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Save Mart Partners with Flashfood to Offer Discounted Food and Divert Waste

Retail TouchPoints

The Save Mart Companies , a 194 -store supermarket chain operating in California and western Nevada, has partnered with Flashfood to offer high-quality groceries at up to 50% off and, not incidentally, divert food waste from landfills. SNAP EBT payment capabilities are built in to the Flashfood platform, benefiting the 4.6

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Sainsbury’s and Tesco apologise after glitch disrupts online food deliveries

Retail Gazette

Sainsbury’s CEO Simon Roberts has issued an apology to customers after a software glitch that disrupted contactless payments, leaving thousands without their food orders. In an email sent to customers, the boss said: “I really understand how inconvenient this disruption to your usual service from Sainsbury’s will be this weekend.”

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Filipino Specialty Supermarket Seafood City To Launch Online Store

Retail TouchPoints

Seafood City Supermarket , which sells Filipino specialties and general grocery items in 32 stores in the U.S. Local Express is instrumental in not only creating the best face of Seafood City online, but also optimizing the back-end e-Commerce operations and synchronizing with our POS and other systems,” said Jonas C.

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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. Moving forward, Coles will operate the front-end platform.

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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?