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The WeekenderPandemic’s Digital Shift, Credit Unions, Stimulus Funds Top This Week’s News
It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the...
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CoronavirusFrontline Workers Want More Pandemic Hazard Pay
Essential workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic are asking for more bonus pay although many have indicated that no amount...
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DeliveryUber Eats Moves Into On-Demand Grocery Delivery
Uber Eats is stepping up moves into online grocery deliveries as the coronavirus continues to spread worldwide, stifling rideshare demand and crippling...
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RetailWhy Regional Supermarkets Need To Change Their Strategy
Toilet paper and bleach may be flying off the shelves right now, but regional grocers are fighting to stay alive. As evidenced...
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Loyalty & RewardsSupermarkets Ramp Up Loyalty Programs
It’s a good time for supermarkets to focus on customer retention. Their supply chain is currently threatened, so having the right product...
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Real EstateCustomer Experience Surpasses Brand, Price
This is the year that customer experience surpasses brand and price as the most important factor in retail, according to several studies,...
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RetailBankruptcy Wave Hits Whole Foods Competitors
Big companies. Essential products. Burgeoning delivery options. It would make sense that the supermarket business might be immune from the cross-currents of...
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RetailHow Grocery Retail Will Evolve In 2020
Grocers are upping their digital game, and the trends in play now promise to become even bigger in the new year. Not...
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RetailTesco Launches Amazon-Style Subscription Program
Tesco is taking on the competition by adding a subscription option to its Clubcard loyalty program. Originally launched in 1995, Clubcard helped...
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RidesharingLyft Discounts Trips To Grocery Stores
Grocery stores are undergoing historic transformation thanks to digital technology, transforming from rather staid operations to places that feature the latest retail...
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B2B PaymentsDown Under, Supermarkets Combat Late Payments
In Australia, large supermarket chains are among the firms combatting late payments, and adhering to a supplier payment code. In the U.S., the...
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MPOS TrackerHow mPOS Helps Bag More Groceries
Customers expect unified retail experiences as they shop between in-store and online. Retailers and supermarkets are listening, and extending mobile channels into...
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Today In DataToday In Data: The Smart Shopping Cart Of The Future
Retail startup Caper is reinventing the grocery store experience with a shopping cart that automatically checks out the items shoppers place inside...
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RetailGrocers’ In-Store Innovations For Boosting Consumer Spend
For many consumers, trips to the grocery store are a routine part of their everyday lives. In deciding where to shop, these...
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BitcoinBitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Payments At The Grocery Store; tZERO To Launch Next Week
Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek is acquiring a “substantial” number of shares in Philippine-based blockchain services platform Coins.ph. While the details of the...
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RetailAhold Launches Automated Supermarkets
Grocery group Ahold Delhaize is set to launch automated warehouses to speed up completion of orders and slash delivery times. Reuters reported...
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RetailAlbertsons Turns To AI Tech For Grocery Orders
To assemble baskets of products for delivery orders, Albertsons is teaming up with Takeoff Technologies for a trial partnership. Through the arrangement,...
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DeliveryWalmart, JD.com Invest $500M Into Dada-JD Daojia
Dada-JD Daojia, a grocery and delivery company in China, disclosed Thursday (August 9) that it raised $500 million from Walmart and JD.com...
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B2B PaymentsSuppliers Reel After Tesco, Carrefour Agree To Combine Procurement Powers
Two supermarket conglomerates are teaming up and combining their leverage to get better payment terms from their suppliers. Reports in Reuters on...
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InnovationAhold Delhaize USA Launches Peapod Digital Labs
Ahold Delhaize USA, the supermarket operator, announced news on Tuesday (May 22) that it is creating a new entity dubbed Peapod Digital...
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RetailExperimental Robot In Supermarket Booted From ‘Job’
An experimental run of a robot designed to assist shoppers in a European supermarket was cut short after it frustrated customers, according...
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ResTechKroger’s Secret Ingredient In 2018: Data
Spend smarter, not harder. That’s the approach Kroger is taking as it endeavors to reset its existing supermarket stores to optimize space...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsHy-Vee Kicks Into Hy-Gear With Wahlburgers, OrangeTheory Partnerships
Could the secret to winning the grocery wars lie not in groceries, but in adjacent brands and services? That’s the strategy Hy-Vee...
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RetailAlibaba To Launch Three Hybrid Hema Supermarket Stores
When two modes of shopping really love each other… Wait, no — scratch that. When two modes of shopping hate each other...
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Amazon AcquisitionsUS Lawmaker Calls For Hearings On Amazon’s Whole Foods Bid
Amazon is facing calls from a U.S. lawmaker for Congressional hearings on its $13.7 billion bid for grocery store chain Whole Foods...
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RetailPeapod And Alexa Deliver Greater Grocery Ordering Convenience
Peapod was one of the earliest Internet startups to offer grocery delivery services, so it only makes sense that the company would...
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RetailSoftware Smooths Logistics of eCommerce Grocery Delivery
From Peapod to Instacart and now AmazonFresh, it’s safe to say that the grocery-delivery sector is booming. Many consumers are opting for...
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AmazonAmazon And The Art of (The Grocery) War
Let me tell you a story about the art of the grocery store war, one that Amazon and supermarket Whole Foods just...
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Amazon AcquisitionsIn Stock Market, Amazon Drowns Grocers To Save Whole Foods
Whole Food customers are still deciding whether the news of Amazon’s acquisition of the natural and organic foods giant is a good or...
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Loyalty & RewardsStarbucks Boosts Rewards Program To Include More Products
Starbucks Corp announced that it is expanding its loyalty rewards program at grocery stores to include more products in an effort to...
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Supermarkets Not Scanning Well With Millennials
Despite the National Retail Federation reporting that grocery stores topped the “hot list” of retailers for the year, supermarkets are having a tricky...
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The Hottest Retailers Right Now Are … Supermarkets?
Supermarket chains dominated a list of hottest retailers in 2015, according to information released by the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) STORES magazine. The trend...
