January 11, 2021How much has grocery shopping changed since the pandemic started? There’s plenty of data from the consumer side as they have flocked to digital-first options. Less obvious are the changes ...
January 8, 2021It looks like another bit of consolidation in the wild world of grocery retail as Amazon has officially shut down its Prime Pantry services — rolling the shelf stable goods ...
January 8, 2021Amazon has ended one of its first efforts to sell food online, with the eCommerce retailer closing its Prime Pantry service. Many items available under the Prime Pantry name in ...
January 7, 2021As it reportedly readies for an initial public offering (IPO) led by Goldman Sachs, Instacart named a veteran of the investment bank as its new chief financial officer.
Nick Giovanni will succeed ...
January 7, 2021The new year is here, and the grocery business gets to finally close the book on a difficult and complicated 2020. But while the year may be over, the pandemic ...
January 5, 2021The country’s second largest grocery store chain is eliminating its unionized delivery drivers in California just two months after passage of the Proposition 22 ballot question. Prop 22 allowed major ...
January 1, 2021“The future comes one day at a time,” statesman Dean Acheson, architect of the Cold War’s Truman Doctrine once said.
While the post-war issues of the 1940s and ’50s clearly carried ...
December 31, 2020A PYMNTS staffer recently placing a digital order from New England regional grocery chain Big Y noticed a surprising change to the supermarket’s online options. Customers could order groceries for ...
December 28, 2020Discount supermarket retailer Save A Lot unveiled the sale of 51 retail locations run by the company in the Tampa, Florida market to existing Save A Lot Retail Partner licensee ...
December 24, 2020COVID-19 in many key regards bears an uncanny resemblance to a bad dinner guest.
It showed up uninvited, proceeded to make itself the center of attention by dominating every possible conversation, ...
December 21, 2020Kroger customers can now expediently and simply order gift cards for curbside pickup in addition to their supermarket items at 1,900 of the chain’s locations throughout the nation, according to ...
December 17, 2020Although the digital shift brought on by the pandemic has rapidly reshaped the entire retail industry, its impact on the grocery segment in particular has been especially pronounced.
In fact, according ...
December 15, 2020At long last a Covid-19 vaccine is officially being distributed in the United States. Getting it out, however, will be a long-term, multi-phase process. Mass distribution, if everything goes according ...
December 15, 2020Online grocery shopping isn’t a completely new phenomenon, but the pandemic period has sped up its progress. Grocery has truly turned into a multichannel shopping journey this year, as consumers have migrated to harnessing ...
December 14, 2020All kinds of adjectives have been repeatedly applied to the year we all just lived through together — “unprecedented,” “unending,” “unbelievable,” “unfair,” “unpredictable.
The list of “un” words goes on and ...
December 14, 2020In today’s top retail news, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. has entered into a definitive deal to sell Cost Plus World Market to Kingswood Capital Management, while Authentic Brands is reportedly ...
December 11, 2020While digital grocery shopping isn’t an entirely new phenomenon, it’s undeniable that the pandemic period has accelerated its progress in ways that would have been nearly unimaginable even eight months ...
December 11, 2020At a time of record growth and competition between grocery delivery services, Instacart has announced plans to give holiday bonuses of $50 to $500 to its “shoppers” — the gig ...
December 10, 2020That grocery has spent much of 2020 getting digitized isn’t breaking news as the year is settling into its last few weeks, but this week we did start seeing figures ...
December 9, 2020There’s arguably never been a better time to worry about healthy food. The pandemic has pushed shoppers to seek out new choices and that has led to a spike in ...
December 8, 2020The vaccines are locked and loaded. Now comes the hard part. As various governmental agencies, healthcare organizations and drug companies step up their efforts to get vaccines distributed, it looks ...
December 4, 2020This week, Stripe introduced banking services, we get a glimpse of the EU’s upcoming Digital Services Act and PYMNTS’ data reveals online purchases ruled Black Friday. The Weekender can catch ...
December 4, 2020Would it surprise you to learn that nearly 79 percent of U.S. grocery shoppers still prefer to buy at least some of their groceries in-store? Prepare to be amazed, then, ...
December 4, 2020 The United States is now in what is considered to be the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. And while the number of cases and deaths continues to climb, news ...
December 3, 2020The dishes are cleared, the leftovers are largely eaten and the world of grocery shopping is settling down to normal as Thanksgiving week 2020 passes into memory, (or at least ...
December 3, 2020Online delivery platform Instacart is teaming up with regional Midwest retailer Meijer to provide same-day delivery of groceries.
“Customers rely on Instacart to get the groceries and goods they need from ...
December 3, 2020Grocery giant Kroger Co. had signaled that its third-quarter 2020 report would deliver excellent earnings. And when the company released its Q3 results on Thursday (Dec. 3), it did highlight that ...
December 3, 2020The pandemic has significantly altered the way consumers of all age groups and income levels shop and pay, with many turning to online and mobile channels to reduce health risks. ...
December 1, 2020As consumers spend more time at home, they continue to order groceries online in far larger numbers than they ever did before the pandemic.
In fact, even more consumers have shifted ...
November 23, 2020 Small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) were hit especially hard by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and have spent months experimenting with new sales models as they worked to keep ...
November 20, 2020The cost of the traditional Thanksgiving centerpiece, the turkey, is at its lowest since 2010, as retailers try to push product for another holiday that’s falling victim to the coronavirus ...
November 19, 2020The biggest grocery shopping weekend of the year is upon us, as it will be the last weekend before the Thanksgiving holiday. Though, as PYMNTS’ recent data have recently demonstrated, that may mean ...
November 19, 2020Afresh Technologies has raised $13 million in a Series A extension round to expand its fresh food management technology that helps grocers reduce food waste.
Afresh said the round was sparked ...
November 19, 2020Dutch retailer Ahold Delhaize — owner of grocery behemoths Giant and Stop & Shop — has acquired a majority stake in supermarket delivery startup FreshDirect amid an online shopping surge ...
November 18, 2020As a response to the recent rise in COVID-19 cases across the U.S., Wegmans issued guidelines and safety measures to manage shopping crowds during the holiday season.
The grocery chain has ...
November 17, 2020Chinese eCommerce platform Pinduoduo plans to raise up to $5.6 billion to invest in its one-day delivery service of farm goods across China, among other projects.
The company plans to offer ...
November 15, 2020Retailers around the country are reinstating measures intended to counter the spread of COVID-19, CNBC reported.
At Walmart stores, employees have resumed keeping track of how many shoppers are in stores ...
November 13, 2020Star Indonesian startup Gojek is moving closer to eventual profitability after staunching a tide of ink amid losses on core services like delivery and ride-hailing, according to a new report.
Gojek ...
November 12, 2020Instacart is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering (IPO) led by Goldman Sachs, according to Reuters, which cited people “familiar with the matter.”
The IPO could value the delivery app ...
November 12, 2020It’s been a busy time in the grocery world this week, with digital innovation at the core of the headlines in the industry.
Here are the latest developments in new store ...
How much has grocery shopping changed since the pandemic started? There’s plenty of data from the consumer side as they have flocked to digital-first options. Less obvious are the changes ...
