Retail Gazette

JANUARY 30, 2024

Meanwhile, grocery price inflation eased at a slower rate this month, as the proportion of promotional products bought fell compared to December. “Retailers have taken their foot off the promotions gas slightly as we’ve come into the new year, and that’s meant inflation hasn’t fallen as quickly.” in January, down from 6.9%

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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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Fulfillment Drop-Shipping Supply Chain Management Grocer 257

Mass Relators

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When asked for top reasons to shop online, 64% of consumers cited comfort of shopping from home, and 60% noted free shipping or delivery options. To compete with the growth of internet retailers, brick-and-mortar grocers should embrace omnichannel retailing. One way was to reduce the number of deals they offered.

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Grocer Supermarket Drop-Shipping Consumer 52

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Babbage noted that some UK retailers that offered soft plastic recycling found out the waste was being shipped to other countries rather than being properly recycled. She highlighted UK-based grocer Morrisons ’ pick-your-own-eggs program as an example of a successful strategy.

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Grocer Shipping Consumer Promotions 214

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2021

Retailers are forced to offer pricing schemes or promotional plans that are sub-optimal for themselves. RTP: Data sharing is a key recommendation that underlies this report. Why is this such an issue for both parties? Without a willingness to share data and become more strategic partners, the relationship-building process is an expensive one.

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Rangeme

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Shipping delays. Trans-Pacific cargo ships face bottlenecks in major ports like Los Angeles, and these shipping delays threaten access to merchandise. Product prices will continue to rise as companies incur higher shipping, labor, and raw material costs. Source: SEI. 2 Unglesbee, Ben. 12 Lempert, Phil. November 1, 2021.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JUNE 7, 2022

That’s one of the reasons why discount grocers like Aldi and Lidl were able to gain share in the United Kingdom over a decade ago after the last recession. It has attacked the threat from discount grocers head on by offering everyday low prices on a selection of items and it’s paying off. Value for money. Source: Bloomberg.

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Retail Adventures

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The Antieau Gallery in New Orleans promoting free shipping as a Christmas Miracle. If you have been to Quilt Market in Phoenix there’s a good chance you visited Phoenicia Specialty Foods, a grocer not too far from the convention center. We saw a lot of cross-promotion going on in all sorts of businesses.

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Promotions Merchant Services Shopping Grocer 52

Rangeme

JULY 12, 2022

companies potential opportunities to boost sales and minimize shipping costs. The top five grocers in Canada in 2020 in descending order of market share were: Loblaws /Shoppers Drug Mart (27%), Sobeys/Safeway (22%), Metro /Jean Coutu (11%), Costco (9%), and Walmart (8%). Canadian Grocer. Canadian Grocer. April 22, 2022.

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Marketing Beauty and Health Consumer Grocer 52

Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [37:26] No exact yeah I mean I think the Grocer’s talk and I hesitate to bring this up because I don’t think I remember I’ll for off the top my head but there’s like four typical types of shopping missions right so there is that like Pantry stocking shop there’s like a weekly shop there’s a.

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Merchant Services Grocer Advertising Payment Services 52

Rangeme

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A Large-Scale Disruption in Container Shipping is Expected to Wreak Havoc on Retail This Christmas. The global probiotics market is in-demand for promoting healthy bacteria and digestion. Source: The Grocer. Ulster Grocer. A Large-Scale Disruption in Container Shipping is Expected to Wreak Havoc on Retail This Christmas.

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Beauty and Health Consumer Grocer Shopping 52

Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Jason: [4:20] Yeah no I think your speculation is probably spot-on you know groceries a tough business to make money like in way instacart isn’t really a grocer that are. Not ship the stuff out and kind of normal Smiley Prime box that everything else comes out and.

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Shipping Merchant Services Fulfillment Wholesale 98

Mass Relators

OCTOBER 13, 2021

When asked for top reasons to shop online, 64% of consumers cited comfort of shopping from home, and 60% noted free shipping or delivery options. To compete with the growth of internet retailers, brick-and-mortar grocers should embrace omnichannel retailing. One way was to reduce the number of deals they offered.

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Supermarket Drop-Shipping Consumer Shopping 52

Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Over 600 Grocers nationally in the in the US and well in North America really but. [11:12] But in the long run if digital grocery becomes 10% or more of all grocery sales do Grocers need to develop. Deliver a technology solution to Consumers who have an expectation that they can shop their neighborhood grocer or their National grocer.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

5:15] Another hobby of I guess it was a shared one is we like to coin phrases, one of the ones that I coined was Zero friction addiction so when consumers have these low-friction experiences not only are they great. And this is where we. Jason: [11:03] We got on like The Today Show.

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Fulfillment Shipping Merchant Services Advertising 52

Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02] Scot: [9:59] Yeah the have is there a list of people that have done J W wasn’t one of the convenience store it’s kind of like 7-Eleven is that right.

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Social Commerce Merchant Services Shopping Promotions 52

Retail Geek

JULY 7, 2022

So he is a pure digital grocery guy obviously he’s had brought more recently he’s had broader roles it. Then then just grocery but you know one would assume that Amazon Fresh is near and dear to his heart that’s the only brick-and-mortar concept that still.

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Merchant Services Fulfillment Consumer Payment Services 81