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The Future of Shopping: What to Expect in 2032

Retail TouchPoints

AI and robotics will be widespread: By 2032, you should expect pickup only grocers to be open throughout the U.S., In addition, grocers will use robotic MFCs (microfulfillment centers) to pick and pack their goods from the store locations. Apps as a concept will remain, but the next experience will be far more integrated.

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Inside Walmart’s Expanding Last Mile Strategy: Employee Empowerment, Automation and Sustainability

Retail TouchPoints

Some of the retailer’s plans include redesigning back rooms to accommodate pickup, delivery and ship- from-store orders; adjusting staging operations for orders to drop in three-hour increments to maximize space; and sending overflow delivery orders to the crowdsourced Spark Driver network.

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Pandemic presents new differentiation prospects for grocers

Mass Relators

When asked for top reasons to shop online, 64% of consumers cited comfort of shopping from home, and 60% noted free shipping or delivery options. To compete with the growth of internet retailers, brick-and-mortar grocers should embrace omnichannel retailing. One way was to reduce the number of deals they offered.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 309 Instacart IPO Filing

Retail Geek

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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Taking stock of the “new normal” in grocery retail

Mass Relators

When asked for top reasons to shop online, 64% of consumers cited comfort of shopping from home, and 60% noted free shipping or delivery options. To compete with the growth of internet retailers, brick-and-mortar grocers should embrace omnichannel retailing. One way was to reduce the number of deals they offered.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 297 -GroceryShop 2022 and news

Retail Geek

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: [9:59] Yeah the have is there a list of people that have done J W wasn’t one of the convenience store it’s kind of like 7-Eleven is that right.