Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2025

Many grocers in Europe, where this is more common, roll out dynamic pricing gradually, starting with foundational tools like electronic shelf labels (ESLs). While ESLs are common across European grocers, they remain relatively rare in the U.S., with most grocers using them in limited regions or stores. Retailers in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cognetry provides ecommerce and fulfillment solutions for independent and mid-sized grocers, and the partnership aims to help more of them add delivery services. Walmart has partnered with last mile solution provider Cognetry Labs to offer Walmart GoLocal’s network of delivery options to Cognetry’s clients.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 4, 2025

Asda managers only found out about the supermarkets decision to scrap their annual bonuses when the news broke in the media, sources have told Retail Gazette. The supermarket giant has reportedly scrapped its bonus scheme for more than 10,000 managers due to underperformance, with the news first emerging in The Telegraph earlier this week.

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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. With a return to in-store shopping, demand for online services has become more manageable. With a return to in-store shopping, demand for online services has become more manageable.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

“We’ve come a long way in our digital journey by launching our app and website powered by Instacart Storefront,” said Alexis Canseco, Manager of Operations at Canseco’s Market in a statement. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Instacart has expanded the offerings under its Instacart Platform umbrella, a suite of enterprise-grade technologies designed to help grocers with their digital transformations. Instacart launched Platform in March 2022 as the next step in its broader strategy to become the ecommerce and technology enabler of the grocery industry. “At

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Coles Group , which operates a chain of more than 800 supermarkets across Australia, will deploy the Bringg delivery management platform in a bid to make its home delivery operations more efficient. The solution will make it easier for Coles to allocate deliveries to its network of carriers and track deliveries in real time. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2022

The impact of this increasing growth is the resulting strain on incumbent infrastructure that was originally designed to manage only about 5% of a retailer’s total sales capacity; the steady rise in costs from stretching this capacity have shown home delivery, buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) and curbside fulfilment to be highly unprofitable.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Jin told Inside Retail that he was in contact with multiple cash management brands before signing with Glory. When you are paying senior managers wages and they are spending so much time handling cash every day, the money saved from automating that process is significant.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2025

For this reason, there have been major investments in exciting retail activations from some of the biggest grocers in the world, with a particular focus on bringing the online and in-store shopping experiences together in one seamless checkout. grocers are valued at $8.5 boasting 365 locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2021

Rather than years or months, grocers had just weeks (if not days) to adapt to the new competitive pressures of the ecommerce space. Grocers must think of other ways to gain and maintain market share, and many have come to realize the role that frontline management plays in reaching this objective. reached $7.2

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Retail Wire

JUNE 30, 2024

has expanded its reach by acquiring Save Mart Companies from private equity firm Kingswood Capital Management, which had owned the retailer since 2022. The Jim Pattison Group, a prominent Canadian conglomerate with extensive business operations in Canada and the U.S.,

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 13, 2025

Asda chairman Allan Leighton has launched his first set of cost-cutting at the grocer, following its disastrous Christmas period. The beleaguered supermarket cut roles for 13 regional managers last week under a shake-up designed to reduce headcount and improve performance, The Telegraph reported.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

Cooperative food wholesaler Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) , which serves independently owned supermarkets, has expanded its partnership with Instacart to offer ecommerce and same-day delivery solutions as well as smart cart technology to its member retailers. An Instacart shopper will then pick and deliver the order.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

Albertsons has completed its rollout of an inventory management platform specifically designed for the rapidly changing nature of fresh products, deploying the solution across its more than 2,000 supermarkets in just seven months’ time. Driving sustainability practices across Albertsons Cos.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The grocer, whose debt sits around £6bn, refinanced £3.2bn of its borrowings in May that helped delay its repayments until the next decade. Asda continues to take a disciplined and proactive approach to managing its debt obligations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2021

Online grocery’s previously lethargic rate of adoption meant that grocers lagged other retail sectors in multichannel merchandising systems, customer data management and fulfillment technology. As a result, profitability for these online grocers is a challenge. Specifically, expect to see the following come to pass: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

Save A Lot has entered a new partnership with RangeMe to scale the discount grocer’s sourcing efforts for new and innovative products. “Save A Lot is a limited assortment, hometown value grocer,” said Tom Burkemper, VP of Direct Store Delivery & Merchandising Services at Save A Lot in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

To keep up with this demand and consumer expectations, grocers will have to invest in the right forward-looking technology to evolve omnichannel offerings to meet customer needs. With that in mind, here is a look at five strategies that can help grocers optimize online integration of their grocery store.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 25, 2020

In a time when industry standards and strategies are changing almost weekly, labor costs continue to rise, bringing headaches to the minds of grocery industry leaders and management teams alike. Many grocers tend to think too big-picture when it comes to finding solutions for increasing labor costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Act Two is digitizing the in-store experience with services like Caper [smart carts] and FoodStorm [order management]. Were building our technology for our retailer partners to help them compete with much, much, much larger players and grocers. Where we’re going is to unify the experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2024

to LA-based private equity firm Kingswood Capital Management for an undisclosed amount. and executive chairman Shane Sampson will stay on in his current role, according to The Canadian Grocer. In 2022, the Piccinini family sold Save Mart Cos. Following the acquisition, the Save Mart Cos. will remain headquartered in Modesto, Calif.,

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 1, 2025

The grocer’ s initiative, part of its Big Jan Price Drop, includes well-known brands such as Cathedral City Mature Cheddar, Dolmio Bolognese Sauce, and Persil Wonder Wash, alongside reductions on Asda own-brand items like whole chicken and salmon fillets.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

AI and robotics will be widespread: By 2032, you should expect pickup only grocers to be open throughout the U.S., In addition, grocers will use robotic MFCs (microfulfillment centers) to pick and pack their goods from the store locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And in many cases, traditional product information management (PIM) systems are one of the main culprits. Managing product information manually or with outdated systems inevitably leads to inefficiencies, errors and wasted resources. However, theres more to a modern PIM than simply layering in an AI component.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

Were creating an even more attractive offering for advertisers to easily stay connected with customers wherever they choose to shop among Instacarts growing network of retail sites powered by Carrot Ads, which will now include one of the Midwests largest grocers.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

Today, technology and recipe management systems enable industrial scale, accurate labelling of packaged food to comply with current legislation and food safety guidelines. Prescriptive health management is also closely looking into how fresh food contributes to how nutrition can prevent, manage and treat illness.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Leighton is set to create a revival plan for the business by the end of January, and said he was looking for a “really good leader” who may not necessarily be a retailer but who understood shoppers and managing people. Related Story Can Asda veteran Allan Leighton return the supermarket to its former glory?

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2022

The retailer will use the Pensa solution to visually scan products in all categories, affording near-real-time access to data that’s valuable both to the grocer and its CPG partners. Regional Twin Cities grocery chain Lunds & Byerlys has invested in an AI-powered platform to monitor on-shelf inventories across its 28 locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2022

As grocers around the world work furiously to meet consumers’ demand for delivery without breaking the bank, Chinese online grocer Missfresh looks to have a winning model. We’ll have different promotions in the afternoon or late evening period to make sure that we’re managing a good inventory turnover,” explained Chen. “It’s

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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. In May 2023 the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union had voted to oppose any mergers. “C&S

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 6, 2025

Among the tools it provides are reservations, waitlist and table management, review aggregation, revenue management, referrals, email and text marketing, and marketing automation. The acquisition price values Deliveroo at 2.4 billion ($3.2 The company is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol ROO.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 16, 2024

So what benefits does AI offer to grocers? How AI is Reshaping Product Discovery in Commerce With many assuming that AI’s role in commerce will only grow in significance and positive impact, grocers are in a strong position to benefit from AI investments and partnerships. The latest AI models have grown more sophisticated.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

” While traditionally one of the slowest retail sectors to embrace ecommerce, grocers were forced to quickly evolve during the pandemic as stores shuttered and customers demanded new ways to get their essentials. We are eager to continue to test and iterate on these new concepts as consumer needs continue to evolve.”

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Health-focused online grocer Thrive Market plans to launch a retail media network powered by Instacart ’s Carrot Ads solution. Thrive Market will use Carrot Ads to help connect brands with its more than 1.5 million members through sponsored product and display ads on its own website and app.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The company stressed that chair Allan Leighton urgently needed to resolve the grocer’s operational issues. ” It comes as Leighton has made a series of early indications of how he plans to restore the grocers performance, including appointing former Asda execs and spearheading the reintroduction of Rollback and Asda Price.

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