Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2023

Alibaba has opened 12 new Freshippo supermarkets in eight Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Freshippo also has established strategic partnerships with 13 global retail groups, international brands, global associations and consulting companies in Shanghai and announced plans to set up eight purchasing centers globally.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

And it doesn’t plan to stop there. On Monday, the platform announced a partnership with supermarket giant Woolworths , which will see over 1200 products from its Metro stores in Sydney and Melbourne available to order on the Uber Eats app from next week. We’re in discussions with a number of big retailers across verticals.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2021

and the company plans to have nationwide coverage by the end of this year. Uber has found partners in regional supermarkets like Southeastern Grocers and recently started a relationship with Albertsons Companies that will offer delivery from 1,200 stores under more than half a dozen banners.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2023

parent company of the Loblaws supermarket chain, will invest $2 billion Canadian (approximately $1.49 Bank, who will bring 30 years of experience in retail operations and supply chain, is the outgoing CEO of Salling Group A/S , a 1,700 -store multi-banner supermarket chain based in Denmark. Loblaw Companies Ltd.,

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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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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

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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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

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new supermarket concept Addie’s , a self-described “drive-up grocer,” has opened its first store in Norwood, Mass., fueled by $10.1 million in seed funding it recently received from Rose Park Advisors. “The traditional business model of in-store shopping makes serving convenience-focused shoppers highly challenging.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2022

Instacart has moved closer to a planned IPO after confidentially submitting a draft registration statement with the SEC on May 11, 2022, although specific details were not revealed. Among the offerings is its upgraded fulfillment solution, Carrot Warehouses.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has done little to slow Aldi ’s growth: the low-price supermarket chain has opened its 2,000 U.S. store, and it plans to open 70 more brick-and-mortar locations in 2020. In May 2020, Aldi announced its plans to expand curbside pickup to 600 stores in 35 states by the end of July. “As in a statement.

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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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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Sainsbury’s has proposed plans to cut 1,500 roles under its Next level Sainsbury’s strategy, which the grocer unveiled earlier this month as it looks to save £1bn over the next three years. It added that it had plans to open more sites in other parts of the country this year, creating more sites and jobs overall.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 31, 2024

It hasn’t gone as smoothly as we planned and some customers are experiencing delays receiving their online orders. Sainsbury’s said a technical issue had affected its ability to fulfil the majority majority of online deliveries earlier this month as customers slammed its “bad service”. “We know this isn’t good enough.

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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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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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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2021

Kroger outlined plans to deliver total shareholder returns of 8% to 10% in 2021 at its virtual Investor Day, held March 31, 2021. Leadership pointed to two core areas for driving that growth: the fresh food segment and digital, which was described as “a growth engine” for the supermarket retailer, one of the nation’s biggest. .

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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. Ocado will facilitate only automated fulfilment through the business’ stores and fulfilment centres, plus last-mile delivery.

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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

JUNE 20, 2021

We no longer, as a general rule, expect supermarkets to be physical-only entities. And in the final phase, Coles plans to differentiate the offer “through tech enablement and end-to-end customer experience”. Hassing said the retailer is on track with the development of its customer fulfilment centres (CFCs) in Melbourne and Sydney.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 6, 2024

The head office restructuring follows not just the store closure plans but the sale of The Body Shop’s loss-making businesses in much of mainland Europe and parts of Asia back in January. Sainsbury’s Last month Sainsbury’s revealed plans to cut 1,500 roles as it looks to save £1bn over the next three years.

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

Walmart on Tuesday said it expects about 65 per cent of its stores to be serviced by automation by the end of its fiscal year 2026, just days after revealing plans to lay off more than 2,000 people at facilities that fulfill online orders. million US workers and another 60,000 abroad.

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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.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2022

“The ongoing headwind of rising cost inflation further underscores the importance of our Smart Selling program,” Cain told investors, “[and] the commissioning commencement of three of our four automated distribution centres and online customer fulfilment centres in 2023 will also us to drive future efficiencies.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Even the most commoditized of traditional shopping experiences — the supermarket — always has counters for specialty items where people can interact with staff to get exactly what they want. The story can be unique to your brand and can guide shoppers in an arc from indecision or curiosity through an emotionally fulfilling experience.

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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

And as Australia’s supermarket giants struggle to keep up with demand for online orders during lockdowns, innovative new players are swooping in to get their piece of this $7.1 This month alone, four new online supermarkets launched in Australia. It showed how exposed the big supermarkets were to an underdeveloped e-commerce platform.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 21, 2024

According to Retail Week, Burbedge explained: “With this in mind, regrettably we’re proposing to close Waitrose Enfield [customer fulfilment centre] on July 20 and move order volume into Waitrose Coulsdon and Greenford CFCs. “This would support the Partnership Plan and save us £8.7m

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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 Focus

APRIL 20, 2021

The brand is seeking to reshape its estate by slashing its large department stores and has plans to roll-out hundreds of concessions inside Waitrose supermarkets as well as and new Metro-style stores in high streets close to where its customers live. Stores in local high streets will also play an important role to fulfil online orders.

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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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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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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2021

Woolworths has announced plans for a new online fulfilment centre in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, aiming to better serve the region spanning from Engadine to Kurnell – adding a further 15,000 potential customers to its home delivery and direct-to-boot pick up offers. “In Woolies to unveil new Sydney FC.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Gimme aims to offer the best of both worlds: the ease of online shopping and near-instant fulfilment of buying something in-store. . Orders are currently limited to four items, but there are plans to expand this in future. The alternative is for you to go in-store, but that takes time and effort.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2022

For example, JD Super , JD.com’s online supermarket business, will launch new dairy and beverage products during the event. Livestreaming, also a festival staple, will be a big component as well, with more than 10,000 stores planning to run livestreamed sales events on JDDJ.

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