Grocery Shopping

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon is considering shuttering its U.K. “Fresh” stores amid rising online grocery demand. The tech giant said Tuesday (Sept. 23) that it had launched a “consultation” with employees about the proposed closure of the ...

Albertsons Cos. has added a travel booking experience powered by Expedia to the mobile app and website of its “for U” loyalty program. The new “for U Travel” offers Albertsons Cos. ...

Households in the United States are struggling to cover their monthly expenses. Rent, groceries, utilities and childcare are demanding a greater share of the paycheck. In response, consumers are making deliberate ...

In the high-stakes contest for grocery dollars in the United States, Walmart’s familiar supercenter aisles are proving more magnetic than the innovations of Amazon’s online grocery empire. While both retail giants ...

Aldi is reportedly making a $2.2 billion investment in its British grocery business. The two-year project comes as the German supermarket chain is enjoying record sales in the U.K., according to ...

Inflation’s pace quickened in August, and in the key category of food — and specifically grocery prices — the pinch on the household budget has been palpable. Data released on Thursday ...

College-focused social app Fizz is reportedly entering the world of grocery delivery. As TechCrunch reported Wednesday (Sept. 3), it’s part of a new partnership with delivery service Gopuff that lets students ...

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The yardstick of retail success is becoming who can best deliver anticipatory and frictionless commerce, not in isolated channels but as orchestrated services. Amazon and Walmart are at the forefront of ...

Instacart has launched a partnership with wholesale grocery distributor group Merchants Distributors (MDI). This collaboration, announced Thursday (Aug. 28), is designed to offer Instacart’s eCommerce solutions to MDI’s network of independent grocers. Those grocers, the companies said ...