s, the country’s largest quick-service pizza restaurant, released earnings Tuesday (Oct. 14) that showed the company enjoying a ...

Block has launched a partnership with food delivery service Grubhub. This collaboration will integrate Block’s Square point-of-sale (POS) system into restaurants using Grubhub, while letting people ordering from the service pay using Cash App Pay, another ...

The first cold front grazes the map, and suddenly the economy smells like a bakery. Baristas are pulling double shifts. Marketers are testing 1,000 shades of orange. And somewhere in a ...

Electronic shelf labels are reportedly raising concerns among some lawmakers. The lawmakers fear that this technology would make it easier for grocery chains to use dynamic pricing, a strategy in which ...

Amazon is merging two of its private-label brands to attract bargain-hunting grocery shoppers. The company launched Amazon Grocery, a new private-label brand combining its Amazon Fresh and Happy Belly brands, according ...

Labor shortages, high turnover and shifting consumer habits are reshaping the restaurant industry, and payments are at the center of the transformation. What was once a perk—same-day pay, instant tips ...

Upshop, a food-retailer-focused software-as-a-service platform, debuted a “unified” operating system for grocers. Upshop 360 embeds artificial intelligence across the entirety of a store’s operational data to provide grocery retailers with an ...

DoorDash is expanding its partnership with grocery chain Kroger to 2,700 new stores. The updated collaboration kicks off Oct. 1 and will cover deliveries of fresh foods, essential items and Kroger’s ...

Uber Technologies reportedly expects to increase its grocery and retail deliveries, with the annual run rate of that segment of its business reaching $12.5 billion in gross bookings by the ...

Starbucks is eliminating 900 jobs and closing stores as part of its turnaround plan. The coffee chain plans to decrease its store count by 1%, leaving it with 18,300 locations in ...