Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2024

Lucky for me, my local ShopRite just started offering Instacart ’s Caper Carts , so I had the chance to get some work done while also doing my weekly grocery shopping (talk about multi-tasking). Smart shopping carts are [an easy way for] retailers to dip their toes into [autonomous checkout]. by the end of 2024.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2023

As Australians adopt the latest digital payment methods, the future of frictionless, automated transactions will offer a completely new customer experience. Consumers, too, preferred to use contactless payments or to shop online. 7 PwC, Frictionless – the future of shopping, November 2022.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Publix vice president of customer experience Bob Bechtel is retiring from the supermarket retailer after 45 years of service, the company said on Wednesday. Bob has spent his career focusing on customer service,” Publix CEO Kevin Murphy said in a statement. LAKELAND, Fla. His retirement takes effect on March 31.

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Theatro

JANUARY 25, 2023

We timed the study to take place in January 2023, with the most recent holiday shopping season still fresh in shoppers’ minds. The survey found that many Americans believe the quality of the in-store experience has declined since 2019—the last year before the Covid lockdowns that began in March 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More than 150,000 owners of select GE Appliances can now view seasonal recipes on their oven’s and range’s LCD screen and then seamlessly shop for the ingredients from supermarket giant Kroger. Touchscreens on the appliances will showcase a rotating selection of recipes from Kroger and strategic CPG brands including King Arthur Baking.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2021

An exclusively online supermarket is rolling out across metro Sydney and Melbourne this month to capitalise on the demand for quick and convenient grocery delivery. “SEND is redefining the way an entire generation shops for groceries and daily essentials, making it possible to get the things you need delivered in under 15 minutes.

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I Vend

AUGUST 10, 2021

The COVID surge for supermarkets The pandemic hit many retailers hard, with stores shut and high streets deserted. According to industry experts The Grocer magazine, UK supermarkets continue to see high levels of growth. iVend Supermarket iVend helps supermarkets offer uninterrupted service to their customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Stop & Shop has enhanced its in-store googly-eyed Marty robots to alert store associates when items need restocking, as well as detecting, in real time, when items are misplaced. These new functionalities are in addition to Marty’s tasks of spotting potential floor hazards and spills in the 300 supermarkets where the robots operate.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2020

DoorDash , best known for restaurant deliveries, is expanding further into the supermarket vertical through partnerships with Meijer , Fresh Thyme and Smart & Final , with plans to add Hy-Vee and Gristedes / D’Agostino “in the coming weeks,” wrote Mike Goldblatt, Head of Grocery and Convenience Partnerships at DoorDash in a blog post.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2024

Located within Chadstone shopping centre, the largest shopping centre in Australia, the tweaked design comes as Vicinity Group invests in making Chadstone a renowned food destination in addition to being known as the nation’s “fashion capital.” Trial and error For Coles, the ability to learn from the Chadstone store is key.

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A1 Retail

MAY 17, 2023

By Adam Yee, Senior Consultant and retail expert at global tech consulting firm, Slalom The end of March marked a record high for UK supermarket inflation. Although supermarkets are doing their best to keep prices affordable, consumers are still feeling the pinch.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2024

As the driving force behind a new era of hyper-personalisation, efficiency and sustainable retail experiences, its impact on the way we shop cannot be understated. And how will it shape the way we shop? Today’s consumers are craving a truly unique shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Amazon is removing its cashierless Just Walk Out (JWO) technology from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and will not deploy the solution in new locations scheduled to open later this year, according to multiple media reports.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

California-based Vallarta Supermarkets is piloting autonomous robots in five locations in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles and San Bernadino counties to support employees by identifying in-store hazards. The retailer will test inventory management technology in a sixth store.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2022

It’s no secret that in-person shopping is a multi-sensory experience. While most know that it’s important to make a store visually appealing, including proper lighting and designing an interior layout that’s easy to navigate, many often forget the other senses that play a key role in the overall shopping experience — like sound.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The supermarket giant will invest $500 million to lower prices on “day one” following the transaction’s close, and also plans to invest $1.3 When we do this, more customers shop with us and buy more groceries, which allows us to reinvest in even lower prices, a better shopping experience and higher wages.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

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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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

including 200 Whole Foods supermarkets, and have clocked more than 3 million uses to date. When members of the restaurant’s loyalty program hover their palm over the reader, associates can pull up their MyPanera account information, greet the guest by name and provide a customized experience, including palm-based payment.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2023

This can be seen by the adoption of QR codes – the use of which accelerated amid Covid-19 restrictions – self checkout in supermarkets and autonomous mobile robots, which are being utilised by major retailers for (among other things) logistical, supply chain and other inventory management tasks.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2024

supermarket with cashier-free checkout technology powered by computer vision. ALDIgo, using technology from Grabango , tracks which items shoppers put in their carts; customers can then pay with a credit or debit card or the Grabango app at cashierless pay stations or they can use traditional manned lanes.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 2, 2022

That confirms what we already know, the customer experience matters. But what constitutes a great customer experience? When looking at an example of a great customer experience it tends to hit on one of the following elements: 1) it’s helpful, 2) it saves time, 3) it’s friendly, 4) it’s memorable and 5) it fills a need.

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365 Retail

MARCH 6, 2024

Beloved for its ‘midl’ aisle, ironically cool own-brand socks and sliders, and top-notch in-store bakery, Lidl is now officially the UK’s best supermarket after taking the top gong at a glittering awards ceremony in London last night – the first time it has beaten fellow German grocer Aldi. increase in sales, to £9.3

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Since the merger was first announced in October it has faced steady pushback from consumer groups and legal entities, with opponents claiming that combining the two largest supermarket chains in the U.S. supermarkets that compete directly with each other. “The supermarkets that compete directly with each other.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Last month Booths axed its self-service checkouts in all but two of its 28 stores, claiming the move was in response to customer demand. The supermarket insisted the change helped it keep its “warm northern welcome” and that having manned tills was better for shoppers. ” Booths definitely sits in the high end camp. .”

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Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2021

Supermarket Coles will spend $2.5 The business will seek to improve its online shopping, as well as its self-service checkouts, data and automation across its warehouses, in an effort to streamline the experiences and make it even simpler for Australians to buy their groceries. This is a fast growing customer segment for us.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Value supermarket retailer Grocery Outlet will acquire United Grocery Outlet , a 40 -store chain with a similar business model, to gain a presence in the Southeast. Grocery Outlet, based in Emeryville, Calif., operates more than 460 stores in nine Western and Mid-Atlantic states.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2022

Supermarket chain Woolworths has unveiled gteh post-beta iteration of its business-focused online shopping platform, Woolworths at Work. The concept has been live in beta phase since September 2020 with Woolworths taking steps to improve the customer experience progressively ahead of the formal launch this week.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These are the codes through which we view our supermarkets. Like shortcuts to meaning in the brain, they help us make quick decisions about where we head for the weekly shop. The big three supermarkets rely on their unique brand character to build the entire customer journey from store layout to Insta stories and everything in between.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Amazon One was launched in Amazon Go stores in 2020 and early 2021 before expanding to an Amazon Fresh supermarket later that year. The retailer is sharing store-based analytics from Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores with CPG brands to help them improve the customer experience.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 15, 2023

Just a decade ago, high streets and malls were awash with mobile phone shops with a seemingly endless number of places to peruse the latest Blackberry or Samsung Galaxy. That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. As telco retailers look to become more experience-led, is this the end of the phone shop as we know it?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At this week’s ARA Leader’s Forum, MST Marquee’s Craig Woolford signalled that the effects of such high rate rises are likely to be felt in the retail industry for years to come, as customers change their shopping habits to deal with increased costs in every part of their lives. Grocery prices rose 9.2

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The vast majority of retail customers (87.9%) felt the shopping experience improved during the pandemic. This coincided with a move to online services and apps, with many saying they will continue to shop in this way even after the pandemic subsides. With the move to more online shopping the risk of fraud increases.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2023

We are launching Vine & Cellar to give our customers and fellow wine enthusiasts the ability to discover and shop regional and specialty wines from smaller vineyards that are not usually available at national supermarket retailers,” said Mann in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

As a locally owned-and-operated grocer, it’s impactful for Canseco’s to provide our customers with the ability to shop online, so they can access fresh groceries and discover new products for same-day delivery throughout New Orleans.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2024

With advances in AI poised to power the next generation of customer experience, retailers would be wise to increase their focus on personalisation and optimisation to meet consumer expectations. shopping, purchase, shipment, receipt and possible return). With loyalty on the line, every experience should be a positive one.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tesco is trialing scan-free self-checkouts at one of its west London stores in a bid to provide a more “seamless and convenient” shopping experience. Shoppers at the supermarket’s Fulham Reach Express GetGo store can now proceed to the checkout where it will “magically present them with a list of products they have picked up”.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

We no longer, as a general rule, expect supermarkets to be physical-only entities. We need to be able to shop these brands 24/7, and Coles knows the only way they can do that is by investing capital.”. times more with Coles in total, than those that only shop in store”. Globally, we are undergoing great consumer transformation.

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