Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

with plans to add approximately 150 new stores to a fleet that already includes 2,100 locations in 37 states. With the new additions, Aldi is on track to edge out Albertsons as the third-largest grocer in the U.S. Aldi also plans to increase its number of locations offering curbside pickup from 1,200 to 1,500 by the end of 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

million new customers the grocer attracted that year. to help support new stores in the area, including plans to add stores in New Orleans and Baton Rouge, La. both new markets for the grocer. The additions will bring Aldi’s U.S. store total to more than 2,400 by the end of 2023 and will span the entire continental U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Misfits Market has announced plans to acquire fellow online grocer Imperfect Foods , both of which aim to tackle the problem of food waste by salvaging aesthetically flawed yet edible produce that would otherwise be discarded. “We food system,” said Abhi Ramesh, CEO and Founder of Misfits Market in a statement. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2025

The suit also accused the retailer of engaging in a secret and misguided campaign, together with C&S Wholesale Grocers , the divestiture buyer, to purse its own regulatory strategy, which ultimately undermined Krogers efforts, according to a Kroger company statement. The merger had originally been announced in October 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2021

Both Uber and Uber Eats are making deliveries in markets including San Francisco, New York City and Washington D.C., and the company plans to have nationwide coverage by the end of this year. The retailer now uses Uber to offer same-day delivery from 7,800 stores, with plans to eventually offer 20,000 items through the platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2020

Xu added that the expansion into grocery deliveries was on its roadmap before the pandemic, but that stay-at-home orders that drove unprecedented adoption of home delivery from restaurants and grocers accelerated those plans.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Weis Markets will streamline operations at its 198 stores through a partnership with Invafresh. The fresh grocery platform will assist with demand forecasting, in-store production planning, food traceability, recipe management and cut test management across all fresh departments.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Reasor’s Foods has reduced cart abandonment among its online shoppers with the deployment of a white-label meal planning solution from GroceryShopii. Since integrating the solution into its RecipeToTable meal planning option in summer 2021, shoppers using it are 5X more likely to complete their ecommerce transactions compared to non-users.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

All too often, this is caused by sluggish internal processes, outdated technology and inaccurate data that stall products from getting to market quickly. Consider, for example, a drugstore chain that has a new OTC drug coming to market in time for allergy season, and the products release is tied to a national advertising campaign.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They also provide an answer to some of the challenges created by the pandemic, as executives from Woodman’s Markets and Badger Technologies discussed during a session titled The Rise Of Robotics In Retail at the 2020 Retail Innovation Conference. The robots also can improve merchandising.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2022

Third-party marketplaces have emerged as one of the biggest growth opportunities for retailers this year, with companies from Macy’s and Bed Bath & Beyond to Giant Food and Michaels launching marketplaces (or announcing plans to do so) in the last six months alone. The value of a marketplace is in the curation.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Outfits like GoPuff, Gorillas and 1520 took the grocery market by storm in 2021, offering a limited menu of consumables, delivered to your door in an incredible 30 minutes or less (and commanding multi-billion dollar valuations in the process.) In 2022, grocers will need to become digital-first. Here’s my take: 1.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 14, 2023

RedMart by Lazada, Singapore’s first fully digital grocer, recently released the findings of its latest research into Singaporean grocery shopping and restocking habits. The post How RedMart by Lazada is navigating Singapore’s changing grocery market appeared first on Inside Retail. Others may follow.

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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 Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2025

Related Story Aldi and Lidl launch new stores ahead of Christmas in latest expansion drive 05/12/2024 x 12:08 PM The German discounter – Britain’s sixth biggest supermarket chain, was the fastest growing bricks-and-mortar grocer in the year to end-November, with sales up 6.6% year-on-year, Kantar said last month.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2025

Competition in the grocery sector is heating up as Tesco revealed it was lowering its profit guidance for the year ahead to give it the firepower it needs to respond to increased market pressures. “Whatever the competitive environment and whatever comes our way, we’re capable of dealing with it,” he assures. .

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 18, 2025

Morrisons is planning to relaunch its Market Street proposition as part of a wider overhaul of the supermarkets trading team. Recently appointed group trading director Andrew Staniland has spearheaded the restructure which sees five layers of reporting in the retailers category buying teams reduced down to three, The Grocer reported.

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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. In July 2024 Hy-Vee implemented digital shelf tags powered by VusionGroup.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Instacart is currently piloting the new ad service with Schnuck Markets , Good Food Holdings and Plum Market , among others, with plans to roll it out more broadly later this year. Key Food is already using the solution, which is now live for all Instacart Platform customers.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Morrisons will utilise long-standing tech partner Ocado’s fulfilment centres to help drive its move to more in-store fulfilment, as the bricks-and-mortar grocer reassesses its online grocery operations. At its 2021 peak, the online grocer was valued at £22bn, but it is now worth around £3bn.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 15, 2022

Apollo Funds has reached a deal with KKR to acquire Cardenas Market, a grocery chain serving Hispanic consumers. Apollo plans to add Cardenas to a portfolio that includes Tony’s Fresh Market, a specialty grocer in Chicago. Both companies will continue to operate under their own banners and management.

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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 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. Bigger rivals Tesco and Sainsbury’s have been gaining ground alongside the fast-growing discounters Aldi and Lidl.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 16, 2024

Aldi is set to near Asda’s market share by 2027 and could overtake it by 2028, GlobalData has revealed. The data and analytics company said in order to secure its position in the UK food and grocery market as the third biggest grocer, Asda must “redefine itself with a clear differentiation from discounters”. last month.

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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. Private label offerings are growing increasingly common among online grocers for the same reason they have been popular for decades at traditional retailers.

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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. Aldi made its U.S.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 28, 2025

in the 12 weeks to 18 May, increasing its market share 0.4 This is almost double that of Sainsburys, whose market share remained flat at 15.1% Related Story Asda ditches plans for driver-facing cameras in delivery vans 27/05/2025 x 7:31 AM The UKs third biggest grocer softened its sales decline to -3.2%.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

Best Buy is the latest retailer to enter the advertising market with the launch of Best Buy Ads, an in-house media company designed to help shoppers explore the retailer’s products, services and offers. Best Buy Ads will partner with brands to guide their marketing efforts with relevant messages.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

billion merger, Kroger and Albertsons have increased the number of supermarkets they plan to divest by 166 , for a total of 579 stores. The retailers also have increased the corporate and office infrastructure they would sell to C&S Wholesale Grocers , as well as additional private label product lines, for a total of approximately $2.9

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2023

The supermarket ad circular is an age-old marketing tool, albeit one that frequently ends up in the recycling bin. To combat this, along with the rising costs of printing, grocers are increasingly taking their circulars digital, placing them on their websites and apps.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2022

The launch is likely related to Albertsons’ plans to re-enter the marketplace arena; the retailer’s Senior Director of Marketplaces Jasmin Krdzalic provided a “sneak peek” at the May 2022 RICE conference in Chicago. in a statement.

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Mass Relators

JULY 28, 2021

The analysis suggests grocers are positioned to be the ultimate mealtime solution in that 39% of consumers view retail foodservice as a substitute for a both a home-cooked meal and a restaurant meal.”. It is noteworthy that 64% of consumers who typically prepare hybrid meals say they plan their dinners a few days at a time.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Virtually every aspect of the enterprise, from product development and analytics to operations and marketing, will need to evolve in parallel with the modern market; retailers need to rethink their cross-functional operations to thrive as they progress into the future.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 23, 2025

Morrisons is set to revamp its UK stores in a bid to offer shoppers a more premium “farm shop feel” The overhaul is being implemented under a strategy dubbed Morrisons magic, headed by the supermarket’s group trading director Andrew Staniland, The Grocer reported.

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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. Edge AI is a totally different technological approach, a totally different technological expertise, a totally different data set [than cloud AI], McIntosh added.

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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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