Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Deploying the equipment on an average of four checkouts and the back office of each store represents a significant capital commitment, however, Jin has calculated he has achieved a return on investment of around two years per installation – on equipment with a planned five-year lifespan.

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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 Gazette

MARCH 14, 2025

Asda chair Allan Leighton has laid down his game plan for turning around the UK’s third biggest grocer and “ regaining customers trust” The supermarket chain saw its like-for-like sales slide 3.4% last year as consumers headed elsewhere for their weekly grocery shop.

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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 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. And what is bought more often than grocery?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2021

For example, establishing social distancing measures and offering contactless experiences for in-store shoppers, or expanding digital and mobile shopping options to include in-store or curbside pickup for online shoppers. Before the pandemic, this shopper preferred to shop in-store because it was a familiar and trusted experience.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The Entertainer has pulled its plans to open new stores following the government’s decision to raise National Insurance contributions for employers. The toy specialist revealed it had frozen hiring at its head office and said it could no longer open two shops it had planned after announcements made in last week’s Budget.

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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

Since its 2012 debut, Instacart has made significant progress in convincing Americans that grocery shopping can be done online. Our vision is that, on a 10-year horizon, customers won’t have to choose between shopping online or in store; it’ll be one single, unified mode, powered by Instacart. Image courtesy Instacart.)

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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 Gazette

JANUARY 29, 2025

The German grocery giant will be able to go ahead with its plans to launch the pub inside its Dundonald store, based near Belfast, after a judge dismissed an appeal raised by another trader. Despite this, Colton ruled that the grocer had established the “inadequacy” of local pub offerings.

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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 Gazette

MARCH 14, 2025

Waitrose has confirmed the locations of the first two convenience stores it is opening this year, alongside proposals to refurbish 20 of its existing stores under its 1bn investment plan. The grocer’s Bridport, Newbury, and Swaffham sites are thought to be among the areas to receive investment.

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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. In China small local shops, known as “neighborhood retail,” are big business, generating 1.3 A Missfresh mini-warehouse, which operates as a dark store.

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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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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2025

The surge in festive shopping pushed the retailers turnover to a record high, exceeding 1bn ($1.25bn) for the first time in its 30-year history in the UK, Reuters reported. This milestone comes as the grocer continues to expand its footprint and appeal across the UK. year-on-year, Kantar said last month.

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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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Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2025

The supermarket giant shaved as much as 4m off its expectations for the forthcoming yearas chief executive Ken Murphy looks to safeguard the grocer’s market share of 28.5% – its highest level since 2016.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2024

This new test concept allows us to pass on lower prices to our customers – it’s a completely different and simplified shopping experience.” This is a test and learn project, and we’re planning to listen and adjust quickly. The stores, in Windsor, St.

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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. “This partnership redefines how our members can find products that fit their family’s needs, reducing the cognitive load and making shopping easier with Instacart’s Carrot Ads solution.”

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This is about bringing delight and inspiration to digital shopping to make online experiences as fun as discovering new products in our stores.”. However, whether consumers will actually go to grocers’ sites to seek out content remains to be seen. This isn’t just about creating new ways to feature our products.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

still plan to cook more at home. Food retailers must also have the right financial planning in place to withstand the economic turbulence in the long run and make sure they remain agile regardless of wider market trends. Transform shopping in-store. An estimated one in three continue to shop online for their groceries and goods.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If you’re a grocer, you have different problems than if you’re a fashion retailer, right? Grocers were sitting there with huge supply chain issues, especially initially with the surge in consumers hoarding products and the run on their stores. They’re shopping with just about any retailer now.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The grocer plans to replace self-service with more employee-manned checkouts and pay points across stores, under its ongoing store renovation programme. Retail Gazette explores why Booths is going against the grain, why shoppers have such a love-hate relationship with self-service, and whether more grocers could scrap them.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

Some of the planned improvements include barcode scanning, more efficient inventory management, easier options for adding product images and real-time support to fix any issues that come up. grocers to offer same-day delivery, including Walgreens , Albertsons Cos. The upgrades are aimed at benefiting retailers as well as customers.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 22, 2025

Gartner Marketing Practice senior director analyst Matt Moorut notes there is a desire among younger shoppers to shop sustainably. M&S also expanded its beauty takeback scheme to 100 stores in November, as part of its plan A roadmap to net zero. Likewise, Sainsburys Taste the Difference range also saw sales shoot up 16%.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2023

To combat this, along with the rising costs of printing, grocers are increasingly taking their circulars digital, placing them on their websites and apps. Now Albertsons is taking that a step further, with plans to turn its digital circulars into “dynamic ad campaigns” on Facebook and Instagram.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Leighton helmed Asda from 1996 to 2001 and is credited with turning around the struggling chain, alongside current M&S chair Archie Norman – pulling the grocer from the brink of insolvency to orchestrating its bumper £6.7bn sale to Walmart in 1999. Shops have lost their verve and reason for being.

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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

MAY 16, 2024

The supermarket plans to use Microsoft’s products and engineering capabilities to put “the power of AI in the hands of store colleagues and make shopping more engaging and more convenient for millions of customers across the UK – both online and in store” The pair will focus on three core areas.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Consumers demand grocers and mass merchants in particular provide these last-mile services, and it’s not without challenges, as over 40% of grocery consumers cite delivery and fulfillment services as key attributes while deciding where to shop in the past year.

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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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Retail Gazette

MAY 19, 2025

McKeon returned to the supermarket in January as part of a wider leadership shake-up under executive chairman Allan Leighton, aimed at better meeting the daily and weekly shopping needs of ordinary working people and their families who demand value.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

“We want our customers to feel inspired — through our product, our content and our innovative creative partnerships — but most importantly, through the shopping experience itself,” said Richard Flint, President of Europe for Claire’s in a statement.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 13, 2025

Speaking in a video posted on Saturday (11 January), Throup reinforced Morrisons’ commitment to the farming community, acknowledging their frustration over the planned changes announced in the Labour governments Autumn Budget. We understand your anger and your frustrations at the inheritance tax and were with you, Throup said.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Waitrose is investing in delivering personalised online shopping that will improve the online search and browsing experience using AI tools. ” Burbedge said the tools should help customers with meal planning too. For example, if they search for ‘what goes well with steak?

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