Grocery

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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Last week, Amazon announced a major expansion of its same-day grocery delivery. The company said it would now offer perishable groceries in 1,000 U.S. cities, with plans to more than double that number by year-end, ...

Walmart’s eCommerce momentum continues unabated, as price-conscious customers pivot to digital channels for everyday items, notably grocery. The company’s Thursday (Aug. 21) earnings release indicated that eCommerce sales were 26% higher ...