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

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

JUNE 5, 2020

Food Lion will acquire 62 BI-LO / Harveys Supermarket stores in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia from Southeastern Grocers. The grocery retailer expects to hire more than 4,650 associates to keep the new locations staffed.

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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.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 14, 2025

He spent the last eight years at the UKs third biggest grocer, responsible for its retail and online shopping channels. Gregg’s departure from Asda comes as the supermarket has shuffled its leadership team to satisfy the daily and weekly shopping needs of ordinary working people and their families who demand value.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Southeastern Grocers Inc, the parent company of Fresco y Más , Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie , is donating $250,000 to the International Committee of the Red Cross to support Ukraine and its citizens in partnership with the SEG Gives Foundation. “Our efforts to support Etsy sellers in Ukraine are a reflection of that commitment.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

The 570 -store Midwestern supermarket retailer Hy-Vee will expand its partnership with Instacart by adopting the platforms Carrot Ads solution. This new integration will give Hy-Vee RedMedia access both to Instacarts ad technology and its CPG advertising ecosystem, which delivers advertiser demand from more than 7,000 brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

billion merger of supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons has faced pushback from federal regulators, state Attorneys General and labor unions practically from the moment it was first announced in October 2022. The planned $24.6 Top execs from both companies defended the merger in testimony to a U.S.

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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

AUGUST 28, 2024

“Our commitment to customers is that products at the no name store will be up to 20% less than the regular retail price on a comparable product at any of the four main discount grocers in that local area,” said Melanie Singh, President of Loblaw’s Hard Discount Division in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

billion Kroger acquisition of Albertsons , calling the deal — the largest supermarket merger in U.S. This supermarket mega merger comes as American consumers have seen the cost of groceries rise steadily over the past few years,” said Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition at the FTC in a statement.

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VMS

JUNE 23, 2025

C&S Wholesale Grocers LLC (Keene, N.H.) Together, the combined company will operate almost 60 complementary distribution centers covering the U.S. and will serve close to 10,000 independent retail locations, with collectively more than 200 corporate-run grocery stores. said it plans to acquire SpartanNash Co. for $26.90

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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. Facing regulatory challenges to their proposed $24.6 billion in cash — nearly 50% more than the $1.9 billion price tag of the previous package.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 16, 2024

The tie-up aims to improve store operations, drive greater efficiency for staff and provide shoppers with more efficient and effective service. Sainsbury’s has signed a new five-year partnership with Microsoft, which will see it use AI and machine learning capabilities to accelerate its Next Level Sainsbury’s strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Good Food Holdings and Instacart will open the first Instacart Platform-powered Connected Store at a Bristol Farms location in Irvine, Calif. The supermarket will utilize the Connected Stores experience to help shoppers move seamlessly between the retailer’s app, website and in-store experience.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Phantom inventory is causing UK shoppers to experience out-of-stocks, with poor product availability negatively impacting sales and long-term customer loyalty, according to the latest data from Retail Insight , the leading provider of store operations execution software.

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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. fleet by the end of 2028.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The result is that, over time, the shelves of modern supermarkets have become a telling, yet mismatched portrait of history — a story of what’s worked forever and what…well, hasn’t. However, having so much brand packaging competing for attention in a single grocery store makes it hard to craft a cohesive and elevated brand experience.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 22, 2023

With retailers facing continued supply chain disruption – from the long shadow of covid-19 to Russia’s war on Ukraine and climate change – shoppers are reporting increased levels of out-of-stock products, according to the latest data from Retail Insight , the leading provider of store operations execution software.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

With retailers removing best-before dates to reduce food waste, UK consumers still want supermarkets to offer discounts on goods nearing expiry, according to the latest data from Retail Insight , the leading provider of store operations execution software.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Thirteen years after Woolworths introduced self-service checkouts to Australian supermarket shoppers, discount grocer Aldi has bowed to the demand for quick and convenient self-serve transactions at its stores.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Tesco is launching a new ecommerce initiative to compete with Ocado, aimed at helping international supermarket chains develop their online operations. Today, the retailer processes over a million online orders each week, with 85% of them fulfilled directly from its supermarkets.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2024

M&S has named Morrisons retail operations boss Jayne Wall as its new director of central store operations. Wall, who said last month she would be leaving the supermarket after over a decade, will take up her new role at the high-street giant in August.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 1, 2024

. – NationsBenefits, the market leader for supplemental benefits and health care fintech solutions serving the health care managed care market, announced that Southeastern Grocers (SEG), parent company and home of Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie grocery stores, has joined NationsBenefits’ network of grocery and over-the-counter (O-T-C) retailers.

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VMS

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Systems to erase checkout lines are on the grow, as exemplified by these three new installations: • A Pick & Go store in Munich is Germany’s first fully autonomous, cashier-less supermarket. The new supermarket allows customers to walk in, select their items off the shelves and leave without having to pay at checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

Retail is already seeing successful use cases: Albertsons recently rolled out a predictive ordering platform from Afresh Technologies designed for the rapidly changing nature of fresh products to more than 2,000 of its supermarkets, providing department managers with easy-to-use ordering tools leveraging real-time insights.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Hundreds of Sainsbury’s lorry drivers are being balloted for strike action as the supermarket giant looks to outsource their jobs. The supermarket chain announced in April last year it was investing £220m in making “big, bold” changes in its logistics operations. a year in savings, as well as share save and incentive schemes.

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365 Retail

JULY 24, 2023

Now processing over 10% of the global grocery sales data, Retail Insight , the leading provider of in-store operations execution software, is targeting its next growth phase, consolidating its position as a global technology leader, while expanding into new territories, supported by a series of senior hires.

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

To help answer that question and keep up with this growth between now and then, grocers need to upgrade their e-commerce platforms — and functionality — with scalable and integrated solutions. Amazon’s success in delivering exactly what the customer wants when they want it has raised the substitution accuracy bar for grocers.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2023

In the near-term future, retail media will dictate even the way retail stores are designed. The rise of screens The big grocers dipped their toes with front-of-store screens and now they are set to proliferate. Stand by for screens popping up in multiple store locations within the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It came as the UK’s third-largest grocer reported a dip in sales for the third quarter of 2021, as demand for online food deliveries waned slightly. However, Asda is among supermarket chains expecting a strong festive period, after celebrations were heavily affected by Covid-19 and travel restrictions last year.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

With retailers removing best-before dates to reduce food waste, UK consumers still want supermarkets to offer discounts on goods nearing expiry, according to the latest data from Retail Insight , the leading provider of store operations execution software.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Phantom inventory is causing UK shoppers to experience out-of-stocks, with poor product availability negatively impacting sales and long-term customer loyalty, according to the latest data from Retail Insight , the leading provider of store operations execution software.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Hundreds of Sainsbury’s lorry drivers are being balloted for strike action as the supermarket giant looks to outsource their jobs. The supermarket chain announced in April last year it was investing £220m in making “big, bold” changes in its logistics operations. a year in savings, as well as share save and incentive schemes.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Hundreds of Sainsbury’s lorry drivers are being balloted for strike action as the supermarket giant looks to outsource their jobs. The supermarket chain announced in April last year it was investing £220m in making “big, bold” changes in its logistics operations. a year in savings, as well as share save and incentive schemes.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Seventy-five years later, we are still made up of family-owned businesses with deep roots in the communities where our stores operate,” said Colalillo, who also leads his own family business, ShopRite of Hunterdon County, which was founded by his father in 1954 and today includes five ShopRite stores.

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365 Retail

MAY 4, 2022

And this pricing and promotions sensitivity is causing customers’ loyalty – both to the brands and the supermarkets they shop with – to come under threat. Over half (52%) of UK consumers say they had switched from branded goods to own-brand lines when shopping for food in a bid to keep their grocery bills down.

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