Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As an essential retailer, Canadian supermarket giant Loblaw was in a good position to weather the COVID-19 outbreak. To this end, Loblaw partnered with Google Cloud to help scale up its operations — including the formation of a dedicated war room where Loblaw and Google engineers worked side by side to quickly come up with a plan.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2020

DoorDash , best known for restaurant deliveries, is expanding further into the supermarket vertical through partnerships with Meijer , Fresh Thyme and Smart & Final , with plans to add Hy-Vee and Gristedes / D’Agostino “in the coming weeks,” wrote Mike Goldblatt, Head of Grocery and Convenience Partnerships at DoorDash in a blog post.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Based on customer insights and market trends, Swisslog, as an industry leader with successful micro fulfilment centres (MFCs) and e-grocery fulfilment centres (EFCs) operating across the globe, has identified five trends that will shape e-grocery fulfilment this year. E-grocery orders get smaller and more frequent. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new supermarket concept Addie’s , a self-described “drive-up grocer,” has opened its first store in Norwood, Mass., The pickup-only store does not allow in-store shopping; instead, the store serves as an onsite warehouse designed solely for stocking, storing and bagging groceries. fueled by $10.1 of all U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Discount supermarket chain Aldi is continuing its aggressive expansion across the U.S., with plans to add approximately 150 new stores to a fleet that already includes 2,100 locations in 37 states. Aldi also plans to increase its number of locations offering curbside pickup from 1,200 to 1,500 by the end of 2022. by store count.

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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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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

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

JULY 28, 2023

The selection includes wines priced from $10 per bottle to more than $1,000 , with plans to expand the assortment even further. Safeway and Albertsons have launched Vine & Cellar , a curated collection of wines available for sale online with direct shipping to customers in California.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2022

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 million capital raise, which included backing from German VC Cherry Ventures and New York investor FJ Lab.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

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.”. times more with Coles in total, than those that only shop in store”. Globally, we are undergoing great consumer transformation.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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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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. Retail Gazette rounds up the retailers who have begun axing roles this year.

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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. Instead, they want the creativity and storytelling that used to come from interactions with real humans on the shopping floor. Recent research from Khoros bears this out.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 8, 2024

They seemingly gave little thought to the gaping holes in their business plans and the demand such rapid expansion would have on employees and local communities. 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.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 16, 2024

Muji told TheBusinessDesk.com : “This is part of a planned strategic restructuring of the business and Muji’s management expect to conclude a deal shortly. 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.”

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supermarkets are some of the biggest retail businesses in the world, so it’s no surprise they are at the forefront of industry trends and innovation. Brad Banducci, CEO of Australian supermarket giant Woolworths for the past seven years, is a big proponent of using technology to improve operations. But we can see how they like to shop.

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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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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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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. This month alone, four new online supermarkets launched in Australia.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 20, 2021

Indeed, John Roberts, CEO of AO World, recently said that he believed the shift to online shopping was a permanent one. Many people have fallen back in love with their communities and wish to support local shops and brands. . Stores in local high streets will also play an important role to fulfil online orders.

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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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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2021

Premium Korean auto brand Genesis Studio has recently opened at Vicinity’s Melbourne Emporium, the first of its kind in the shopping centre. Meanwhile, online retailer Carexpert opened a physical space at Westfield Warringah Shopping Centre in April. Korean luxury auto brand drives into Melbourne Emporium.

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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

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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365 Retail

AUGUST 12, 2021

The agreement with the supermarket for the site, at Fenny Lock in Milton Keynes, will run for 11 years and will help the department store’s push away from stores and into web sales, which jumped from 40% to 60% of sales during the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2020

Now, retailers are urgently focused on making their shopping experience digital, contactless and pandemic-proof. An often-repeated statement is “all of our digital plans for the next five years will be executed in the next 12 months.” The T11 Supermarket in Beijing added staff for delivery and kept the shelves fully stocked.

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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

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.

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Mike Anthony

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But if retail is changing, then manufacturers and suppliers (as well as retailers) need to adjust their strategies and plans to address each of the trends, to realize the huge opportunities that each offers, and to ensure that the (equally huge) threats they pose are understood and mitigated. What impact does that have on shopping behavior?

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Retail Focus

MAY 24, 2021

The events of the past year have sparked a permanent redrawing of the retail landscape, with online grocery sales soaring 91% year-on-year in a four-week period alone in 2020 and over 17 million Brits planning to stick to online shopping even as lockdown eases. In some cases, this will involve fast-tracking existing digital plans.

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The John Lewis Partnership has revealed plans to recruit more than 7,000 temporary roles across the country this Christmas. The hires will be spread across its supermarkets, department stores and fulfilment centres, including delivery drivers for its online grocery division. Paul Grover/PA).

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Covid pandemic has changed the way consumers shop and interact with brands. Trax Retail helps global brands and retailers harness the power of digitising shelves to enable the best shopping experiences for consumers. Supply chains cannot be changed instantaneously, it needs pre-planning.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2020

The adaptations consumers have made during the pandemic to work, learn, shop and socialize from their homes are projected to last well beyond the time when the coronavirus is just an unpleasant memory. Additionally, 56% of consumers said they’re buying more locally sourced products, and 84% of this group plan to continue doing this.

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Rangeme

MAY 19, 2022

Leading the way in industry influence, Amazon shapes global retail standards and shopping habits. AI powers many retail processes, including Amazon’s personalized recommendations, assortment planning, and Just Walk Out technology for cashierless in-store service. Walmart to build local fulfillment centers at dozens of stores.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 19, 2021

NEW YORK — The battle for the future of the grocery business is under way as supermarket retailers invest in their digital capabilities and Amazon continues to roll out its brick-and-mortar food stores. has partnered with Google with the aim of offering an enhanced shopping experience for its customers. Meanwhile, Albertsons Cos.

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