Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The trolley, dubbed Caper Cart, is a collaboration between Coles and US supermarket technology company Instacart, and it is scheduled to be trialled at Coles Richmond Traders in Melbourne early next year. The Coles Smart Trolley has an interactive digital screen that displays in-store specials and product aisle locations.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2024

As it stands, Amazon has a reported 6 per cent market share in the US grocery sector – its combined supermarket footprint includes Whole Foods Market, Amazon Fresh and AWS. Set to open next year, this futuristic ‘fulfilment centre meets supermarket’ will test Amazon’s ability to transfer its online presence into an offline world.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2021

German grocery chain tegut… has piloted a fully automated mini-supermarket concept in Fulda, Germany, with plans to open another three locations in 2021 and, eventually, hundreds of the digital self-service stores across the country. The ground at the location does not have to be sealed for the wooden structure.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The in-store grocery shopping experience has held on to its appeal, even as supermarket retailers have realized that they also need to offer customers simple, yet personalized, digital commerce options. But supermarkets can no longer rely on simply providing a top-notch store experience for success.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Amazon continues to expand its grocery delivery services through a new partnership with California chain FoodMaxx , expansions of its partnerships with Save Mart and Lucky Supermarkets , and a new deal with startup Jüsto in Mexico to make grocery delivery available in that country. and Turlock.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 20, 2025

The supermarket chain is planning to offload the shops located across the UK and lease them back for the next 20 years. Sale-and-leaseback deals are popular among supermarkets as a means of raising capital to boost their balance sheet. Asda is looking to sell around 20 stores for 400m to help fund its turnaround plan.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 18, 2025

Aldi has unveiled an updated list of priority locations across the UK where it is actively seeking new store sites, following a nationwide call-out for suggestions from the public. Among the top locations Aldi is targeting are Braintree, Bromley, Hitchin, South Croydon, Worthing and Warwick.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2025

this month, with plans to add locations in New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware in February. Wegmans already works with DoorDash and recently expanded that partnership to additional supermarkets in the chain.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Besides a Woolworths supermarket and BWS liquor store, which account for 51 per cent of turnover and have signed a lease renewal through to 2032 the centre is home to The Reject Shop, Australia Post, a medical centre, pharmacy, and other retailers, with non-discretionary retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

DoorDash kicked off its expanded partnership with Wegmans Food Markets by offering on-demand delivery from the supermarket’s Maryland stores, with Wegmans locations in Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey, Delaware and upstate New York available in the coming days and more stores to follow.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Walgreens has teamed up with Grubhub to bring both Walgreens and Duane Reade locations into the delivery platforms network, providing customers with on-demand delivery of 15,000 items including beauty, health and wellness, snacks, personal care, household items and toys.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 18, 2025

Waitrose has confirmed that its first new full-line supermarket in seven years will open in Bristol in 2027. The 30,000sq ft store will create 150 new jobs and be built in north of the city in Brabazon, which the retailer described as “one of the most sustainable examples of urban regeneration in the UK”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Save A Lot has partnered with Leevers Supermarkets to launch Ahorra Mucho , a new discount grocery store and innovation center in Aurora, Colo. The Ahorra Mucho (which translates directly to “Save A Lot”) store will have specialized features such as a full-service, centrally located meat counter, a cornerstone of Hispanic cooking.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Three more supermarket chains will connect their electronic shelf label (ESL) hardware to the Carrot Tags pick-to-light functionality from Instacart , making it easier for Instacart pickers — and eventually for consumers themselves — to find the products on their shopping list. locations in August 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Supermarket chain Hy-Vee is continuing to build out its retail media network, RedMedia , through a new partnership with in-store retail media solution Grocery TV.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2022

German supermarket chain REWE Group has introduced autonomous store technology at a 4,300-square-foot Schönhauser Allee location in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, using Tel Aviv, Israel-based Trigo frictionless checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2021

Woolworths supermarket is driving one phase of this project with its Fishermans Bend Neighbourhood Shopping Centre, which opened in July. The center is located in the Wirraway precinct and is an adaptive reuse of an existing warehouse.

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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. Further new site locations will be unveiled during the year. Further new site locations will be unveiled during the year.

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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. store total (prior to the SEG acquisition) to more than 2,400.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 30, 2025

Woolworths added a net two new supermarkets to its network over the quarter, completed 12 renewals and closed one Metro store. Five new direct-to-boot locations were added in the third quarter of this year, which is now available at 745 stores. Store-originated sales for this quarter increased by 1.4 per cent to $418 million.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 5, 2025

Rite Aid Bankruptcy Leads to Major Store Closures Last month, Rite Aid received court approval to sell the majority of its pharmacy assets more than 1,000 store locations to a mix of national competitors and grocery chains. a steep decline from nearly 2,400 in early 2023 the chain is shedding locations rapidly.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2020

DoorDash , best known for restaurant deliveries, is expanding further into the supermarket vertical through partnerships with Meijer , Fresh Thyme and Smart & Final , with plans to add Hy-Vee and Gristedes / D’Agostino “in the coming weeks,” wrote Mike Goldblatt, Head of Grocery and Convenience Partnerships at DoorDash in a blog post.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 16, 2023

BJ’s will use this real-time data to enable faster restocking, help associates and shoppers to quickly locate products and improve inventory tracking. Prior to the launch, Simbe worked with BJ’s to refine the technology in order to optimize it for the unique layouts and product assortments of a club retailer.

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Retail Focus

JULY 28, 2021

Their apps open, supermarket executives also enquire: “But who’ll own the data …?”. Second, think about how retail and supermarket buildings could be affected: Just Walk Out will also mean “just walk in, anywhere.” The post Why Amazon’s New “Just Walk Out” Supermarkets Will Change Everything.

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Retail Times

MAY 7, 2025

Aldi is reaching out to the public to help identify the best locations for new stores across the UK. The UKs fourth-largest supermarket is inviting customers to submit suggestions for where new Aldi stores should be opened.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

billion (Canadian) this year, the supermarket retailer will open 80 new stores under a variety of banners, with approximately 50 of these stores being hard discount locations. million-square-foot facility located in East Gwillimbury, Ontario. million-square-foot facility located in East Gwillimbury, Ontario.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 9, 2025

This approach proved successful in the mid-20th century and by 1960, grocery chains and supermarkets accounted for 70% of retail food sales. Although promotional dollars and considerations are a key source of revenue for todays supermarkets, the industry has become too reliant upon this old way of doing business. But thats changing.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2025

Loblaws is expanding its partnership with DoorDash by allowing members of the retailer’s PC Optimum loyalty program to earn points with their DoorDash purchases, whether they are made at Loblaws supermarkets or at restaurants or other merchants’ stores. DoorDash has partnered with Loblaws for delivery services since June 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2025

This summer, Albertsons Media Collective will deploy in-store digital display networks in stores located in two regions that are key for the supermarket giant.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Ray David, a portfolio manager at Blackwattle Investment Partners, told The Australian Financial Review that Woolworths’ New Zealand supermarkets had not performed well, with earnings down 57 per cent in the year ended June 30. “We The company has so far expanded to 200 locations in the country. per cent at Coles.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 9, 2025

Asda is selling off some of its supermarket car parks as it looks to pay down its mounting debt pile. The developers could bid to take all five sites on 125-year leases or purchase individual locations, which can be turned into new homes or shops, Newsteer said.

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Retail Wire

JULY 6, 2024

These machines, developed by American Rounds, are located in supermarkets and use advanced technologies like artificial intelligence and facial recognition to ensure buyers meet legal age requirements. A new retail platform has emerged in Oklahoma and Alabama: AI-powered vending machines that dispense bullets.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For those in Melbourne, stepping into the LaManna supermarket, in the northern suburb of Essendon Fields, is like taking the world’s shortest flight to Italy. To the LaManna customer, a trip to the supermarket is not an errand but an indulgence. LaManna’s defiance of the industry status quo means it is only just hitting its stride.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2022

Southern California grocery chain Vallarta Supermarkets will incorporate white-label picking and delivery capabilities from stor.ai In June, the grocer shared that it would test autonomous robots in five of its California locations, in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles and San Bernadino, Calif. By partnering with stor.ai

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2021

Discount supermarket Aldi is making a push into convenience with the opening this week of a Corner Store concept in North Sydney. The new store layout is designed to support smaller-basket, convenience-driven purchases, in contrast to the traditional big-box Aldi supermarket typically frequented by consumers for larger shopping trips.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2025

The company operates a portfolio of 85 department stores, 87 home improvement superstores, 695 supermarkets, 41 hypermarkets, 13 wholesale warehouses and a slew of specialty retail brands across multiple categories, totalling 3844 sales locations in all. hypermarkets and three more Mini Go!

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Inside Retail

MARCH 6, 2022

Woolworths Group says it will open a large Big W store alongside its refurbished Woolworths supermarket at Sydney’s Town Hall later this year. Big W MD Pejman Okhovat said that the Town Hall location will offer great value for city dwellers and workers.

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