Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Price Chopper/Market 32 has expanded its partnership with fresh grocery platform Invafresh , which already helps the 131-store supermarket chain prevent 20 tons of food from being wasted each week. Supermarket retailer Weis Markets also began working with Invafresh in August 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Shoppers in select markets will be able to schedule same-day and next-day delivery for supplies that can easily fit in a car, including tools, fasteners and paint, with coverage expanding to multiple markets nationwide by the end of 2021. Walmart is expanding its GoLocal delivery service with a major new partner: The Home Depot.

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Mass Relators

JULY 10, 2023

SAN ANTONIO — H-E-B recently opened a new e-commerce fulfillment center in Plano, Texas, a project that expands the retailer’s commitment to integrate innovative technologies that drive omnichannel growth and provide a better shopping experience for Texans. H-E-B says its fulfillment centers support rising demand of online shopping.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Woolworths has announced its intention to build a 22,000sqm online fulfilment centre located in Auburn, Sydney, which will facilitate up to 50,000 online orders per week. We’ve seen an extraordinary acceleration in online grocery shopping over the past year,” said Bardwell. “As

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2021

Coles’ Smarter Selling strategy is paying off for the Australian supermarket giant, with approximately $300 million in extra savings in the bank at the end of FY21. Coles’ supermarkets, liquor and express business units reported strong sales, which were up 3.1 I would expect supermarkets to remain subdued moving into FY22.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Chinese on-demand delivery platform Dada Group is beefing up its 415 Intra-City Shopping Festival, a sales event focused on quick delivery offerings taking place April 8-17, 2022. As with many other Chinese shopping festivals, the launch of new products will play a large role in the event.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Currently available in Melbourne and Sydney, Gimme was started by Matt Bartalotta, Christian Charisiou and Lahiru Perera to solve one of the biggest pain points of online shopping: waiting for the order to arrive. Online shopping is convenient, but it often falls down when it comes to delivery times,” Bartalotta told Inside Retail. “It’s

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Physical retail remains an important part of our business, and we’re continuing to invest in growing our grocery stores business , which spans Amazon Fresh , Whole Foods Market , Amazon Go and third-party partnerships.”

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2023

Earlier this year, rapid delivery grocery start-up Milkrun went from competing with Australia’s grocery chains to being absorbed by Australia’s biggest supermarket giant. At the time, founder Dany Milham cited deteriorating economic and capital market conditions as the key reason behind the collapse.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The third store, GIANT Heirloom Market in the Fashion District, is due to open December 16. Designed to serve customers when and how they want to shop, GIANT Direct gives consumers the opportunity to order groceries online for pickup or delivery at giantdirect.com. PHILADELPHIA — As part of GIANT Co.’s

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The supermarket retailer will acquire an 80% stake funded by cash on hand, while Centerbridge will be a minority equity investor with a 20% stake. The deal gives Ahold Delhaize access to a fulfillment center and additional ecommerce capabilities, including same-day and rush delivery in New York City.

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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

MAY 5, 2022

Even before Covid hit, the nature of ‘grocery stores’ or ‘supermarkets’ was evolving. Supermarkets were exploring different product categories and services in-store, culminating in Coles partnering with local cafes while Woolworths partnered with UberEats.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2022

Like many tech start-ups, Send had a sizeable cash burn that was being deployed to grow its market share,” said Kucianski. At the time, founder Rob Adams told SmartCompany the startup planned to open up to 30 grocery fulfillment centres by the end of the year. Send was founded in early 2021 and by August last year, had secured a $3.1

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It found that 67% of consumers believe that the best shopping experiences of the future will incorporate both human and digital channels. Most of them, of course, achieved their initial success through the use of creative advertising and storytelling, often in mass-market print and television.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2022

As the end of the year approaches, retailers and shopping centres in Malaysia are seeing increased foot traffic and sales volumes, as shoppers come back with a vengeance to purchase gifts and other items for Christmas and New Year festivities. Jaya Grocer is a leading mass-premium supermarket chain in Malaysia. The digital revolution.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

The market is demanding it, competitors are one step ahead, and they have to catch up,” Walker told Inside Retail. 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.”.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 8, 2024

Essentially a high street store with no shop front. A mini boarded up warehouse next to your local coffee shop. Dark stores are fulfilment centres only. The market and consumer demand have changed with lightning speed with May 2022 being the crunch point. There is no sense of community or local integration.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These experiences could go further through partnerships with supermarkets, where a QR code enables the consumer to fill their shopping basket with all the ingredients for a week’s worth of recipes and buy them with one tap on their mobile device. Lucy Cunningham is Enterprise Sales Director at InfoSum.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2023

These markets offer a level playing field where digital commerce is everything, most major players are relative unknowns and companies will need to develop new strategies to succeed, according to The Next Billion Consumers: A Fast Growing Opportunity for Digital Commerce report from Accenture.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2022

Last year, supermarket giant Woolworths launched its Everyday Market, an online marketplace hosted within its broader website that allows customers access a variety of products in categories not traditionally held in its supermarkets, such as homewares and clothing, and includes products from Big W, PetCulture, Healthylife, Designer Bums and Joonya.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2021

Woolworths has announced a $2 billion share buyback following the demerger of its drinks business Endeavour Group and a strong year at the supermarket checkouts. Physical supermarket sales increased by 2.0 Retail expert and QUT professor of marketing Gary Mortimer said Woolworths is ahead of rival Coles on a number of fronts this year.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This is a view shared by Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association (SDA) national secretary Gerard Dwyer, who said he was dismayed that another underpayment has been found. Supermarkets were strong, Big W struggled. Woolies’ supermarket sector enjoyed a strong Christmas period, with sales up 3.2

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

While Australia’s uptake of online grocery shopping has been slow compared to other economically developed countries like the UK, the pandemic has accelerated adoption rates in the last 12-18 months, with more and more Australians now leaning on these services. billion market. Market innovation. per cent this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

With spur-of-the-moment “I’ll just run in to grab something” shopping trips becoming less frequent and online ordering on the rise, shoppers are making plans and orienting their schedules based on order delivery timelines to a degree that seemed unthinkable a year ago. Adjust to Return Reluctance. Offer More Order Pickup Flexibility.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The pair said they want to disrupt the nation’s $122 billion a year grocery industry by delivering grocery orders within 15 minutes and doing away with the need for consumers to carry out a weekly shop. Henry said the service marks a huge contrast in a market that offers “some of the slowest delivery times in the world”. “By

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 6, 2024

Last year, data from the Centre for Retail Research revealed that more than 120,000 jobs were lost in the retail sector as thousands of shops shuttered across the nation in retail’s worst year for store closures since 2008. THG January also saw THG reveal plans to axe 160 jobs across its marketing, sales and warehouse teams.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 16, 2024

“For Muji’s colleagues and customers in Europe it is business as usual – all stores and ecommerce will continue to operate as before, and all new and outstanding orders will be fulfilled.” The business shuttered all its 237 branches inside Sainsbury’s supermarkets last June in a move that is thought to have cost around 2,000 jobs.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

During the Covid-19 pandemic, grocers managed an unprecedented level of online orders for fulfilment via delivery and click-and-collect. The challenges during this time were related mostly to a lack of delivery slots and product and labour shortages, which impacted the ability to fulfil orders in a timely manner (or at all). .

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Discount supermarket chain Aldi is continuing its aggressive expansion across the U.S., There’s a moment of surprise when they realize just how much they can save by shopping with us. with plans to add approximately 150 new stores to a fleet that already includes 2,100 locations in 37 states. by store count. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2021

A toy shop that gave the world Barbie, Mr. Potato Head and other wonderful creations. But it turned out that the emporium of toys, games and fun could not in the end withstand the relentless competition and margin hits from the internet and supermarket retailers. Remember Toys ‘R’ Us? and abroad. In 2017, the U.S.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Speedy delivery is the name of the game for supermarket retailers all over the world right now, as major chains invest in micro fulfilment centres and explore dark stores in an effort to keep up with customers’ rising expectations during the pandemic. In June, the brand went public on the NASDAQ. Missfresh generated RMB 6.1

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2021

There’s a lot of COVID effect in those numbers, but the trajectory is clear — consumers want to shop online, for everything. Research from marketing services firm Material , conducted on behalf of Acertus, showed that while only 7% of those surveyed had actually bought a car online, 80% were open to the idea.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

First choice for food Roberts explains that having previously fixed the basics of price in its ‘Food First’ strategy, which he calls “the biggest barrier to shopping at Sainsbury’s” it was now focussed on how it could bring more customers to do more of their shopping at the supermarket.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JUNE 7, 2022

Consumers at that time were reeling from the recession and Aldi and Lidl entered the grocery market in the United Kingdom with low prices and were able to steal share. That means they can securely and reliably shop us for everything at really great value, all the time.” That reduces the need to shop at discount grocers.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 19, 2023

Richard Tompkins, the founder of The Green Shield Stamp Trading Company, was the mastermind of the concept and decided to open the store after he was inspired by the new phenomenon for catalogue shopping that had taken off in the US. It was a precursor to how we shop digitally today. Meaning ‘swift’ in Greek, Argos was born.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

The grocery and supermarket sector has truly led the pack in seamless retail, as the first to normalise self-serve checkouts, and it continues to act as pioneers in the frictionless experience space, with innovations such as Amazon Go’s smart store – no lines, no check out, just grab and go. million square kilometres of ocean by 2030.

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