Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2024

The California-based grocer will roll out Caper Carts, Instacart’s AI-powered smart carts, and FoodStorm, an order management system designed to power the retailer’s food service and catering experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Get ready, get excited, retailers and customers alike, the 2D barcode, a compact square label with splotches and spaces that encode up to 350X more data than a traditional UPC (4,000 characters) will have a significant impact on managing the business and delivering better customer experiences. Who doesn’t want that?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2022

. “By offering customer-favorite sushi options and premium floral bouquets through third-party marketplaces, we are continuing to evolve and meet customers where and how they are shopping,” said Stuart Aitken, SVP and Chief Merchant and Marketing Officer at Kroger Co. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

The last mile has become a more crucial part of the entire customer experience, particularly the delivery portion. By 2027, the global last mile delivery market is expected to reach more than $200 billion , nearly double what it was in 2020. What brand and customer service risks that do we need to consider?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2020

The retailer has tapped Local Express , an e-Commerce platform for independent grocers, as its white-label technology provider. Seafood City Supermarket , which sells Filipino specialties and general grocery items in 32 stores in the U.S.

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Rangeme

MAY 19, 2022

Now retailers are doubling down on AI for faster processes that make the customer experience more convenient. Walmart added AI to its fulfillment processes to fill online orders faster. Walmart to build local fulfillment centers at dozens of stores. Southeastern Grocers links up with DoorDash on 45-minute delivery.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2021

What has emerged as a genuine concern, however, are the incontrovertible shortcomings in customer experience. Online grocery’s previously lethargic rate of adoption meant that grocers lagged other retail sectors in multichannel merchandising systems, customer data management and fulfillment technology.

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Frank Mayer

JUNE 17, 2021

Now, as the dust settles on the prior year’s turbulence, grocers are poised to build on their recent experiences and strategize for long-term growth. With disruptors like e-commerce options, delivery services, and labor shortages, investing in the consumer experience is an undeniable strategy to secure a competitive edge in the market.

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M19 Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

In 2020, Neil led the launch of ThryveAI to help retailers deliver a seamless, unified shopping experience across their digital and physical storefronts. ThryveAI has grown into a market-share leader in the booming ecommerce market and is seeing significant growth in the U.S. and abroad. “On About The Software Report.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There are also several discount grocers, such as Food Lion, Lidl and Aldi. So if both of those things turn out to happen, then the pandemic could actually increase the longer-term market share opportunity for off-price.”. These types of retailers have generally experienced strong sales throughout the pandemic.”.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Marks & Spencer has said it started out with third party brands flowing through its distribution network but it is planning to give sellers the flexibility to use a drop ship model where the brand holds onto its inventory and fulfills the order itself. “M&S’s This is especially the case with Jaeger,” said an industry veteran.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

An unintended, and likely under-planned-for, consequence for both retailers and their customers, however, is the erosion of the customer experience. As retailers and grocers continue to prioritize the operational and transactional elements of pickup and delivery, the importance of these touchpoints will continue to grow.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 4, 2023

Um there’s some controversy over who’s actually bigger but we’ll leave that for another show if the bottom line is if the two biggest retailers in the market are both outperforming the industry average. That’s a bad sign for the rest of the retailers. Scot: [6:54] Someone’s losing share.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In other news: Walmart is accelerating it’s automated picking for store fulfillment. Where we were going in and then once the markets closed today they made their announcement and Q4 net sales growth was drumroll 44 percent so. Uber has purchased Drizly for $1.1B. We spoke with the VP of Partnerships at Drizly on Episode 163.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 16, 2021

Digital restaurant marketplaces (Door Dash, Uber Eats) Digital grocery marketplaces (Instacart) Ghost Kitchens (food industry version of private label) Delivery vs Pickup On Prem vs Off Prem Consumption Emerging digital grocery top-off market (GoPuff, Instacart, DoorDash) Amazon evolving grocery strategy (Amazon Fresh, Just Walk Out, Delivery).

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Jeff Bezos steps down Amazon offers it’s multi-channel fulfillment (MCF) to Big Commerce customers. Jason: [4:20] Yeah no I think your speculation is probably spot-on you know groceries a tough business to make money like in way instacart isn’t really a grocer that are. Amazon News. Other News.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2021

We have continuously worked with all our tenants to come up with robust marketing strategies to encourage customer traffic and spending, including creating promotional areas at high traffic areas, assisting with shopping and dining vouchers, and continuing with our shopper rewards and redemption programs.

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Indigo 9 Digital

AUGUST 2, 2022

It is an initiative aimed at connecting online and offline retail and digitizing stores in order to provide a better customer experience. True to form Hema stores also double as fulfillment centres for Hema’s online grocery orders. Stores as fulfillment centres. Do you like this content? Automated service using robots.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

The solution provider noted that grocers using its solution typically see a 3% sales increase, significant improvement in inventory turns and up to 25% less food waste — a result that would support the supermarket retailer’s sustainability goals. “AI

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02] So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02] Scot: [14:26] Right.

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Retail Geek

JULY 7, 2022

Offer Prime benefits and have your orders fulfilled from fulfillment by Amazon. [15:59] So they have this technology called Scott and what it does is it makes three different projections for basically the orders for looking out into the future it does a high medium and low and during the pandemic. [5:12] 15:46] Accept Amazon pay and.

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Mass Relators

JULY 27, 2021

“Grocers and product suppliers should lay the groundwork for the future together, and the companies that invest in a people-centric approach by prioritizing the work, workforce and workplace will be better positioned to adapt to shifting consumer preferences and long-term growth.”

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

Jason: [6:11] Yeah so short trip to Brazil for those that aren’t familiar with that market it’s pretty interesting it’s the largest market in Latin America people talk about latam all the time but the. 9:53] Brazil is.

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