- November 30, 2023
As Kroger continues to drive double-digit digital growth, the grocery giant is accepting a negative impact on profit margins for the time being, betting on its digital transformation to drive ...
- November 29, 2023
Kitchen United has shut down its in-Kroger omnichannel food halls, begging questions about the future of new in-grocery-store restaurants.
The food service company, which specializes in ghost kitchens and provided Kroger ...
- November 13, 2023
In times of economic uncertainty and persistent inflation, consumers tend to stretch their budgets to the maximum, especially in essential categories like groceries.
To do so without giving up true essentials, ...
- October 19, 2023
With consumers’ grocery budgets continuing to be pressured, Nestlé is seeing the post-vaccine boost finally taper off, years after the initial rollout.
The global food giant shared on a call with ...
- October 13, 2023
As consumers seek out more convenient meal options, Kroger’s new Tempo heat-and-eat meal subscription service sees the opportunity to gain share from restaurants, grocers and meal kits.
In an interview with ...
- October 5, 2023
This week in grocery news, Ahold Delhaize USA grocers adopt new direct ordering apps, Ocado reportedly doubles down on automation, and online discount grocer Martie launches nationwide.
Multinational grocer Ahold Delhaize’s ...
- October 4, 2023
With consumers looking for lower-cost options to replace restaurant delivery and pickup without compromising on speed or convenience, Kroger is expanding its meal solutions business.
The grocery giant’s meals business Home ...
- October 3, 2023
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) may be the payment “lifeline” that keeps consumers from trading down on everyday essentials — and may in fact them help them get the goods ...
- September 28, 2023
With consumers’ economic challenges continuing to limit their spending, many are turning to installment plans just to afford groceries, PYMNTS Intelligence reveals.
By the Numbers
According to the study “Installment Plans Becoming ...
- September 28, 2023
As consumers’ economic challenges persist even with grocery inflation declining, brands and merchants alike are seeing consumers pull back on food and beverage purchasing.
Food giant Nestlé observed in a presentation ...
- September 27, 2023
During seasons of high spending, such as over the holidays, many consumers are forced to cut back on basic needs such as food and beverages, PYMNTS Intelligence revealed.
By the Numbers
For ...
- September 26, 2023
Kroger is reportedly looking to compete with Walmart, getting into general merchandise with a superstore format.
The grocery giant has begun construction on a 124,000-square-foot location in Plano, Texas, dubbed the ...
- September 21, 2023
This week in grocery news, Kroger’s membership program succeeds at boosting delivery orders, Ahold Delhaize goes after omnichannel customers, and Hy-Vee joins other grocers in debuting its own retail media ...
- September 19, 2023
With grocers expanding their advertising businesses to boost their margins, Sam’s Club has announced new tools for brands to measure campaign effectiveness.
The Walmart-owned membership warehouse club chain, which has close ...
- September 19, 2023
Mastercard is predicting a “rebalancing” in consumer spending for the 2023 holiday season.
The company on Tuesday (Sept. 19) announced that its SpendingPulse shows retail sales increasing 3.7% for the period between Nov. ...
- September 19, 2023
With Instacart going public Tuesday (Sept. 19) via initial public offering (IPO), grocers are rethinking their direct delivery businesses.
Some are investing more in their in-house delivery offerings. For instance, Wakefern ...
- September 19, 2023
Three large retailers’ hiring plans for the upcoming holiday season are similar to those they announced last year.
A fourth retailer, Macy’s plans to hire 3,000 fewer workers for seasonal positions ...
- September 15, 2023
Kroger Health, the healthcare division of The Kroger Co., has partnered with Performance Kitchen to offer medically tailored meals (MTMs).
This partnership marks the first time that Kroger Health will be providing evidence-based, registered ...
- September 15, 2023
As grocers look to boost loyalty and drive adoption, card-linked offers can help them reach half of all shoppers.
By the Numbers
For the new report “Leveraging Item-Level Receipt Data: How Card-Linked ...
- September 15, 2023
In an effort to make their brands more indispensable to consumers’ day-to-day food routines, both Kroger and Albertsons have just announced new meal offerings.
The Kroger Company, the nation’s largest pure-play ...
- September 8, 2023
With many low-income consumers struggling with the impacts of the reduction in their benefits, Kroger is seeing its more budget-pressured customers pull back.
The United States’ leading pure-play grocer shared on ...
- September 6, 2023
As macroeconomic challenges continue to rack budget-strapped consumers, a small but meaningful share of grocery shoppers is using buy now, pay later (BNPL) to buy the food they need.
By the ...
- September 3, 2023
Consumers prefer to pick up their restaurant meals, but where they purchase them is no longer as clear-cut.
Kroger has been crowned the nation’s top sushi seller, with consumers purchasing more than 40 ...
- August 22, 2023
Kroger is reportedly now the number one sushi seller in the United States — a circumstance that comes alongside grocers’ ongoing effort to become consumers’ one-stop shop for food of all ...
- August 14, 2023
Amazon may be cutting back on its private-label offerings overall, but it seems that, when it comes to grocery brands, the eCommerce giant may just be getting started.
The company will ...
- August 9, 2023
If you’ve stepped inside a store recently, maybe a Target or Kroger, you might have noticed digital in-store advertising — an upgraded rendition of the traditional grocery flyer or hanging ...
- August 2, 2023
As many name-brand food companies work against inflation, The Kraft Heinz Company is seeing that the only way to protect its margins is to pass inflation onto consumers — even ...
- July 21, 2023
As food inflation continues indefinitely, grocery shoppers continue to seek savings, abandoning previous favorite brands and retailers in favor of the best deals. Amid these shifts, traditional grocers are struggling ...
- July 20, 2023
As United States grocers look to seize on the digital shift, they may need to update their infrastructure to make eCommerce worth its while in the long run, according to ...
- July 14, 2023
As grocers look for the most effective digital coupon strategies, Albertsons is testing dynamic, shoppable ads with Facebook and Instagram.
The grocer’s retail media network, Albertsons Media Collective, announced in a ...
- July 5, 2023
Debit remains among consumers’ preferred payment methods, allowing them to spend only the funds on hand.
But for merchants, rewarding consumers for using debit cards — specifically, merchant-branded cards — may ...
- June 30, 2023
This week in grocery, Kroger looks to boost its margins with its new in-house advertising platform, Dollar Tree pushes past the one-dollar price point with new frozen food options, and ...
- June 25, 2023
Retailers are facing a new breed of scammers using bomb threats to achieve their goals.
As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (June 25), these criminals are targeting chains like Kroger, Walmart and Whole Foods, in ...
- June 22, 2023
Reports that Amazon, among other U.S. tech companies, might be interested in British grocery technology company Ocado Group could mean a dramatic shift in the U.S. eGrocery space — and ...
- June 15, 2023
Kroger is using artificial intelligence (AI) to drive spending among inflation-concerned shoppers, utilizing consumer data to be more effective with its digital couponing efforts.
On a call with analysts Thursday (June ...
- June 12, 2023
Grocers are investing heavily in stepping up their ability to personalize the digital experience with consumer data, and these efforts, PYMNTS research suggests, are paying off.
Grocers, consumer-packaged goods (CPG) brands ...
- June 12, 2023
With the Digital Food & Beverage Conference kicking off Monday (June 12) in La Jolla, California, where industry executives gather to learn, among other subjects, about how to best leverage ...
- June 8, 2023
Online grocery adoption may have a long way to go, but many consumers are ready to up their digital engagement, according to PYMNTS research.
By the Numbers
Research from “Tracking the Digital ...
- June 6, 2023
For all grocers’ efforts, their shoppers continue to favor brick-and-mortar channels by a huge margin, new PYMNTS research finds.
By the Numbers
Research from PYMNTS’ new study “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: ...
- June 2, 2023
Grocery shoppers’ anxieties around food price inflation may be easing somewhat, but they continue to pinch pennies wherever possible.
In an interview with PYMNTS, Barbara Connors, vice president, strategy and acceleration at ...
