Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2025

Much of this language boils down to marketing speech, and often, true industry disruption fails to materialize. A movement is growing among food retailers that is not only disrupting how they go to market but is rewriting shopper expectations altogether. As such, traditional grocers are losing market share.

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Inside Retail

JULY 7, 2024

“We invite customers to explore our offerings and discover the value and variety available at an online grocer like ours,” said an Ebest spokesperson. “At Ebest, we understand the challenges Australian families face in balancing quality and affordability. The free premium brand eggs or 1.5

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

Alliance Retail Group (ARG) — a nonprofit self-negotiating ad group that helps independent grocers band together to remain competitive — has launched a retail media network (RMN) that will be powered by Swiftly.

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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2023

Supermarket chain Coles is taking its products to Malaysia under a partnership with local retailer Jaya Grocer. Under an exclusive agreement, Coles will introduce 200 products to the market, taking Jaya Grocer’s Australian products offerings to more than 1000 across its network of 43 stores and GrabMarts.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Canseco’s Market , Harps Foods and Price Chopper have joined the 600+ retail banners using Instacart Storefront to support their ecommerce sites. The solution features built-in catalog services and automated marketing campaigns as well as flexible fulfillment solutions that allow retailers to choose the model that works best for their stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2025

Dynamic pricing – a strategy that adjusts prices based on demand, competition and other market factors in real time – is becoming an increasingly popular solution. Transparency should be at the heart of any dynamic pricing strategy. While ESLs are common across European grocers, they remain relatively rare in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

DoorDash kicked off its expanded partnership with Wegmans Food Markets by offering on-demand delivery from the supermarket’s Maryland stores, with Wegmans locations in Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey, Delaware and upstate New York available in the coming days and more stores to follow.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For years, grocers have been in the spotlight for their food waste and plastic bags. Recent studies show that 71% of grocers are now prioritizing sustainability, with 83% of grocery leaders specifically targeting waste reduction. Now it’s retailers’ turn to act.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“We see the value Carrot Tags offer as they help Instacart shoppers to be more independent when fulfilling online orders, allowing our associates to focus on store operations and providing excellent customer service,” said Scott Patton, VP at Aldi in a statement. locations in August 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

At the same time, consumer expectations for personalized, omnichannel shopping experiences continue to rise. It also can enhance marketing by correlating visual trends in product images with purchasing behavior. Multimodal AI is capable of analyzing diverse data types in combination and will unlock new insights for retailers.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 4, 2025

Asda’s flagging fortunes have carried further into the new year, with sales at the supermarket falling 5% in the 12 weeks to 23 February. Kantar reported that the market share for the UK’s third largest grocer now sits at 12.6%, down 1.1% during the period, which helped to bump its market share up 0.1

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

During the Covid-19 pandemic, grocers managed an unprecedented level of online orders for fulfilment via delivery and click-and-collect. The challenges during this time were related mostly to a lack of delivery slots and product and labour shortages, which impacted the ability to fulfil orders in a timely manner (or at all). .

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Retail Gazette

MAY 28, 2025

Price wars between the UKs major supermarkets helped boost sales at Tesco and Sainsburys, according to the latest data from Kantar. Sales at Tesco jumped 5.9% in the 12 weeks to 18 May, increasing its market share 0.4 This is almost double that of Sainsburys, whose market share remained flat at 15.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Health-focused online grocer Thrive Market plans to launch a retail media network powered by Instacart ’s Carrot Ads solution. Thrive Market will use Carrot Ads to help connect brands with its more than 1.5 million members through sponsored product and display ads on its own website and app.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In August, the solution was piloted at Aalto University Campus, home to a student village with more than 4,000 residents. I believe that the more options the customers have, the better,” said Aleksi Tapani, owner of K-Market Otaniemi in a statement. Following a test in Paris last year, LMAD recently successfully operated it in Finland.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2025

For this reason, there have been major investments in exciting retail activations from some of the biggest grocers in the world, with a particular focus on bringing the online and in-store shopping experiences together in one seamless checkout. grocers are valued at $8.5 boasting 365 locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2024

However, this void also presents a significant opportunity for grocers. With customers increasingly returning to in-store shopping, grocery stores are now in a prime position to reclaim and expand their share of the alcohol market. They also collect first-party data from each interaction, which is incredibly valuable for grocers.

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Inside Retail

MAY 11, 2025

Lord & Lions success didnt come from rushing to market, however it came from resisting the urge to dilute “Spices should be given this incredible love and attention and why they should be in the grand food halls of the world. At its heart, Lord & Lion is about preservation of culture, quality and flavour.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Misfits Market has announced plans to acquire fellow online grocer Imperfect Foods , both of which aim to tackle the problem of food waste by salvaging aesthetically flawed yet edible produce that would otherwise be discarded. “We food system,” said Abhi Ramesh, CEO and Founder of Misfits Market in a statement. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2025

Now more than ever, grocers must fight for every marginal gain in market share they can capture. Give Shoppers the Data They Need to Succeed Customers need to know grocers can help them live more sustainably, and they need to see it to believe it. Heres how its done.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2020

Xu added that the expansion into grocery deliveries was on its roadmap before the pandemic, but that stay-at-home orders that drove unprecedented adoption of home delivery from restaurants and grocers accelerated those plans.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They also provide an answer to some of the challenges created by the pandemic, as executives from Woodman’s Markets and Badger Technologies discussed during a session titled The Rise Of Robotics In Retail at the 2020 Retail Innovation Conference. The robots also can improve merchandising.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Weis Markets will streamline operations at its 198 stores through a partnership with Invafresh. Interest in fresh food is on the rise, and while this has led to higher sales for grocers it also has increased labor costs. Weis is adopting new technology to help automate certain processes to reduce the workload of its staff.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

RedMart by Lazada, Singapore’s first fully digital grocer, recently released the findings of its latest research into Singaporean grocery shopping and restocking habits. According to Damien Schricke, head of RedMart and grocery at Lazada Singapore, the preference accelerated during the pandemic and has remained since. “Our

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Outfits like GoPuff, Gorillas and 1520 took the grocery market by storm in 2021, offering a limited menu of consumables, delivered to your door in an incredible 30 minutes or less (and commanding multi-billion dollar valuations in the process.) In 2022, grocers will need to become digital-first. Here’s my take: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2024

Rising costs created unprecedented challenges for grocers as dollar stores made their moves into the grocery space. While traditional grocers can’t undercut dollar store prices, they can amplify the benefits that dollar stores notoriously don’t have — quality and convenience, including expanded services and meal options.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2022

Albertson’s will soon join that mix as well, and the company’s Senior Director of Marketplaces Jasmin Krdzalic gave attendees at last week’s Retail Innovation Conference & Expo a sneak peek at what he and his team are building. Krdzalic isn’t intimidated by this history or the challenge ahead; in fact, it’s what excites him. “[In

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Asda has introduced its first automated free sample vending machine at its Pilsworth store in Bury, calling it a first to market innovation that will “revolutionise in-store sampling” Shoppers at the branch can access free samples through the Asda Rewards app, with Mller offering Frijj as the first product.

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Retail Wire

MAY 14, 2025

Let’s take a look at what we know about these new options. chief marketing officer for The Wendy’s Company, said in a statement. Currently, Wendys fans in Columbus, Ohio, and Denver, Colorado, can pick up square patties at their local King Soopers or Kroger, the spokesperson added.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Instacart has expanded the offerings under its Instacart Platform umbrella, a suite of enterprise-grade technologies designed to help grocers with their digital transformations. Through our partnership with Instacart, we’re able to leverage Platform technologies that have helped us seamlessly grow our ecommerce business.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2023

Coles has officially entered Malaysia, where it is poised to offer more than 200 products through an exclusive collaboration with Malaysian supermarket chain Jaya Grocer. The deal will allow Jaya Grocer to offer over 1000 products from Australian brands through its 43 stores and via GrabMart delivery nationwide.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 19, 2024

M&S is expecting to have its “busiest Christmas” at its flagship online distribution centre in Castle Donington. The fashion and food giant estimated that around 6m online orders would be picked and packed at the Midlands site, Retail Week reported. It comes as clothing and home sales at M&S increased 11.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2023

The rise of club stores is likely being driven, at least in part, by record high inflation. Personalized prices, promotions and rewards also became 3X more important at driving overall price perception compared to 2019. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

All too often, this is caused by sluggish internal processes, outdated technology and inaccurate data that stall products from getting to market quickly. Consider, for example, a drugstore chain that has a new OTC drug coming to market in time for allergy season, and the products release is tied to a national advertising campaign.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

Save A Lot has entered a new partnership with RangeMe to scale the discount grocer’s sourcing efforts for new and innovative products. “Save A Lot is a limited assortment, hometown value grocer,” said Tom Burkemper, VP of Direct Store Delivery & Merchandising Services at Save A Lot in a statement.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2025

Related Story Aldi and Lidl launch new stores ahead of Christmas in latest expansion drive 05/12/2024 x 12:08 PM The German discounter – Britain’s sixth biggest supermarket chain, was the fastest growing bricks-and-mortar grocer in the year to end-November, with sales up 6.6% year-on-year, Kantar said last month.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

All those brands will also now have access to in-store advertising on Instacarts AI-powered Caper Carts smart carts, which are currently deployed at retailers including Aldi, Kroger, Wakefern and Schnucks. The expansion, which will begin in April 2025, allows advertisers to reach consumers at key points in the shopper journey.

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