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The Future of Shopping: What to Expect in 2032

Retail TouchPoints

Ecommerce, along with other digital channels, took center stage as new shopping habits formed and expectations drastically shifted. While we won’t be traveling in flying cars to our favorite stores anytime soon, we’re still on the fast track to a transformed shopping experience.

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‘Fast Delivery is Table Stakes’: Foxtrot CEO on Standing Out in the Crowded Digital C-Store Space

Retail TouchPoints

The boom has led to the launch of multiple competing services, from major grocers like Kroger to established delivery companies like DoorDash to online pure plays like Gopuff. In particular, how does dropping the delivery window from hours to minutes help meet the modern customer’s needs?

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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

Online grocery shopping increased exponentially during the pandemic. Online grocery shopping was already growing during January and February of 2020, up 20% to 30% over the same months in the previous year. Dollar sales were up around 130%, and shopping trips were up 150% or more year over year (YoY) in April and May.

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Aldi vs Lidl: Who will win the battle of the discounters?

Retail Gazette

With the cost-of-living crisis at the forefront of shoppers’ minds, it’s no surprise so shoppers have jumped ship from the traditional big four supermarkets to discounters. Store expansion may have slowed for Aldi last year and it seems to have quietly dropped its long-term goal of having 1,200 stores by 2025.

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Marks & Spencer’s Turnaround Strategy, Why it’s Working

Indigo 9 Digital

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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Jason & Scot Show Episode 276 – Recap of GroceryShop 2021

Retail Geek

Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott chaussures Jason you being the world traveler you are have not let covid slow you down and you are fresh back from a trip to Las Vegas for grocery shop and I have been on pins and needles to hear how that went. Scot: [2:02] Wrinkle will tell us what the buzz was at grocery shop.

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