Grocery

Instacart has reportedly contacted its rivals about purchasing its grocery delivery platform. The company is considering a sale and has discussed a possible deal with Uber, The Information reported Friday (Oct. ...

Grocery shoppers under financial pressure are spending more per purchase, giving retailers an opportunity to help households manage bigger bills with more flexible ways to shop and pay. That’s a central ...

The buy now, pay later (BNPL) wallet is crowded, and grocery purchases show just how much the leading providers already overlap. Between 87% and 96% of users associated with Affirm, Afterpay, ...

Grocery giant Albertsons is planning an extensive overhaul as inflation continues to hinder consumer spending. The company released quarterly earnings Tuesday (Oct. 13) showing a sales dip of 0.8%, and said it was pausing its ...

An unidentified hacking group, or several of them, wrought havoc across hundreds of European supermarkets this week. The root cause of the fiasco wasn’t stolen customer data. It was temperature ...

Amazon spent the week telling shoppers how much they could save. Walmart spent part of it explaining why consumers shouldn’t worry about how their prices are set. The contrast came as ...

Walmart Marketplace sellers can now directly access Walmart-negotiated shipping rates within ShipStation’s intelligent shipping and logistics platform, ShipStation said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. This capability is enabled by ShipStation’s new Ship with Walmart solution, which allows Walmart Marketplace sellers ...

Grocery giant Albertsons has teamed with OpenAI to enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) offerings for shoppers and employees. “Digital shopping, store operations, fulfillment, merchandising and customer experience all depend on systems that teams continually build, ...

Consumers under financial pressure are buying bigger baskets and choosing value-focused merchants, giving retailers an opportunity to help shoppers make each purchase go further. That’s a central finding of “The New ...

Amazon spent decades building a machine designed to make consumers come back constantly. Walmart has had one all along. It’s called grocery. Food and beverages now account for roughly 60% of ...

Costco’s third-party same-day delivery offering is helping draw younger customers to the retailer, CEO Ron Vachris said Thursday (Sept. 24) during the company’s quarterly earnings call. Costco highlighted its expansion of third-party same-day ...

Local commerce platform DoorDash introduced a platform that provides brands with purchase-based signals from consumer orders and audit-based signals from shelf scans, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 23) ...

Maryland will become the first state to put an outright ban on certain personalized grocery prices into effect Oct. 1, moving beyond the disclosure requirements that have defined much of ...

Instacart has unveiled software designed to let grocers and brands digitally view store shelves in real time. The new solutions, announced Monday (Sept. 21), will “map the entire store down to ...

Costco and Uber Technologies expanded their partnership to offer Costco delivery through Uber Eats in 47 states in the United States, up from the previous 17, Uber said in a ...

The AFL-CIO Tech Institute, a think tank established in 2021 by the AFL-CIO labor union, is calling on policymakers to ban the use of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) in grocery ...

A challenging macro environment and other issues affecting the grocery industry led Kroger to lower its 2026 full-year guidance for identical sales without fuel, executives said Friday (Sept. 11) during ...

Instacart has launched an artificial intelligence grocery shopping assistant that can turn a conversation, grocery list or recipe into a ready-to-buy cart, the company said in a Wednesday (Sept. 9) ...

Instacart’s advertising business is already one of the largest in retail media. The company generated more than $1 billion in ads and other revenue in 2025, reaching nearly 100,000 stores ...

It’s early for artificial intelligence shopping tools, but the results are already showing up in bigger orders and more spending, and major retailers said so this earnings season. Walmart’s global eCommerce ...

Retail and supermarket chain Kroger expanded its Fold Bitcoin Gift Card offering after completing a successful seasonal pilot, Fold Holdings said in a Wednesday (Aug. 19) press release. The Fold Bitcoin ...

Walmart’s affordability push is showing up in what shoppers are buying, with transactions and unit volumes rising as the retailer cut prices on everything from ground beef and groceries to ...

Tesco has spent three decades learning what more than 24 million U.K. households buy through its Clubcard loyalty program. Now the grocer is testing what happens when artificial intelligence stops ...

Grocery retailer Albertsons Companies found that the customers who begin using its artificial intelligence-powered online shopping experience make larger purchases almost immediately, Jill Pavlovich, senior vice president of digital shopping ...

Amazon’s latest Alexa demonstration looked almost trivial: photograph a refrigerator, ask what groceries are missing, and let artificial intelligence assemble the shopping list. But for Walmart, it represents a considerably bigger ...

Consumers are getting some inflation relief, at least in terms of the slowdown in price increases. They’re just not necessarily getting it on the bills that determine how much money ...

A grocery retailer can collect an extra dollar by marking up an online order, or it can give up that dollar and try to win more of the household’s grocery ...

Affordability is one of the biggest opportunities to accelerate online grocery adoption, Instacart CEO and Chairperson Chris Rogers said in prepared remarks for a Thursday (Aug. 6) earnings call. A growing number of retailers are meeting the ...

Grocery conglomerate Albertsons says customers at its Safeway stores can now shop using OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company on Wednesday (Aug. 5) introduced a new Safeway plugin that lets shoppers find products, evaluate options within the artificial intelligence ...

Concerns about the price of food and groceries contributed to a decline in consumer confidence in July, according to The Conference Board. The organization’s Consumer Confidence Index decreased by 1.4 points to 90.8 ...

A good offer can lose its value when the shopper never sees it. That problem gets expensive fast when the missed moment happens at checkout. “The Smart Basket Opportunity: How Merchants ...

Surveillance pricing is now banned in New Jersey, and new electronic shelf labels are under a one-year moratorium. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act into law, saying it will ...

Grocery chain Albertsons is predicting slightly weaker sales amid more cautious lower-income consumer spending. The company on Thursday (July 23) released earnings showing the company lowering its guidance for the fiscal year, projecting ...

Watch more: How Stores Became the New Front Door for Everyday Money Movement Retailers measured success by the products that left the store — a tally that’s as old as commerce. ...

Instacart has acquired computer vision company Arpalus and will use that firm’s shelf intelligence technology to improve the inventory accuracy of its own grocery platforms. Arpalus’ technology is purpose-built for grocery retail and will improve the ...

Retailers have always known what customers bought. They have rarely known what customers almost bought. Customers pick up an item and put it back, compare products and reject one, or walk ...

Watch more: The Digital Shift With Forage’s Ofek Lavian Today, 1 in 8 Americans receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Roughly 1 in 2 will qualify at some point in ...

Retailers have treated self-checkout as an operational decision shaped by labor costs, consumer preferences and technology. Rhode Island may be setting a precedent and changing those calculations by making parts ...

Every July, America gathers around the grill, gazes at the sky and asks the same timeless question. Can liberty be itemized? The answer, increasingly, is yes. It comes with hot dogs, surge-priced ...

A bill banning surveillance pricing has been passed by both houses of the New Jersey legislature and sent to the governor’s desk. The “Fair Price Protection Act” was passed Tuesday (June ...

Kroger is set to acquire Pennsylvania-based grocery chain Giant Eagle for $1.65 billion. The deal, announced Wednesday (July 1), expands Kroger’s footprint in the western part of Giant Eagle’s home state as well as in Indiana, ...

Albertsons has launched a new integration with commerce intelligence platform Criteo. The partnership, announced Thursday (June 25) by the grocery giant’s retail media arm Albertsons Media Collective, is designed to bring ...

Pizza has entered its “It’s not you, it’s me” era, which is ridiculous because it is absolutely us. We, the people, have apparently been ordering fewer pies and treating mozzarella like ...

Instacart has begun rolling out an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that puts together a grocery cart based on a conversation, the user’s selection of suggested prompts, or an uploaded photo ...

Kroger’s revenues ticked up slightly last quarter as its shoppers felt increased financial strain. “The customer is under pressure,” Greg Foran, chief executive of America’s largest traditional supermarket chain, said Thursday (June ...

German grocer Aldi is launching a major expansion in the United States amid rising food prices, the Financial Times reported Thursday (June 18). The company is launching a $9 billion U.S. ...

The cutback economy is proving less about consumer retreat than consumer prioritization. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest Generational Pulse Report found that while 66% of consumers in the United States facing cost-of-living pressures ...

DoorDash launched “Ask DoorDash” on Thursday (June 11), a new conversational search interface aimed at reducing the friction of finding meals and groceries. Instead of traditional keyword searches, users can now ...

As shoppers put more of their budgets toward essentials, Amazon and Walmart are starting to play more distinct roles in American retail. That is the broader takeaway from “Consumer Wallet Reset: How ...

Gopuff has added an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered “personal shopping genius” called Go to its instant commerce app. Developed in collaboration with SpaceX-owned xAI, Go combines xAI’s frontier models, Gopuff’s 13 years of instant ...

Gas hit $4.56 a gallon heading into Memorial Day weekend. That was up more than $1.50 from where it was before the Iran war in late February. No surprise then that ...

Inflation in the United States hit 3.8% in April, its highest in nearly three years. The Iran war sent energy costs soaring 18% year over year. Gasoline has jumped more than ...

Consumers under pressure are not retreating from checkout so much as rewriting the rules of how they get there. That is one of the broader signals in “The New Checkout: Crimped ...

Kroger is reportedly considering steep price cuts to take on other grocery giants. Greg Foran, the former Walmart executive who joined the supermarket chain as CEO earlier this year, said in a Bloomberg News interview published ...

A number of states have moved to ban so-called “surveillance pricing” amid pushback from consumers and advocacy groups. That’s according to a report Thursday (May 14) by Money, which notes this pricing practice ...

Albertsons wants to know whether a grape is bad before it ever reaches a store shelf. To find out, the grocer built an artificial intelligence tool that uses computer vision and ...

Instacart has introduced what it calls two major updates to its fulfillment platform. “As grocery retailers scale their ecommerce and fulfillment operations, many are still managing picking, delivery, and labor across disconnected ...

Inflation accelerated again in April, intensifying pressure on consumers who were already struggling to keep pace with rising costs for food, housing and healthcare. The latest Consumer Price Index report from ...

A decade of grocery data sits under Instacart’s platform, and the company is now turning it into an artificial intelligence system that plans meals, builds your basket and predicts what ...

Amazon has kept its Rufus AI shopping assistant largely separate from its main search bar since the tool’s 2024 launch. The company is now leaving the door open to changing ...

Amazon has begun offering same-day delivery of perishable groceries to its business customers. The new service, long available for consumer customers, is being rolled out in 2,300 communities around the U.S. in ...

Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize has expanded its delivery partnership with Uber Eats. The collaboration, announced Monday (May 4), makes nearly 2,000 Ahold stores available on the Uber Eats marketplace. The company’s stores include Food Lion, The GIANT ...

The clearest sign of consumer strain may not be what households are cutting, but how many different ways they are trying to keep up. That is the central takeaway from “Generations Under ...

Instacart says it has acquired Colombia-based grocery technology firm Instaleap. The deal, announced Tuesday (April 14), is designed to promote Instacart’s global expansion while adding to its technological capabilities. “We see a meaningful opportunity to expand ...

Grocery shopping has always started with a question: what’s for dinner? Retailers are trying to make sure it ends with them. Tesco, Albertsons, and Walmart have deployed AI-powered shopping assistants that ...

Imagine buying a high-amp car battery, a crocheted purse and a bag of fresh groceries all in one go without thinking twice about where to shop. That’s the line Amazon ...

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 ...

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, ...

Young consumers in the United States are doing more than ever to stay afloat, but new data shows that effort alone is no longer restoring their sense of control. “Generations Under ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...