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

MARCH 6, 2024

The solution features built-in catalog services and automated marketing campaigns as well as flexible fulfillment solutions that allow retailers to choose the model that works best for their stores. Canseco’s Market , Harps Foods and Price Chopper have joined the 600+ retail banners using Instacart Storefront to support their ecommerce sites.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 31, 2022

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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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 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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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

There’s a battle underway to create the future of retail — not just change it one step at a time, but radically overhaul the way shopping is experienced. We saw this early in the pandemic, as retailers quickly implemented new ecommerce and fulfillment capabilities. That sounds good. Many retailers are at this stage.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

More than half of these orders were fulfilled through stores, making them valuable staging points for the last mile. Walmart also provides fulfillment services for its marketplace sellers , media support for its brand partners and access to its cloud techn o logy through the Adobe Commerce platform.

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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

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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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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Australia’s supermarket duopoly, Coles and Woolworths, have raced to implement new technology and transform labour arrangements to keep up with the e-grocery boom. My research suggests a reimagining of the Australian supermarket is currently underway. The supermarket personal shopper.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

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. Changing shopping habits. effortless? ?way? groceries? ?delivered? delivered? ?to? within an hour. It will be an ?ideal?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2022

Australia has experienced plenty of supermarket shortages since the COVID pandemic began. As Omicron infections surge in every state apart from Western Australia, supply chains are being crippled by the sheer number of transport, distribution and shop workers now sick or required to isolate. A self-fulfilling crisis.

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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

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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

There’s a small local supermarket in Queensland that is less than 150 sqm but punches above its weight in community engagement. This is what we mean when we talk about the social side of shopping. It gives people a reason to go shopping, instead of just looking for the best deals online. It’s the heart of the business.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 13, 2021

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. The post GIANT debuts two Philadelphia supermarkets appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers. The store also offers GIANT Direct.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2023

parent company of the Loblaws supermarket chain, will invest $2 billion Canadian (approximately $1.49 By growing and innovating, we are advancing the priorities that matter to customers: outstanding shopping experiences, affordable options and support for their health and wellness,” said Galen G. Loblaw Companies Ltd.,

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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. Since then, we’ve seen the investment continue.

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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

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 3, 2023

In March 2022 Amazon announced the closure of 68 brick-and-mortar stores across multiple formats, and in February 2023 CEO Andy Jassy revealed that the company would temporarily halt expansion of its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and Amazon Go convenience stores.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

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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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 TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2023

We are launching Vine & Cellar to give our customers and fellow wine enthusiasts the ability to discover and shop regional and specialty wines from smaller vineyards that are not usually available at national supermarket retailers,” said Mann in a statement.

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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

APRIL 27, 2022

“This model is in response to a sustained increase in online shopping that is seen within the existing supermarket network, while also providing a reduced Covid-19 risk for customers,” a Woolworths spokesperson said. Who doesn’t want to get in, pick up their shopping and get out? “I I reckon it will be a roaring success.

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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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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 Online penetration for supermarkets is quite interesting – 8.5 per cent lift in net profit to $2.07 per cent to $39.2

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“Our customers are New Yorkers, and they are savvy, on the move and always looking for smart, convenient ways to shop,” said Perry Blatt, Director of Ecommerce and Business Development for Fairway Market in a statement. Fairway Market is a trademark of the retailer-owned supermarket cooperative Wakefern Food Corp.

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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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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

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. Voly is the supermarket of the future that is built around our customers, not the other way around.”.

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