Retail Focus

JULY 28, 2021

The idea eliminates checkout lines. Let’s consider first the effects of Just Walk Out on retail environments: No checkouts equals 8-12% floor space saved. No checkouts affords a more motivated customer-facing team. And Amazon now offers other retailers this same ability. The genius is the technology helps rather than deflects.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Thirteen years after Woolworths introduced self-service checkouts to Australian supermarket shoppers, discount grocer Aldi has bowed to the demand for quick and convenient self-serve transactions at its stores. Aldi’s move into self-service checkouts isn’t the only sign that the retailer is embracing digital transactions.

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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. These operations may struggle to adapt to the unique needs of automated checkout systems and smart stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

still plan to cook more at home. Food retailers must also have the right financial planning in place to withstand the economic turbulence in the long run and make sure they remain agile regardless of wider market trends. Plan and mitigate all scenarios. Transform shopping in-store. Hyper-personalization is also on the rise.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

through a growing roster of consumer products partnerships with national and regional grocers. In the next three months Claire’s plans to add 230 more grocery store locations. Claire’s will add two additional partners this spring, but did not identify the grocers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Starting in the late 1980s with the introduction of self-checkout kiosks and progressing to today’s smart RFID tags and even fully automated storefronts, retail leaders have slowly but surely embraced digital in-store enhancements. These adjustments begin at the earliest stages in the planning process.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

For their part, merchants are drawn to third-party (non-bank) digital wallets for the chance to avoid dreaded “swipe fees” — the fee that retailers pay to card-issuing banks when shoppers use cards, which by the way both Visa and Mastercard are reportedly planning to raise this year. Those businesses will win over time.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2025

According to The Grocer, the new Pudsey format builds on the successful elements seen in the companys Cobham, Surrey, supermarket refit, incorporating features like a closed refrigeration system and multiple digital screens. The system, which is linked to the stores picking systems, ensures that orders comply with cold chain regulations.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 19, 2024

Since revealing in December 2022 its target to open 300 convenience stores by the end of 2026 , the grocer has only launched nine stores. The supermarket chain was planning to open about 30 convenience stores this year, but that target has been scaled back to just 12, The Sunday Times reported.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 9, 2024

In the wake of Asda’s second quarter results, the supermarket has outlined three key areas it plans to focus on to improve performance over its second half. Gleeson explained: “What we’re not doing is changing the mix of manned checkouts, scan and go, and self-checkouts.

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Retail Dive

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Israeli startup plans to expand the deployment of its automated checkout technology, which attaches to standard shopping carts, among grocers in the Americas, Europe and Israel.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Retail Gazette examines how likely this is to happen by comparing the strengths and weaknesses of the rival grocers. That said, sales for the UK’s third largest grocer were still £4bn higher than Aldi’s at £21.9bn for the year, rising 7.1% Where do Asda and Aldi currently stand? Aldi’s record £536.7m year on year.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The grocer losses fel from £4m to £1.5m Related Story Asda fixes till ‘technical glitch’ that delayed store openings 30/09/2024 x 1:56 PM It added that scrapping self-scanning checkouts across stores had proved popular with shoppers. in the year to the end of March, after last posting a pre-tax profit in April 2022.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

16/08/2024 x 8:46 AM The grocer has termed Project Future “Europe’s largest IT transformation project”, as it aims to change 2,500 systems as it moves off the infrastructure of former owner Walmart following its £6.8bn acquisition by the Issa brothers and TDR Capital in 2021. Related Story Is Asda’s huge IT overhaul on track?

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Jamie Jac (@jamie1c) November 28, 2024 Morrisons’ efforts to reduce its debts come in tandem with the grocery chain attempting to win back customers – and a key tenet of Baitihs turnaround plan has involved listening to customers. Despite this, recent Kantar data shows the grocer’s market share slipped to 8.6%

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Wiser

MARCH 11, 2025

Grocery Retailers Common Challenges Grocery retailers can be national chains or smaller, region-specific grocers. By deploying a discreet audit program, they collected real-time photos of checkout counters and impulse sections, revealing that products were often hidden or placed behind competing SKUs.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 16, 2024

The grocer says it is planning to build “world-class systems in a once-in-a-generation IT transformation” to separate itself from its previous Walmart systems. In another big change, Asda plans to outsource some of its technology function to Indian-based supplier Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). What is Asda’s Project Future?

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I Vend

AUGUST 10, 2021

According to industry experts The Grocer magazine, UK supermarkets continue to see high levels of growth. It’s essential that online shopping is user-friendly, with a frictionless checkout process that avoids abandoned carts and lost opportunity. They quote research from NielsenIQ , that shows that sales for February 2021 grew by 10.6%

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Range has since started opening Wilko stores and owner Chris Dawson told Retail Gazette earlier this month that he plans to open 40 more next year. Although White has had some successes, such as the launch of John Lewis value range Anyday, some elements of her plan such as its foray into housing has been met with criticism.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 25, 2024

M&S M&S has been embarking on its store rotation plan to make sure it has “the right stores, in the right place, with the right space” and last year invested £480m into “bigger, better stores” with 20 new shops opened. This includes a £30m investment in its London store estate.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Retail Gazette examines how likely this is to happen by comparing the strengths and weaknesses of the rival grocers. That said, sales for the UK’s third largest grocer were still 4bn higher than Aldi’s at 21.9bn for the year, rising 7.1% Where do Asda and Aldi currently stand? Aldi’s record 536.7m year on year.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The grocer also introduced 4ft-high smoke machines in some of its Express stores last June, which floods the shop floor with dense fog if its motion sensors are activated to prevent people from stealing goods outside of opening hours. The grocer’s security teams also regularly run in-store trials of new controls and technology.

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CJ Retail Solutions

MARCH 25, 2020

As well as this, many grocers have initiated plans to pay its smaller suppliers – those which do business worth £1m or less with the grocer – within two days rather than two weeks. Furthermore, many grocers have initiated a recruitment drive to meet demand. This is also the case for many of the supermarkets.

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365 Retail

JULY 28, 2021

The idea eliminates checkout lines. Let’s consider first the effects of Just Walk Out on retail environments: No checkouts equals 8-12% floor space saved. No checkouts affords a more motivated customer-facing team. And Amazon now offers other retailers this same ability. The genius is the technology helps rather than deflects.

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Indigo 9 Digital

APRIL 11, 2022

Most grocers charge their suppliers fees for putting an item on the shelf. All of these “details” provide one more reason for shopping at Trader Joe’s versus another grocer. Trader Joe’s does not offer online shopping and does not plan on offering it even as the COVID-19 pandemic pushes more and more consumers to shop online.

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Rangeme

AUGUST 3, 2021

Progressive Grocer. Progressive Grocer. Instacart launches 30-minute delivery service for grocers. government announced plans to regulate the use of self-driving vehicles on highways. Hands-free checkout. “[O]nline grocery shows no sign of slowing down, even as consumers return to physical stores …” 3 Petrak, Lynn.

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Rangeme

MAY 19, 2022

AI powers many retail processes, including Amazon’s personalized recommendations, assortment planning, and Just Walk Out technology for cashierless in-store service. Morrisons latest to launch AI-powered checkout-free store system. Southeastern Grocers partnered with DoorDash to offer delivery in as few as 45 minutes.

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Rangeme

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Sephora plans first campaign highlighting Black-owned brands. To boost in-store convenience, Amazon started adding Just Walk Out contactless checkouts to Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh stores, as well as Sainsbury’s stores in the U.K. Source: The Grocer. Ulster Grocer. 9 Repko, Melissa. February 2, 2021. , 10 Salpini, Cara.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

You like on average went up 20% thanks to covid but what I think is happening here is for any other grocer. Their sales went way up but it disproportionately skewed to e-commerce and Amazon when you order something online and it’s delivered from a whole food sale it. [15:12] The leader and poised to continue to be so.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

Self-checkouts are a perfect example of this: you enter a store, run through your shopping list and check out on your own, all while keeping your earbuds intact and never pausing your playlist — basically mirroring the experience of shopping online. Is the investment worth it? Numbers don’t lie.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

Scot: [24:00] And then what is if a brand wants to be on like 10 of the 40 of these how do they do that it’s just they just hire an agency to manage it all are there some tools developed coming along they’ll do. There was a lot of talk at the show there weren’t so many scheduled sessions on AI because if you think about it. [44:04]

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

It wasn’t that long ago I would talk to clients and they’re like hey Jason we’ve got the secret plan to compete with Amazon where we’re gonna buy a warehouse in Kentucky because that can ship to the whole us and we’re going to compete with Amazon and I’m like.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 23, 2024

New technology also offers mobile checkouts for a seamless shopping experience anywhere on the shop floor, alongside self-service checkouts. Sephora, Birmingham Last month Sephora unveiled its latest store in Birmingham as the beauty giant ramps up its expansion plans for the UK, targeting 20 stores across the nation.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [37:26] No exact yeah I mean I think the Grocer’s talk and I hesitate to bring this up because I don’t think I remember I’ll for off the top my head but there’s like four typical types of shopping missions right so there is that like Pantry stocking shop there’s like a weekly shop there’s a.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Southeastern Grocers Inc. As we conclude 2021 and look back at all we have accomplished as a community and company, I am simply amazed,” Southeastern Grocers president and CEO Anthony Hucker said in a statement. Additionally, the grocer partnered with thousands of local organizations throughout the Southeast and donated $1.5

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Rangeme

JULY 12, 2022

The top five grocers in Canada in 2020 in descending order of market share were: Loblaws /Shoppers Drug Mart (27%), Sobeys/Safeway (22%), Metro /Jean Coutu (11%), Costco (9%), and Walmart (8%). Canadian Grocer. In addition, 60% of Gen Zs and Millennials plan to use them more often. Canadian Grocer. Retail Insider.

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VMS

MAY 17, 2021

That was the main change in shopping behavior grocers experienced during the coronavirus pandemic. For many grocers, that translated into higher sales. VMSD checked in with several grocers and design firms specializing in the grocery sector for some likely answers. FULLER BASKETS/FEWER TRIPS. states, reported sales of $132.5

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