Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2025

Uber Eats has partnered with six well-established regional grocers to expand delivery offerings in markets across the country, from Big Y and King Kullen in the Northeast to Vallarta Supermarkets in California and Superlo Foods , Lunds & Byerlys and Foxtrot in the Midwest.

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VMS

JUNE 23, 2025

C&S Wholesale Grocers LLC (Keene, N.H.) Together, the combined company will operate almost 60 complementary distribution centers covering the U.S. and will serve close to 10,000 independent retail locations, with collectively more than 200 corporate-run grocery stores. said it plans to acquire SpartanNash Co. for $26.90

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 14, 2025

Gregg joins the business on Monday (20 January) from his current position as chief ecommerce and retail officer at Asda, Retail Week reported. He spent the last eight years at the UKs third biggest grocer, responsible for its retail and online shopping channels.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 6, 2025

On 30 April, fellow grocer Co-op also fell victim to a cyber-attack, with some of the convenience retailer’s back-office systems and call centre services breached. Additionally, on 2 May, it emerged that Harrods had faced a cyber-attack, with the department store said to be engaging specialists to help investigate and fix the issue.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 7, 2025

The executive departed for personal reasons and stepped down from the company last week, The Grocer understands. Hughes is credited with transforming Sainsbury’s own-label and innovation strategy, including an expansion and restructure of its in-house food development teams at its Holborn head office. .”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

million shares of its common stock to be sold by some of its shareholders at an expected price of $14-$16 per share, according to a statement. Southeastern Grocers is not selling any shares in the offering and will not receive any net proceeds from the sale of its common stock by the selling stockholders.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2023

While most supermarkets prioritized developments that facilitated COVID-era shopping behaviors like grocery delivery, curbside pickup or self-checkout, grocery shoppers are now looking for improved in-store experiences. Local grocers also have invested heavily in regional product arrays to differentiate their shopping experience.

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

“We’ve come a long way in our digital journey by launching our app and website powered by Instacart Storefront,” said Alexis Canseco, Manager of Operations at Canseco’s Market in a statement. “As Our partnership with Instacart means that we don’t have to spend additional effort maintaining operations.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Weis Markets will streamline operations at its 198 stores through a partnership with Invafresh. The fresh grocery platform will assist with demand forecasting, in-store production planning, food traceability, recipe management and cut test management across all fresh departments.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2020

Food Lion will acquire 62 BI-LO / Harveys Supermarket stores in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia from Southeastern Grocers. The grocery retailer expects to hire more than 4,650 associates to keep the new locations staffed. We’ve been serving customers in these larger regions for almost 60 years.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

The Afresh Technologies predictive ordering platform will power forecasting, inventory and store operations, providing department managers with easy-to-use ordering tools that leverage real-time insights. Driving sustainability practices across Albertsons Cos.

Inventory Management

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Southeastern Grocers Inc, the parent company of Fresco y Más , Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie , is donating $250,000 to the International Committee of the Red Cross to support Ukraine and its citizens in partnership with the SEG Gives Foundation. At this moment, what is important is the life of people and peace.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

store total to more than 2,400 by the end of 2023 and will span the entire continental U.S., The store growth builds on the 139 locations opened or remodeled in 2022 , which Aldi credited as contributing to the 9.4 million new customers the grocer attracted that year. both new markets for the grocer. in a statement. .

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

Gopuff has partnered with Misfits Market , an online grocer dedicated to reducing food waste that delivers to Gopuff’s microfulfillment centers nearly every day, while Grubhub will work with Mercato , an online marketplace for independent grocery stores with more than 950 retailers across the country. .

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Kroger and Albertsons Companies are reportedly working on plans to sell between 250 and 300 of their combined 4,996 stores in order to alleviate U.S. The move is aimed at easing regulators’ concerns that the deal could lead to grocery price hikes during a time of heavy inflation. Albertsons was then able to buy many of the stores back.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 1, 2022

Grocery store operators are asking brands to justify higher prices before accepting them. “We We want a justification for it, and what we then do is validate,” said Stuart Aitken, chief merchant and marketing officer at Kroger.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 16, 2024

It’s no wonder that food retailers are taking a close look at AI-powered personalization. For example, Loblaw, which operates 2,455 stores in Canada, has already made a foray into AI-powered personalization, according to its division head Lauren Steinberg. So what benefits does AI offer to grocers?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Kroger and Albertsons will sell 413 stores across 17 states and the District of Columbia, along with eight distribution centers, two offices and five private label brands, to C&S Wholesale Grocers for approximately $1.9 billion in cash.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

“We believe that Bringg offers a unique and compelling solution to provide Coles customers with an improved on-demand and consistent home delivery experience,” said James Geddes, General Manager for Online Network and Growth at Coles in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2024

The stores will have shorter operating hours, from 10 a.m. Our goal is simple – providing food and essential household items across a limited range of national brands and no name brand products at our lowest possible price,” said Per Bank, President and CEO of Loblaw Companies Ltd. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

They want to understand safety protocols, special hours for the at-risk community and whether the items they want are in stock before venturing out. To put the risk-averse shopper’s mind at ease, many retailers have had to find ways to handle this influx of inquiries from customers. Tom Litchford is Head of Worldwide Retail at AWS.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2024

“As we look forward in 2024, we are accelerating our multi-price rollout at Dollar Tree and taking decisive action to improve profitability and unlock value at Family Dollar.” Same-store sales during Q4 rose 6.3% at Family Dollar, for an enterprise-wide gain of 3%. for the Dollar Tree segment but fell 1.2%

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Retail Gazette

MAY 16, 2024

The tie-up aims to improve store operations, drive greater efficiency for staff and provide shoppers with more efficient and effective service. Sainsbury’s has signed a new five-year partnership with Microsoft, which will see it use AI and machine learning capabilities to accelerate its Next Level Sainsbury’s strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“This supermarket mega merger comes as American consumers have seen the cost of groceries rise steadily over the past few years,” said Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition at the FTC in a statement. billion , but the FTC has criticized the divestment as inadequate.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

JFK Millennium Partners (JMP) will work with Avolta company retailers Dufry and Hudson to operate duty-free, travel and specialty retail stores in more than 28,000 square feet of space in the new state-of-the-art Terminal 6 at JFK Airport, scheduled to open in early 2026.

Specialty Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2024

The Save Mart Companies is building on its partnership with Instacart by implementing several in-store solutions in nearly all 200 Save Mart, FoodMaxx and Lucky locations. By introducing Caper Carts and FoodStorm, we’re allowing customers to access what they love most about shopping online and bringing those elements into our stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Preparing Internal Operations for Smart Stores The importance of operational preparedness is especially true for grocers implementing emerging technologies such as autonomous checkout, also referred to as seamless checkout. Michael Gabay is Co-founder and CEO at Trigo. It is similar to upgrading your smartphone.

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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.

Marketing

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2024

This new wave of aggression is putting employees, customers and store property at risk. The Changing Landscape of Retail Crime With this shift in crime, store owners and managers are facing new challenges. Before the pandemic, retail crime mostly meant shoplifting — sneaky folks trying to swipe products without getting caught.

Loss Prevention

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Good Food Holdings and Instacart will open the first Instacart Platform-powered Connected Store at a Bristol Farms location in Irvine, Calif. The supermarket will utilize the Connected Stores experience to help shoppers move seamlessly between the retailer’s app, website and in-store experience.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Tesco is launching a new ecommerce initiative to compete with Ocado, aimed at helping international supermarket chains develop their online operations. Tesco’s technology is currently operational in two Foodstuffs stores, operating under the PAK’nSAVE and New World brands, with plans to extend it to 150 locations.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 22, 2023

With retailers facing continued supply chain disruption – from the long shadow of covid-19 to Russia’s war on Ukraine and climate change – shoppers are reporting increased levels of out-of-stock products, according to the latest data from Retail Insight , the leading provider of store operations execution software.

Grocer

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

stores, giving the company more individual points of produce distribution than any other mass retailer or grocer in the country. We have exceeded our goal of having 5,000 total stores with fresh produce by January 2024. Dollar General (DG) now offers fresh produce in more than 5,000 U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

One retailer has recently come under scrutiny for its automated payment technologies across storefronts, leading experts and consumers to question just how intelligent their smart stores are. And a grocer has dealt with mixed reviews from consumers, employers and the media since the 2019 launch of its fleet of robots that roam storefronts.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2024

M&S has named Morrisons retail operations boss Jayne Wall as its new director of central store operations. Wall, who said last month she would be leaving the supermarket after over a decade, will take up her new role at the high-street giant in August.

Store Operations

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Visit a major retail store recently? Chances are you noticed some changes at the checkout line. Self-checkouts have been prevalent in retail stores across America since the early 2000s. With so much focus on digital sales and online shopping, most people think that the days of brick-and-mortar stores are over.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2023

Sustainability has evolved from a buzzword and marketing term to a core element of any successful retailer, and any company that doesn’t take the “S” in its ESG efforts seriously is putting itself at serious risk of falling behind. Most clients are looking at sustainability as a growth driver,” said Vashi.

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