September 11, 2020When John Mackey co-founded Whole Foods Market four decades ago, self-checkout hadn’t been invented and the internet was in its infancy.
Fast-forward to March, when COVID-19 seized the U.S. and shoppers ...
September 11, 2020There aren’t a lot of companies that capture their enthusiasm like Weee! The online grocery service, which caters to the Asian-American community, puts feeling into every “e” and exclamation point ...
September 10, 2020This week was loaded with new moves, developments and shifting consumer patterns in the grocery business, with rollouts from Big Tech serving as the major theme. Amazon Go Grocery added ...
September 9, 2020Kroger will announce its earnings on Friday (Sept. 9) at the market’s open, marking the end of an aggressive second quarter in which the supermarket giant finds itself competing beyond ...
September 7, 2020The average American consumer belongs to 18 loyalty programs. And they only use eight of them, leaving $48 billion on the table in points and rewards. The difference between belonging to a loyalty ...
September 4, 2020In some ways, the second quarter was like nothing the world has ever seen, as the pandemic cut through the daily lives of Americans from April through June, and is ...
September 3, 2020As the fall shopping season prepares to settle into place, the race for the customer’s grocery dollars is getting more competitive by the day. Last week’s big headline was Amazon opening ...
September 1, 2020Whole Foods Market is opening a Brooklyn site the company is treating as a store but that will operate more like a satellite warehouse for online orders, USA Today reported ...
September 1, 2020The first phase of retailers’ response to the pandemic was an extremely rapid switch to digital channels by merchants of all kinds.
Nandan Sheth, senior vice president and head of global ...
August 28, 2020Amazon won the big headlines this week in the grocery world with its launch of the first brick-and-mortar Amazon Fresh grocery shopping location. It’s just the latest move in the growing ...
August 27, 2020Amazon has in recent years been expanding its U.S. grocery business, and the eCommerce giant made its next big step forward on Thursday (Aug. 27) by premiering its first new Amazon ...
August 27, 2020With high U.S. unemployment and recent PYMNTS research finding that 60 percent of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, paying for even the basic necessities of daily life might soon prove to ...
August 27, 2020Berlin-based Delivery Hero has acquired all the outstanding shares of InstaShop in a deal estimated at $360 million. “The initial purchase price amounts to approximately $270 million and the size ...
August 27, 2020Ready to do battle with supermarket giants Kroger Co. and Albertsons Cos. Inc. in the $900 billion U.S. grocery industry, Amazon will open a Los Angeles supermarket this week that will feature the ...
August 20, 2020The grocery wars just got a little hotter, with Target rolling out pickup and drive-up service at 1,500 stores across the country.
Target announced Thursday (Aug. 20) its new grocery pickup ...
August 20, 2020Delivery powerhouse DoorDash has entered the grocery business, the company announced on Thursday (Aug. 20).
The service is launching on the West Coast and in the Midwest. San Francisco, Los Angeles, ...
August 19, 2020Morrisons, the British supermarket chain, has reached an agreement with Amazon to get free same-day grocery delivery, the company announced Wednesday (Aug. 19) in a press release.
“Morrisons on Amazon” will ...
August 18, 2020Walmart’s upcoming membership offering will provide inexpensive prices and quick deliveries to shoppers. The rollout of Walmart+, which is forecasted to compete with Amazon Prime, has been highly anticipated, CNBC ...
August 18, 2020Walmart rode another eCommerce blowout and strong performance in its grocery business to a second quarter that exceeded all expectations and showed its continued growth during the pandemic.
Announced on Tuesday ...
August 17, 2020Online grocery and eCommerce will be on the radar when Walmart reports its second quarter earnings on Tuesday (Aug. 18).
Analysts expect a minimal jump in same-store comparative sales and the ...
August 17, 2020As COVID-19 leads more customers to purchase groceries through the web, Stop & Shop owner Ahold Delhaize NV is putting more resources toward online shopping operations. The company owns the ...
August 13, 2020Amazon, Target and Walmart get most of the attention for their eCommerce efforts, but grocery giant Kroger has been quietly implementing a three-year-long digital transformation of its own.
Kroger’s latest maneuver is the ...
August 11, 2020The great digital shift — and the evolution of how we get our food from grocers’ aisles to table — has spurred a number of strategic partnerships aimed at cementing ...
August 11, 2020To integrate a digital marketplace into Kroger Ship, The Kroger Co. has teamed with the software-as-a-service (SaaS) marketplace platform Mirakl. The move will allow Kroger Ship to provide an expanded ...
August 10, 2020Amid rising market volatility, some large organizations have positioned themselves to support their small suppliers by accelerating payment terms. The grocery industry has been among the most active sectors in ...
August 6, 2020Utah has joined a growing number of states that have given the green light to low-income residents to shop for groceries online using their federal food aid benefits.
Citing the need ...
August 5, 2020A vintage Burger King ad once asked, “Where’s the beef?” In Q2, millions replied, “Who cares?” as they drove a near tripling of plant-based Beyond Meat product sales year over year.
For the ...
July 31, 2020If Amazon and Walmart are fighting for the consumer’s whole paycheck, this week’s battle went to Amazon. Decisively, in fact.
By any metrics, the company’s earnings were off the charts, and ...
July 30, 2020Select part-time Instacart workers who are in-store shoppers are having their positions cut due to at least two of the company’s partners — Sprouts and ALDI — choosing to have ...
July 30, 2020The Impossible Burger vegetable-based meat alternative landed in the grocery sections of Walmart stores on Thursday (July 30).
Impossible Burger is available at almost 2,100 Walmart Supercenter and Neighborhood Market locations, ...
July 30, 2020For some companies, the digital shift has been more seismic than subtle. Shipt is one of those companies. Owned by Target, the shopping and delivery service has seen a business ...
July 28, 2020Amazon Inc. is planning to expand Amazon Fresh, its grocery delivery service, to millions of members in the United Kingdom (U.K.) by year’s end, the company announced.
Starting Tuesday (July 28) ...
July 27, 2020Digital commerce has skyrocketed at Albertsons, as the supermarket giant posted a triple-digit increase in online sales for its most recent quarter amid soaring demand for grocery delivery and curbside ...
July 23, 2020To hear Abhi Ramesh tell it, he’s in two businesses. First, he’s trying to fight against the excesses of the U.S. food system, which is one that wastes more than ...
July 21, 2020As it begins a new period of growth, ALDI intends to open over 70 new retail locations by the conclusion of 2020. The value grocery chain also said it intended ...
July 20, 2020Walmart is looking to take advantage of a booming grocery market to restart efforts to sell a stake in its British supermarket arm.
A Walmart spokesman on Monday confirmed to Reuters ...
July 20, 2020Customer loyalty is evolving with the acceleration of Digital 3.0, led by the category that has been most affected by the digital shift: grocery. With competition heating up from Walmart, ...
July 20, 2020Voice technology was already on the rise long before the global pandemic broke out, with a steadily increasing share of consumers using voice assistants like Siri or Alexa to shop, ...
July 17, 2020Is it really necessary to train a personal grocery shopper how to pick a good banana?
It’s a question that Nate D’Anna, serial entrepreneur and founder of personal shopping platform Dumpling, ...
July 16, 2020Instacart has filed a lawsuit against grocery delivery company Cornershop, which was recently acquired by Uber, alleging the company used images from Instacart’s product catalog when it opened in the ...
When John Mackey co-founded Whole Foods Market four decades ago, self-checkout hadn’t been invented and the internet was in its infancy.
Fast-forward to March, when COVID-19 seized the U.S. and shoppers ...
