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Amazon says it has given Alexa+ users new ways to order food from Uber Eats and Grubhub. “Imagine ordering delivery the same way you would with a waiter — changing your ...

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 ...

The delivery app pitch for small and midsize restaurants was simple: more orders, less friction. And delivery platforms first positioned themselves as restaurant partners. They came in with high-tech platforms that ...

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, ...

A bill introduced in the New York City Council would make the city’s minimum wage the highest in the country, though it would still be below what some consider to ...

Quick-service restaurants operate in a tough environment. Margins are tight, labor is scarce, and customer expectations continue to rise. For large brands, technology and digital capabilities increasingly shape how they ...

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 ...

Quick-service restaurants have been among the most aggressive corporate adopters of artificial intelligence (AI), deploying the technology as an operational tool to defend margins in one of the most cost-compressed ...

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 ...

Technology has long shaped how people order meals, but in 2026 it is beginning to govern how restaurants define value. That is the central finding of the PYMNTS Intelligence January 2026 ...

DoorDash used its fourth-quarter earnings call to make a broader point about where it sees the next leg of competition: not just in meal delivery, but in owning the software ...

Fast food chain Steak ’n Shake is crediting cryptocurrency for a boost in sales. “Nine months ago today, Steak n Shake launched its burger-to-Bitcoin transformation when we started accepting bitcoin payments,” the company ...

Uber is reportedly bringing its delivery business to seven new European markets. The expansion, slated for this year, involves Austria, Denmark, Norway, the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania and Finland, Uber head ...

A growing share of retail small businesses are not planning for the next downturn so much as financing their way through the next week, and PYMNTS Intelligence data showed just ...

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 ...

An Illinois ban on card interchange fees for taxes and tips has survived a court challenge. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division on Tuesday (Feb. 10) ...

The Uber Eats app will soon include a new artificial intelligence-powered beta feature that can build a grocery basket from text or images. When using this new Cart Assistant feature, users ...

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 ...

GrubMarket raised $50 million in a Series H funding round to extend the reach of its platform for the American food supply chain industry. The company does business in 70 countries ...

Yum Brands is seeing both its restaurant operators and customers benefit from the Byte by Yum technology platform the company announced in February 2025. The platform is a collection of proprietary ...

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 ...

Amazon increased the number of items it delivered to Prime members in the United States the same or next day by 30% in 2025. The company delivered over 8 billion items ...

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 ...