Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Swisslog is already leading the market in Australia with solutions like our micro-fulfilment centre (MFC) for e-commerce fulfilment specialists, Skutopia, which is the first of its kind in Australia to include an automated 24/7 e-commerce solution with click-and-collect availability,” he said.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 27, 2024

Ocado has opened two fulfilment centres in Australia as part of its 2019 deal with retail chain Coles. The online grocer’s customer fulfilment centres (CFCs), which became operational last month, were originally set to open at the end of 2023 but were hit by construction problems. loss the year before.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Instacart has expanded the offerings under its Instacart Platform umbrella, a suite of enterprise-grade technologies designed to help grocers with their digital transformations. Through our partnership with Instacart, we’re able to leverage Platform technologies that have helped us seamlessly grow our ecommerce business.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

Gopuff has partnered with Misfits Market , an online grocer dedicated to reducing food waste that delivers to Gopuff’s microfulfillment centers nearly every day, while Grubhub will work with Mercato , an online marketplace for independent grocery stores with more than 950 retailers across the country.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2020

DoorDash is taking dark store fulfillment in a new direction with an online delivery service that sells products from its owned and operated local distribution centers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Instacart already powers the ecommerce and fulfillment experience for hundreds of retailers across North America. Now the online grocery marketplace has launched a suite of technologies to help its partners continue their digital transformation with new fulfillment , advertising and insights capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“We’re testing and learning with a new grocery shopping experience with a small-format store from Amazon under the same roof as Whole Foods Market,” said Martin. The company is working with the startup Fulfil on a new microfulfillment solution that would see an automated warehouse attached to a Whole Foods in Plymouth, Pa.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

Store Assist is designed to digitize and streamline online order fulfilment workflows by allowing retailers to manage all orders and deliveries in one central location — from in-store pickup to ship-from-store, last -mile delivery orders and even third-party marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Shoppers at the local K-Market Otaniemi grocery store had the option of ordering their groceries online and having them delivered by LMAD’s autonomous vehicle, without requiring physical human interaction (see a video of the robot in action here ). “I

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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

JULY 20, 2022

Save A Lot has entered a new partnership with RangeMe to scale the discount grocer’s sourcing efforts for new and innovative products. The deal will help Save A Lot fulfill its mission of providing consumers with products that meet their needs via new product discovery of emerging and established brands.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Tesco unveiled plans to launch a new ecommerce initiative last week, as it seeks to help international supermarket chains develop their online operations, in a similar move to fellow UK grocer Ocado. What is Tesco ecommerce solution? Former Sainsbury’s group CIO Phil Jordan adds: “On the face of it, they provide the same customer outcomes.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Most notably, DoorDash competitor Instacart launched a similar white label solution in 2022 called Instacart Platform that helps grocers build out their ecommerce and fulfillment offerings. At our core, DoorDash is a merchant-focused company,” said Prabir Adarkar, President and COO of DoorDash in a statement.

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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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Mass Relators

APRIL 14, 2021

CINCINNATI – Kroger announced that the first of 20 customer fulfillment centers (CFC) it is developing in partnership with British online grocer Ocado Group PLC is ready to fulfill orders from online shoppers. ” The post Kroger unveils first Ocado-powered fulfillment center appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers.

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Retail Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Kroger’s sales are ahead of plan in Florida where the grocer has opened one of its automated fulfillment centers and spoke operations to delivery online orders to consumers in the state despite operating only a single store there. said Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen. “By

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. comparable sales growth and growing market share in grocery during Q4 2021, and much of this success can be attributed to its robust last mile and fulfillment strategy.

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Star Miconics

MARCH 8, 2024

of the world’s population, about 2 billion people, takes advantage of meal delivery, and they expect the market to grow to 2.5 Analysts also expect the grocery delivery market , now about $257.5 Grocers have repurposed space and reallocated labor to manage online orders. Statista analysts estimate that 27.4% billion by 2028.

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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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Retail Dive

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The online grocer will rely on smaller facilities to service customers as it streamlines operations.

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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., Uber has found partners in regional supermarkets like Southeastern Grocers and recently started a relationship with Albertsons Companies that will offer delivery from 1,200 stores under more than half a dozen banners.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2021

“This is a critical moment for brick-and-mortar grocers to digitize the in-store shopping experience and unlock similar revenue streams,” said Sean Turner, CTO of Swiftly in commentary shared with Retail TouchPoints. Target’s Same-Day Options Surge. Target’s comparable sales grew 8.9% in Q2 2021, maintaining some of the momentum from the 24.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2022

Online grocer Farmstead has partnered with convenience retailer Circle K to advance both business’ operation with new capabilities. Additionally, both retailers will collaborate on distribution and co-marketing across a variety of new projects.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

This real-time visibility allows businesses to optimise stock levels, prevent stockouts and fulfil orders efficiently. French retailer Carrefour had ambitions to grow its e-commerce sales amid digital-native grocers but was struggling with digital assets that were managed separately, which impeded making changes at scale.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2022

A great example of this is Grab’s acquisition of Jaya Grocer back in January of this year. Jaya Grocer is a leading mass-premium supermarket chain in Malaysia. Indeed, the rise of small-format stores has consistently fueled growth in local markets, such as Indonesia and Vietnam. trillion from 2020 to 2030.

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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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Mass Relators

APRIL 19, 2021

We have also been evolving our customer fulfillment network, leveraging our existing network of assets and strategic partnerships to meet heightened demand.”. Amazon debuted its Amazon Fresh grocer format in September and recently opened its 11th in Bloomingdale, Ill. We will continue to build on this momentum.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Baitiéh, who spent 20 years at French grocery giant Carrefour before heading to Bradford last year, says it has been “ an incredibly fulfilling year, made possible by the dedication of our colleagues and suppliers and the loyalty of our customers.

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Mass Relators

MAY 24, 2021

last month announced that the first of 20 customer fulfillment centers (CFCs) it is developing in partnership with British online grocer Ocado Group PLC was ready to fulfill orders from online shoppers. The post First of Kroger’s CFCs ready to fulfill orders appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2022

The impact of this increasing growth is the resulting strain on incumbent infrastructure that was originally designed to manage only about 5% of a retailer’s total sales capacity; the steady rise in costs from stretching this capacity have shown home delivery, buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) and curbside fulfilment to be highly unprofitable.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2024

Primark is looking to expand its click-and-collect trial across further stores, with the possibility of launching the service to markets outside Britain, its CEO has confirmed. The fast fashion chain is currently trialling click-and-collect across 57 stores, for its womenswear and kidswear products.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2024

The California-based grocer will roll out Caper Carts, Instacart’s AI-powered smart carts, and FoodStorm, an order management system designed to power the retailer’s food service and catering experiences.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The venture, called Transcend Retail Solutions, is led by the supermarket giant’s strategy director Oliver Vogt and offers both software and hardware to enable global grocers to fulfil online orders directly from their stores, The Sunday Times reports. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletter

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Inside Retail

MAY 10, 2021

Automated systems are typically more compact, delivering major savings that can be reinvested in areas that truly make a difference to business, such as service to its existing markets and research and development of new markets. Robotic solutions are required to increase productivity and drive down fulfilment costs.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Consumers were in decent shape heading into the holiday season, but the labor markets, while unlikely to unravel, do look likely to cool, which would impact consumer expectations and, in turn, affect spending decisions,” Jack Kleinhenz said today in NRF’s “Monthly Economic Review” for February.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2021

That means open air shopping centers have become even more attractive due to how they can make curbside and BOPIS fulfillment easier to handle. We saw this firsthand in Dallas, where retailers from nationals down to locals are fulfilling from their store, and I think that fits the way people are using physical retail.

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