Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2025

For this reason, there have been major investments in exciting retail activations from some of the biggest grocers in the world, with a particular focus on bringing the online and in-store shopping experiences together in one seamless checkout. grocers are valued at $8.5 boasting 365 locations. Here in the U.S.,

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2025

Deliveroo has launched a new white label solution, named Deliveroo Express, designed for grocers and retailers in the UK and Ireland, enabling them to offer rapid, on-demand delivery through their own online channels. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazettes free daily email newsletter

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

Store Assist is designed to digitize and streamline online order fulfilment workflows by allowing retailers to manage all orders and deliveries in one central location — from in-store pickup to ship-from-store, last -mile delivery orders and even third-party marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

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.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

After gaining valuable insights last year, 2022 will mark the year when virtually every major grocer finalises their e-grocery strategy. As the e-grocery industry matures, there is growing pressure to reduce order fulfilment times, which are increasingly demanded by customers, as they become more familiar with online grocery shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. comparable sales growth and growing market share in grocery during Q4 2021, and much of this success can be attributed to its robust last mile and fulfillment strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2023

In February 2022, Instacart expanded offerings under its Instacart Platform umbrella, adding online and in-store solutions to help grocers and other food retailers capture ad revenue and enabling more seamless end-to-end fulfillment solutions. Instacart Business has no monthly minimum fees or requires additional contracts.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

with plans to add approximately 150 new stores to a fleet that already includes 2,100 locations in 37 states. With the new additions, Aldi is on track to edge out Albertsons as the third-largest grocer in the U.S. Aldi also plans to increase its number of locations offering curbside pickup from 1,200 to 1,500 by the end of 2022.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2021

Micro-fulfilment centres (MFCs) are the next step in creating a harmonious omni-channel supply chain. Ongoing shifts in the retail landscape, driven by e-commerce, along with changing consumer demands and expectations, are creating an increased need for fast, efficient local fulfilment.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The company is working with the startup Fulfil on a new microfulfillment solution that would see an automated warehouse attached to a Whole Foods in Plymouth, Pa., to offer customers items not sold at the organic grocer. (Image courtesy Amazon) Earlier this month, Amazon also announced a different test with a similar goal.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Traditional fulfilment has been evolving for a long time. In the 60s people would call their fish ‘n’ chip shop or grocer ahead of time to arrange their order. Now, in some locations, you can order your favourite grocery items or Boost Juice via an app and have it delivered by drone in 10 minutes. .

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

This real-time visibility allows businesses to optimise stock levels, prevent stockouts and fulfil orders efficiently. French retailer Carrefour had ambitions to grow its e-commerce sales amid digital-native grocers but was struggling with digital assets that were managed separately, which impeded making changes at scale.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Were building our technology for our retailer partners to help them compete with much, much, much larger players and grocers. This also includes functionality such as an API for retailers that allows Instacart Shoppers to signal when inventory is running low or out of stock.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Woodman’s Markets operates 230,000-square-foot stores with approximately 100,000 SKUs each, and like most grocers its inventory was hit hard by shoppers stocking up early in the pandemic. In addition to finding misplaced displays, the robots can detect pricing mistakes and sale price discrepancies.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2023

While not officially a grocer, many Americans, especially those in rural areas, rely on the retailer for everyday essentials, including food (approximately 80% of Dollar General stores serve communities of 20,000 or fewer people). The retailer opened its 19,000th store in January 2023.)

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Kroger and Albertsons will sell 413 stores across 17 states and the District of Columbia, along with eight distribution centers, two offices and five private label brands, to C&S Wholesale Grocers for approximately $1.9 billion in cash.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Chinese online fresh grocer Missfresh has launched special express delivery service and smart vending machines to help feed volunteers, logistics and support staff and security personnel at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Customers can scan a QR code or use facial recognition to collect their purchase and automatically complete payment.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Many industry experts commented on the speed with which retailers — even those that had been slow to embrace online sales, such as grocers — pivoted their operations in the suddenly ecommerce-heavy environment of 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The partners piloted the program in select geographies this fall and are now expanding to offer nationwide delivery from more than 900 of Kroger’s sushi locations and 1,600 floral locations in under one hour. The Kroger Co. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2024

The Save Mart Companies is building on its partnership with Instacart by implementing several in-store solutions in nearly all 200 Save Mart, FoodMaxx and Lucky locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2020

and Canada, is rolling out its first-ever online store and mobile app for consumers within the delivery or pickup radius of its locations. The retailer has tapped Local Express , an e-Commerce platform for independent grocers, as its white-label technology provider.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2022

A great example of this is Grab’s acquisition of Jaya Grocer back in January of this year. Jaya Grocer is a leading mass-premium supermarket chain in Malaysia. The partnership is designed to accelerate the GrabMart component of the Grab superapp in Malaysia. trillion from 2020 to 2030.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Sainsbury’s has proposed plans to cut 1,500 roles under its Next level Sainsbury’s strategy, which the grocer unveiled earlier this month as it looks to save £1bn over the next three years. It is also in talks with staff about proposals to change how and where it moves stock in some locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There are also several discount grocers, such as Food Lion, Lidl and Aldi. Now some of this demand is transitioning to stores, so Lululemon is planning to open dozens of new locations through the end of 2020 , as well as more than 70 seasonal shops, according to CEO Calvin McDonald. Mall Developers Focus on Shaking Up the Brand Mix.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The venture, called Transcend Retail Solutions, is led by the supermarket giant’s strategy director Oliver Vogt and offers both software and hardware to enable global grocers to fulfil online orders directly from their stores, The Sunday Times reports.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 22, 2024

Some avid shoppers even started queueing as early as 3:15am on Wednesday morning to catch a first glimpse of the upmarket grocer’s new look John Barnes store on Finchley Road. The grocer returned to market share growth for the first time in two years last month, according to the latest Kantar figures, and wants to build on this.

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Medallion Retail

APRIL 5, 2025

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The rapid delivery company currently picks from its own dark store network across the majority of locations it covers, according to The Grocer. Food delivery firm Gopuff is picking products from Morrisons stores and sending them straight to its app users.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The store is readying for its comeback (in its original downtown New York City location) with ecommerce as a central piece of the mix. Fellow grocer Giant Foods is taking a different tack, using its marketplace to expand beyond food. Just ask Century 21 , which filed for bankruptcy in 2020.

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A1 Retail

JANUARY 6, 2025

Furthermore,up to 50 storesare expected to open and operate as afranchisethis year (2025) – enablingCo-op to bring its products and the benefits of membership to more communities, and operate in locations where it may not otherwise be able to access.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 25, 2024

Its revamp programme continues in earnest this year, when expects to open nine new food locations and up to four new full-line stores. As part of its plans, M&S opened a 7,200 sq ft fresh-market style food hall in Sidcup on June 19, followed by an 18,000 sq ft location in Friern Barnet in August.

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A1 Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

The partnership is a central part of Deliveroo’s expansion strategy across the UK, currently at 60% of the UK population, as the company aims to build the best proposition to attract new consumers, restaurants, grocers and riders throughout 2021. New locations on Deliveroo will include shops in Cheltenham, Lincoln, Exeter, York and Sheffield.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

For a start, it’s located not where its customers (members) live and work, but where they go to enjoy the outdoors. As transactional retail moves more and more online, with fulfilment centres and deliveries providing the goods, physical retail will become more about experience. Community is in their nature.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 7, 2023

The study found that regional grocers in particular will struggle to compete with Walmart on online grocery sales. It is less reliant on service fees to support the cost of its pickup operations, and it generates more than eight times more net revenue from retail media per online order compared to some regional grocers.

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Indigo 9 Digital

AUGUST 2, 2022

True to form Hema stores also double as fulfillment centres for Hema’s online grocery orders. Stores as fulfillment centres. At Hema locations, when available, customers have the option of paying using facial recognition payment technology. It also allows the retailer to ensure that prices online match in-store when necessary.

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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. Further, these counters aren’t the most efficient for customers trying to get in and out quickly while they wait for an attendant’s attention or for the employee to finish fulfilling the order.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

“Not only do these enhancements accelerate our omnichannel strategy, but they also provide our GIANT Direct and MARTIN’S Direct customers with greater convenience and value, uniquely positioning The GIANT Company as the online grocer of choice.”. The post GIANT Co.

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