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Checkout-free grocery shopping gets worldwide test drive

Inside Retail

Last month, global supermarket brand Aldi opened its first checkout-free supermarket to the public, following an in-house trial, allowing customers in Greenwich, London, to walk in, pick up their groceries, and walk out without going to a till. Aldi also has staff on hand to verify a customer’s age physically if need be.

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With Retailers Thinking Like Media Owners, Media Owners Must Think Like Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

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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Fairway Turns its Markets into ‘Convenience Stores’ with 30-Minute Delivery from Instacart

Retail TouchPoints

Manhattan’s Fairway Market grocery chain has partnered with Instacart to develop a new convenience-focused service called Fairway Now that will offer delivery of last-minute grocery items and household essentials in as fast as 30 minutes. Fairway Market is a trademark of the retailer-owned supermarket cooperative Wakefern Food Corp.

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Coles’ omnichannel focus pays off in first half of FY22

Inside Retail

The figures are cycling periods of massive growth for the supermarket sector, landed well within analysts’ predictions, and showed that Coles is holding on well through the pandemic, despite supply-chain issues. When we look at our e-commerce customers, they’re still shopping in stores.

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Meet Missfresh, the Chinese grocery retailer offering 30-minute delivery

Inside Retail

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 what ways does your business model facilitate 30-minute delivery?

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Aldi Partners with Instacart to Create Virtual C-Store Featuring Popular SKUs

Retail TouchPoints

Powered by Instacart , Aldi will offer nearly 2,000 of its most-shopped items for delivery in as fast as 30 minutes. The Aldi Express service is now available from more than 2,100 Aldi supermarket locations across the U.S. “We

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Cloud Native Value: Why Retailers Should Learn to do More With Less

Retail TouchPoints

If retailers think online shopping in 2021 is about the simple exchange of goods for money, they’re doing it wrong. This can be even more challenging as COVID-19 accelerated the move to online shopping more than any other time in history. Customers don’t just want to buy a product — they want an experience.