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Save Mart Partners with Flashfood to Offer Discounted Food and Divert Waste

Retail TouchPoints

The Save Mart Companies , a 194 -store supermarket chain operating in California and western Nevada, has partnered with Flashfood to offer high-quality groceries at up to 50% off and, not incidentally, divert food waste from landfills. SNAP EBT payment capabilities are built in to the Flashfood platform, benefiting the 4.6

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With Retailers Thinking Like Media Owners, Media Owners Must Think Like Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

These experiences could go further through partnerships with supermarkets, where a QR code enables the consumer to fill their shopping basket with all the ingredients for a week’s worth of recipes and buy them with one tap on their mobile device. Lucy Cunningham is Enterprise Sales Director at InfoSum.

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Filipino Specialty Supermarket Seafood City To Launch Online Store

Retail TouchPoints

Seafood City Supermarket , which sells Filipino specialties and general grocery items in 32 stores in the U.S. and Canada, is rolling out its first-ever online store and mobile app for consumers within the delivery or pickup radius of its locations. Veneration, who is in charge of information technology at Seafood City, in a statement.

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Meet Missfresh, the Chinese grocery retailer offering 30-minute delivery

Inside Retail

Speedy delivery is the name of the game for supermarket retailers all over the world right now, as major chains invest in micro fulfilment centres and explore dark stores in an effort to keep up with customers’ rising expectations during the pandemic. In June, the brand went public on the NASDAQ. Missfresh generated RMB 6.1

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Cloud Native Value: Why Retailers Should Learn to do More With Less

Retail TouchPoints

Today, every one in five purchases is made online, largely due to changing consumer habits in the wake of lockdowns and other restrictions. A high level of services unique to each customer, delivered with little or no downtime, is what consumers now expect. From Monolith to Microservices. Go Micro, or go Home.

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Coles’ omnichannel focus pays off in first half of FY22

Inside Retail

The figures are cycling periods of massive growth for the supermarket sector, landed well within analysts’ predictions, and showed that Coles is holding on well through the pandemic, despite supply-chain issues. Moving forward, Coles will operate the front-end platform. Remuneration costs left unresolved.

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Instacart expedites omnichannel retailing

Mass Relators

SAN FRANCISCO — Buoyed by the recent boom in omnichannel retailing, Instacart is redoubling its efforts to cement a central role in the marketplace, extending existing relationships with retail partners, establishing new ones, and expanding the scope of activities to include services that directly touch what goes on inside the store.