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. Forward-thinking retailers have always been looking for engaging ways to help their businesses stand out via their fulfilment options.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As it turned out, the solution already was in motion: Loblaw had partnered with Takeoff Technologies and was in the process of rolling out a robotic Micro Fulfillment Center (MFC) when COVID-19 reached Canada. Loblaw, Google and Takeoff collaborated to launch the technology ahead of schedule, helping the grocer keep up with massive demand.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

To keep up with this demand and consumer expectations, grocers will have to invest in the right forward-looking technology to evolve omnichannel offerings to meet customer needs. With that in mind, here is a look at five strategies that can help grocers optimize online integration of their grocery store.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Instacart already powers the ecommerce and fulfillment experience for hundreds of retailers across North America. Now the online grocery marketplace has launched a suite of technologies to help its partners continue their digital transformation with new fulfillment , advertising and insights capabilities.

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Star Miconics

MARCH 8, 2024

Restaurants must fulfill orders placed online through their websites or apps and third-party delivery services in addition to orders at the table, counter, drive-thru, or self-service kiosks. Grocers have repurposed space and reallocated labor to manage online orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

Save A Lot has entered a new partnership with RangeMe to scale the discount grocer’s sourcing efforts for new and innovative products. The deal will help Save A Lot fulfill its mission of providing consumers with products that meet their needs via new product discovery of emerging and established brands.

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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 Gazette

APRIL 23, 2024

Tesco is under scrunity from the UK’s supermarket regulator, which is is closely monitoring its implementation of an “Amazon-style” fulfillment fee for online suppliers. Tesco said it first introduced a charge as its own fulfilment costs had grown as it expanded its online operations and served more customers.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ocado group has unveiled a deal to provide automated fulfillment technology for Canadian healthcare provider McKesson, its first tie-up outside of the grocery industry. Under the deal, the business will provide its warehouse fulfilment technology and AI-powered software applications for the healthcare firm.

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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. Save Mart also will upgrade to Instacart’s Storefront Pro in order to add advertising to its ecommerce storefront.

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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. Physical stores will still exist for shopping, but with virtual, personalized storefronts.

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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. In May 2023 the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union had voted to oppose any mergers. “C&S

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2022

As grocers around the world work furiously to meet consumers’ demand for delivery without breaking the bank, Chinese online grocer Missfresh looks to have a winning model. We’ll have different promotions in the afternoon or late evening period to make sure that we’re managing a good inventory turnover,” explained Chen. “It’s

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Consumers demand grocers and mass merchants in particular provide these last-mile services, and it’s not without challenges, as over 40% of grocery consumers cite delivery and fulfillment services as key attributes while deciding where to shop in the past year. Lindsey Mazza is Global Retail Lead at Capgemini Group.

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Inside Retail

MAY 10, 2021

The best automation solutions will depend to a degree on a company’s selected e-fulfilment strategy, but as with e-commerce automation in general, grocers should seek out solutions that are flexible, data-driven and robotic to ensure they won’t become obsolete as the market changes and can leverage new technologies as they emerge.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

Some of the planned improvements include barcode scanning, more efficient inventory management, easier options for adding product images and real-time support to fix any issues that come up. grocers to offer same-day delivery, including Walgreens , Albertsons Cos. The upgrades are aimed at benefiting retailers as well as customers.

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Talking Retail

JANUARY 7, 2022

Spar has launched a range of own-label vegan wines, the first grocer to do so. The move fulfils a pledge the group made in 2019 to add the wines to its range of own-label products. Adam Georgiou, Spar’s brand manager for own-label alcohol in the UK, said: “More than half a million people took part.

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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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M19 Retail

JULY 15, 2020

Introducing the Next Generation of Digital Commerce for Grocers. Mi9, a pioneer in grocery e-commerce, helped grocers create their first digital storefronts when online grocery was a novelty. Mi9 was determined to significantly improve the technology to support far greater online adoption and started building ThryveAI. About ThryveAI.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

Orders from the websites will be fulfilled through M&S’s established distribution network. The company cut 950 store management and head office jobs in the middle of 2020 as the pandemic forced it to fast-track a restructuring that was already underway pre-COVID.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Instacart has expanded the offerings under its Instacart Platform umbrella, a suite of enterprise-grade technologies designed to help grocers with their digital transformations. Instacart launched Platform in March 2022 as the next step in its broader strategy to become the ecommerce and technology enabler of the grocery industry. “At

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Mass Relators

JUNE 21, 2022

“We are excited to work with Local Express to bring low-cost, customizable delivery capabilities to their independent food and beverage providers,” says Harsit Patel, general manager and vice president of Walmart GoLocal. Local Express is focused on modernizing the e-commerce experience for food and beverage retailers everywhere.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As a result, grocers have to consider the impact of pricing consistency and competitors on loyalty when shifting prices. Lastly, it’s important to note that during this period, consumers are changing how they manage their finances. Use real-time data and make data-driven decisions with a robust war room and rapid change management.

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M19 Retail

JULY 27, 2020

In early July, Mi9 launched a new brand called ThryveAI that provides next-generation digital commerce to grocers. The launch of the ThryveAI brand coincided with the launch of the new re-architected product platform that provides a digital storefront, AI-driven personalization, and order orchestration and fulfillment optimization.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2021

“If both parties began looking at a variety of data sets, but through the same lens, there would be much more strategic alignment and much less of a disconnect visible in inventory management,” noted Melissa Minkow, Retail Industry Lead at CI&T in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2021

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. Many in the online grocery industry still operate fulfillment at a very rudimentary technical level.

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Rangeme

MAY 19, 2022

Walmart added AI to its fulfillment processes to fill online orders faster. Walmart to build local fulfillment centers at dozens of stores. Now more retailers are embracing robots and autonomous vehicles to modernize fulfillment and delivery. Southeastern Grocers partnered with DoorDash to offer delivery in as few as 45 minutes.

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M19 Retail

JANUARY 13, 2021

Google Cloud Platform was the only cloud partner that could cost-effectively scale to the data and processing-intensive workloads of the Mi9 demand management solutions. Thryve Fulfillment: An order orchestration and fulfillment application for grocers to increase efficiency.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Swisslog is already leading the market in Australia with solutions like our micro-fulfilment centre (MFC) for e-commerce fulfilment specialists, Skutopia, which is the first of its kind in Australia to include an automated 24/7 e-commerce solution with click-and-collect availability,” he said.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

CB Insights noted that last mile delivery can account for up to 28% of a good’s total cost, and retailers also need to find drivers, manage liability and deal with rising energy prices, among other issues. Managing customer expectations. “I “These services are expensive to build and scale,” Watson said. The biggest?

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365 Retail

MAY 24, 2023

Retailers and brands needed a solution to automatically capture product information, reduce human error and manage the explosive growth of post WWII baby boomer shoppers. But it was decades in the making, born by the grocery sector’s need to bust long checkout queues. Mark Thomson, Director Retail, EMEA, Zebra Technologies Enter George J.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We believe that brick-and-mortar retailers are the backbone of the future of grocery, as people want to shop from the grocers they know, love and trust.”. We’ll continue to deepen our investment in our suite of enterprise technology services, unlocking new solutions that help power the comprehensive e-commerce platforms for grocers.”.

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M19 Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

ThryveAI was established in 2020 as an Mi9 Retail brand, and has become a leading provider of fulfillment and e-commerce solutions for retailers in the U.S. The focal point of the company’s product roadmap is to enhance its artificial intelligence capabilities to hyper-personalize the shopping experience and further optimize fulfillment.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JUNE 7, 2022

If you are curious about how Tesco is managing to stay on top then consider these five elements of its strategy. That’s one of the reasons why discount grocers like Aldi and Lidl were able to gain share in the United Kingdom over a decade ago after the last recession. That reduces the need to shop at discount grocers.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Competition is also heating up in the convenience sector with grocers like Kroger delivering convenience items to customers in as little as 30 minutes. They could be there for 30 minutes, 45 minutes, up to an hour potentially,” says Norman Hower, vice-president and general manager of the Canadian operations of 7-Eleven. “It

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 12, 2022

One of Uber’s key partnerships in the grocery space is with Tesco, the UK’s largest grocer. Fulfilling grocery orders is believed to be more profitable since Uber doesn’t have to conduct marketing activities to generate a flow of orders, i nstead the grocery retailer provides the supply. New verticals. Baby and kids.

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