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New app helps grocers, consumers reduce food waste

Inside Retail

Gander has teamed with Spano’s IGA and County Grocers to offer this sustainable solution in stores in Queensland and Victoria, making the chains the country’s first to use Gander’s solution. The post New app helps grocers, consumers reduce food waste appeared first on Inside Retail.

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How consumers’ forensic focus on prices is driving cross-shopping

Inside Retail

Australia’s leading supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, delivered their third-quarter results to shareholders this week along with new consumer insights. Both retailers reported that the current economic environment has challenged consumers’ discretionary spending and that households have evolved their buying habits to seek out value.

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Instacart Acquires Ecommerce Platform to Empower Local and Independent Grocers

Retail TouchPoints

Instacart has acquired Rosie , an ecommerce platform serving local and independent grocers, wholesalers and retailers, as Instacart seeks to build on its commitment to smaller businesses in addition to expanding its digital offerings. . Rosie’s tools help grocers develop a strong online presence and guide consumers to local stores.

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Drive-Up Grocer Addie’s Opens First Store, Plans to Expand Across U.S.

Retail TouchPoints

The new supermarket concept Addie’s , a self-described “drive-up grocer,” has opened its first store in Norwood, Mass., The pickup-only store does not allow in-store shopping; instead, the store serves as an onsite warehouse designed solely for stocking, storing and bagging groceries. fueled by $10.1 of all U.S. ”

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H-E-B Edges Out Amazon, Walmart as Americans’ Favorite Online Grocer

Retail TouchPoints

H-E-B narrowly defeated second-place Amazon and third-place Amazon Fresh as the top-ranked ecommerce grocer in the U.S., households that had shopped online at least once in the 30 days prior to being surveyed. according to dunnhumby’s inaugural Ecommerce Retailer Preference Index (RPI).

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Rage against the machine: Will more grocers ditch self-checkout?

Retail Gazette

The grocer plans to replace self-service with more employee-manned checkouts and pay points across stores, under its ongoing store renovation programme. Retail Gazette explores why Booths is going against the grain, why shoppers have such a love-hate relationship with self-service, and whether more grocers could scrap them.

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What it means to secure a shop front on Armadales’s coveted High Street

Inside Retail

Armadale’s High Street has become one of the most expensive shopping destinations in Melbourne and the row of retailers is essentially a who’s who of Australian fashion. All the connotations that come with high street shopping carry through to Armadale’s High Street with its pedestrian walkways lined with shops.

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