Grocery Stores news and trends

DoorDash Extends Kroger Partnership to 2,700 New Stores
Partnerships // September 29, 2025

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 private label “Our Brands” products to millions of customers, DoorDash announced Monday (Sept. 29)....

Albertsons Takes Kroger to Court After Grocery Merger Collapses
Legal & Regulation // December 11, 2024

Albertsons has sued fellow grocery giant Kroger over the failure of their $24.6 billion merger. The company said Wednesday (Dec. 11) that it has filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery, accusing Kroger of breach of contract. The suit came one day after...

Amazon to Close Its 2 Physical Clothing Stores
Retail // November 02, 2023

Amazon is closing its physical clothing stores as it shifts its focus to its online fashion shopping experience and expanding its grocery stores business. The two Amazon Style stores, located in Glendale, California, and Columbus, Ohio, will be closed by Nov. 9, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Nov. 2). Amazon spokesperson Kristen Kish...

Amazon Fresh Goes Stale as New Grocery Options Considered
Retail // April 28, 2023

As Amazon continues its brick-and-mortar grocery efforts, it seems likelier that Amazon Fresh is history. On a call with analysts discussing the eCommerce giant’s first-quarter financial results Thursday (April 27), CEO Andy Jassy built upon other recent intimations that the company’s mass-market brick-and-mortar Amazon Fresh grocery brand may be soon replaced...

Interviews & Exclusives
A Debit-Enabled Fix To In-Store Checkout Abandonment

March 30, 2020
Debit cardholders often choose this payment method because it is more secure than carrying cash — which cannot be recovered if lost — and may safeguard them against spending more than they have, which is not the case with credit cards. Debit networks need to ensure that customers feel safe using the payment method, and […]

Reynolds CEO: Recreating Grocery’s Home Goods Aisle For The Millennial

February 10, 2020
Aluminum foil is not a new product by any stretch of the imagination. Its precursor — tin foil — was used for cooking, starting in the early 1800s. In 1910, the world of...

Do Grocery Stores Need Bitcoin ATMs?

January 25, 2019
There are few familiar places in the regular life of a consumer other than the grocery store, and that familiarity can breed a type of trust, a sense that nothing...

Munchery’s Out, So Who’s In To Travel Food Delivery’s Last Mile?

January 23, 2019
Another one has bitten the dust when it comes to providing the vital last-mile delivery service for online consumers (especially the hungry ones). The news that on-demand delivery startup Munchery...

Quick Reads
Instacart Gives Merchants and Brands New Views of Store Shelves

September 21, 2026
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 individual products on shelves,” letting grocers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands virtually comb through aisles, understand what’s taking place and act in real […]

DoorDash Extends Kroger Partnership to 2,700 New Stores

September 29, 2025
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...

Albertsons Takes Kroger to Court After Grocery Merger Collapses

December 11, 2024
Albertsons has sued fellow grocery giant Kroger over the failure of their $24.6 billion merger. The company said Wednesday (Dec. 11) that it has filed a lawsuit in the Delaware...

Amazon to Close Its 2 Physical Clothing Stores

November 02, 2023
Amazon is closing its physical clothing stores as it shifts its focus to its online fashion shopping experience and expanding its grocery stores business. The two Amazon Style stores, located in Glendale, California,...