Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Kroger and Albertsons will sell 413 stores across 17 states and the District of Columbia, along with eight distribution centers, two offices and five private label brands, to C&S Wholesale Grocers for approximately $1.9 billion in cash.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The supply chain crisis means an out-of-stock crisis for grocers, and empty shelves means unhappy and disloyal customers. To operate profitably and satisfy customers, grocers will optimize their assortments with far fewer, but more reliable and affordable products. . In 2022, grocers will need to become digital-first.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2025

Deliveroo has launched a new white label solution, named Deliveroo Express, designed for grocers and retailers in the UK and Ireland, enabling them to offer rapid, on-demand delivery through their own online channels. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazettes free daily email newsletter

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Holland & Barrett is planning to open up to 50 new stores in the UK next year as it ramps up its expansion plans. The targeted store expansion for next year includes standalone stores, new formats and instore concessions with its retail partners, The Grocer reported.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

Southeastern Grocers (SEG) has initiated a strategic divestiture of its business, with Aldi set to acquire all SEG grocery operations under the Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket banners and investment group Fresco Retail Group set to take over the Fresco y Más banner. store total (prior to the SEG acquisition) to more than 2,400.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 20, 2025

Asda is looking to sell around 20 stores for 400m to help fund its turnaround plan. The supermarket chain is planning to offload the shops located across the UK and lease them back for the next 20 years. Asda has appointed property advisor Eastdil Secured to manage the sale, Green Street News reported.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2024

Since food inflation took off globally, we have been laser-focused on doing what we can to keep prices lower for customers, including opening more discount food locations in more parts of the country. This is a test and learn project, and we’re planning to listen and adjust quickly. in a statement. The stores, in Windsor, St. “Our

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The alliance, which is made up of 165,000 businesses across the grocery supply chain, is calling for a ‘national food security plan’ to minimise future price increases due to further disruption. The post How Invertigro, Urban Plant Growers plan to shorten the food supply chain appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2024

Discount grocer Aldi will invest more than $9 billion over the next five years on its national expansion plan, which includes adding 800 stores to its U.S. Aldi’s growth plans include beefing up its presence in the Northeast and Midwest, with plans to add nearly 330 stores across both regions by 2028.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2024

The discount retailer also plans to close an additional 370 Family Dollar stores and 30 Dollar Tree locations over the next several years as each store’s current lease expires. stores by 2028; Tractor Supply will open more than 90 stores in 2024; and Warby Parker plans to open 40 stores this year. Dollar Tree Inc.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 5, 2025

According to a press release , the retail giant plans on driving additional customers to its stores with this partnership. It will begin with Wienerschnitzel restaurants in six locations, each owned and operated by a local franchisee. Walmart is adding an in-store, fast-casual hot dog restaurant, Wienerschnitzel, to six of its stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

Designed for total brand immersion with experiences and social storytelling at its core, the company said the new location on Rue Faubourg St. ” 2 New Grocery Partners and 230 More Locations to be Added in Next 3 Months Claire’s also is expanding its offerings to Gen Zalpha in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Were building our technology for our retailer partners to help them compete with much, much, much larger players and grocers. And retailers can open that opportunity to their CPG partners $1 off if you buy three Pepsi products, for example. What’s also unique about our approach is the ability to connect with the cloud piece.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 16, 2023

— Aldi today announced it has agreed to acquire Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket locations from Southeastern Grocers, as the Jacksonville, Fla.-based ” Aldi said it is “doubling down” on its expansion plans at a time when many retailers shuttering stores due to economic concerns. BATAVIA, Ill.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

Additionally, Best Buy Ads will put an emphasis on diversity and inclusion — part of Best Buy’s five-year plan to address underrepresentation and technology inequities, which includes dedicating nearly 10% of its annual media spend to BIPOC media by 2025.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 23, 2025

The UK’s fourth-largest grocer, which already operates more than 1,050 stores and employs over 45,000 people, is hiring for positions ranging from store assistants and cleaners to store apprentices and management roles.

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VMS

JUNE 4, 2025

It’s almost summer, and a trio of ice-cream sellers are celebrating their busy season with some expansion plans. It joins Carvel’s 370-plus locations in 14 countries. which plans to open 10 more locales in Texas. Overall, Kilwins has 175 locations in 28 states, including nine existing stores in the Lone Star State.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

Save A Lot has relicensed its 18 remaining corporate-owned supermarkets, completing its strategy of shifting ownership and operations of all locations to independent licensed ownership. Since its inception, Save A Lot has filled an important need as a discount, high-quality hometown grocer in each community it serves.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2023

In February 2022, Instacart expanded offerings under its Instacart Platform umbrella, adding online and in-store solutions to help grocers and other food retailers capture ad revenue and enabling more seamless end-to-end fulfillment solutions. Instacart Business has no monthly minimum fees or requires additional contracts.

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VMS

JUNE 23, 2025

C&S Wholesale Grocers LLC (Keene, N.H.) said it plans to acquire SpartanNash Co. and will serve close to 10,000 independent retail locations, with collectively more than 200 corporate-run grocery stores. Grand Rapids, Mich.) for $26.90 per share of SpartanNash common stock in cash, which translates to $1.77

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Woodman’s Markets operates 230,000-square-foot stores with approximately 100,000 SKUs each, and like most grocers its inventory was hit hard by shoppers stocking up early in the pandemic. In addition to finding misplaced displays, the robots can detect pricing mistakes and sale price discrepancies.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2025

The supermarket’s store, which opened in late February, is the first to feature the updated design and layout, and is being followed by similar changes at two new London locations, Sainsburys Bermondsey Square and Sloane Avenue. Sainsburys has also introduced a self-serve locker for on-demand deliveries, a new service for the company.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2023

Coles has officially entered Malaysia, where it is poised to offer more than 200 products through an exclusive collaboration with Malaysian supermarket chain Jaya Grocer. The deal will allow Jaya Grocer to offer over 1000 products from Australian brands through its 43 stores and via GrabMart delivery nationwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2023

While not officially a grocer, many Americans, especially those in rural areas, rely on the retailer for everyday essentials, including food (approximately 80% of Dollar General stores serve communities of 20,000 or fewer people). The retailer opened its 19,000th store in January 2023.)

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2024

The discount grocer will open shops in Preston and Derby later in March, with further sites planned across Castle Gresley, Bardon, High Wycombe, and Stoke Gifford in the coming months. Each shop opening is set to create around 40 new jobs on average, according to the discount grocer.

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Shopping Center

MARCH 8, 2024

German discount grocer Aldi has announced plans to add 800 new locations across the United States by the end of 2028. The company will invest more than $9… The post Aldi Plans 800-Store Expansion Across the U.S. Batavia, Ill. by 2028 appeared first on Shopping Center Business.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 1, 2024

Aldi has launched a new nationwide initiative to pinpoint prime locations for new store openings and is calling on the public to help. The areas with the most suggestions will then be considered as prime locations as the grocer looks to build hundreds of new stores across Britain.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 21, 2024

Aldi has unveiled its wish list of top priority locations to open stores across London, including Notting Hill, Chelsea and Richmond as it looks launch more sites. of a freehold price or 10% of the first year’s rent for leasehold sites, for recommending a previously unknown site.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 22, 2025

M&S also expanded its beauty takeback scheme to 100 stores in November, as part of its plan A roadmap to net zero. The scheme allows customers to recycle any form of plastic or aluminium beauty packaging from any retailer, by dropping their used beauty packaging into boxes located within the stores beauty section.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2023

In the latest developments, Kroger is looking beyond its websites with plans to expand in-store advertising opportunities, and Walmart is teaming up with more tech partners to help brands get the most out of its retail media network. Kroger Makes Major Push to Expand Retail Media in Stores Kroger plans to add smart screens at 500 of its U.S.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 26, 2025

The discount chain said the new warehouse marks a significant milestone in the expansion of TJ Morris national distribution network, The Grocer reported. The one millionsq ft Doncaster site, due to complete in October 2026, is designed to enhance logistics efficiency, create new job opportunities, and support Home Bargains expansion plans.

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Retail Focus

JULY 28, 2021

” Parking can be located 360 degrees around the store, with customers choosing favored entries by department or parking success. And that’s just scratching the surface — inside, the new customer-focused planning opportunities make my designers’ head spin. Maybe try this? ”. We’ll deliver.” . Photo by Andrew Meredith.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

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. RTP: Is Loblaw planning to expand its use of hyperlocal automation in the future?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

America’s retailers and their workers have been on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, with grocers, pharmacies and other retailers working hard to make sure families have access to food, medicine and other needed goods and services. Preparing an Emergency Response Plan. Disruption and innovation are common themes for 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Some of the retailer’s plans include redesigning back rooms to accommodate pickup, delivery and ship- from-store orders; adjusting staging operations for orders to drop in three-hour increments to maximize space; and sending overflow delivery orders to the crowdsourced Spark Driver network.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

French retailer Carrefour had ambitions to grow its e-commerce sales amid digital-native grocers but was struggling with digital assets that were managed separately, which impeded making changes at scale. It wanted to create synergy between its bricks-and-mortar locations and digital storefront.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In October, the department store retailer announced plans to open 30 more “mini stores” in strip centers across the US over the next two years, as it veers outside of the shopping mall. Mastronardi noted, “The high level of convenience in places that have a lot of traffic — that’s been the secret sauce.”

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