Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Kroger and Albertsons will sell 413 stores across 17 states and the District of Columbia, along with eight distribution centers, two offices and five private label brands, to C&S Wholesale Grocers for approximately $1.9 billion in cash.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Instacart also is planning to extend pick-to-light to its Caper Carts smart carts, which will enable customers to have shelf labels flash for items — whether from their shopping list or an ad or coupon they see — directly from their cart. “We locations in August 2024.

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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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

After gaining valuable insights last year, 2022 will mark the year when virtually every major grocer finalises their e-grocery strategy. As the e-grocery industry matures, there is growing pressure to reduce order fulfilment times, which are increasingly demanded by customers, as they become more familiar with online grocery shopping.

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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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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Morrisons will utilise long-standing tech partner Ocado’s fulfilment centres to help drive its move to more in-store fulfilment, as the bricks-and-mortar grocer reassesses its online grocery operations. Steiner said that the reduced pressure on the Erith fulfilment centre would allow Ocado’s online grocery arm to grow. “As

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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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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

JUNE 25, 2024

The deal marks Grubhub’s first national grocery deal following its partnership with Mercato , a marketplace for independent grocers. Nearly 1,800 Albertsons Companies stores are joining the Grubhub Marketplace for delivery, including the Albertsons , Safeway , Vons , Jewel-Osco , Shaw’s , Acme and Tom Thumb banners. Albertsons Cos.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2024

In grocery we have five of the top 10 grocers. As an example, I live in Minneapolis; we have everyone from Aldi , which is a big national grocer, to Hy-Vee , which is a regional grocer, and Lunds & Byerlys , which is Minneapolis-based. And then how do you fulfill that in a really high-quality way?

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2023

While not officially a grocer, many Americans, especially those in rural areas, rely on the retailer for everyday essentials, including food (approximately 80% of Dollar General stores serve communities of 20,000 or fewer people). The retailer opened its 19,000th store in January 2023.)

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Inside Retail

MAY 10, 2021

A more agile, more intelligent business can move sooner to take advantage of emerging favourable trends, and more swiftly to avoid impending supply gaps, traps and flaws in evolving plans. Robotic solutions are required to increase productivity and drive down fulfilment costs. Does automation only benefit the major players?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As the new year approaches, retailers need to think about what their expansion plans will look like and how their stores can best serve customers. “I That means open air shopping centers have become even more attractive due to how they can make curbside and BOPIS fulfillment easier to handle.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Woodman’s Markets operates 230,000-square-foot stores with approximately 100,000 SKUs each, and like most grocers its inventory was hit hard by shoppers stocking up early in the pandemic. In addition to finding misplaced displays, the robots can detect pricing mistakes and sale price discrepancies.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

The massive ecommerce expansion is part of the retailer’s Never the Same Again transformation plan, designed to drive international growth through online channels under its recently established online, digital and data division MS2. Orders from the websites will be fulfilled through M&S’s established distribution network.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

An unintended, and likely under-planned-for, consequence for both retailers and their customers, however, is the erosion of the customer experience. Creating additional entry points to digital experiences immediately after purchase enables brands to capture additional customer data and deepen relationships even before the order is fulfilled.

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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 Gazette

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Sainsbury’s has proposed plans to cut 1,500 roles under its Next level Sainsbury’s strategy, which the grocer unveiled earlier this month as it looks to save £1bn over the next three years. It added that it had plans to open more sites in other parts of the country this year, creating more sites and jobs overall.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2023

Sustainability is a Process, Not a Single Action Sustainability isn’t a single action that a retailer should take, or something that only matters around Earth Day — it’s a long-term goal that requires regular investment, creative planning and steady adjustment. Most clients are looking at sustainability as a growth driver,” said Vashi.

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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. With a new online grocery service on the block, how worried should Ocado be about Tesco’s plans? What is Tesco ecommerce solution?

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Grocer Fulfillment Supermarket Marketing 111

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. Without a willingness to share data and become more strategic partners, the relationship-building process is an expensive one.

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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.

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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.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 21, 2024

A letter written to warehouse workers from the grocer’s online director Laura Burbedge claimed the lease on the building was set to expire in 2025, and that “while exploring contract negotiations with the landlord is possible… we know our rent costs at Enfield will increase”.

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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

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 recently confirmed plans to open four grocery stores on the East Coast. Since the pandemic, we have more than doubled our digital business in 2020. Albertsons Cos.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There are also several discount grocers, such as Food Lion, Lidl and Aldi. The retailer plans to open 11 new U.S. Now some of this demand is transitioning to stores, so Lululemon is planning to open dozens of new locations through the end of 2020 , as well as more than 70 seasonal shops, according to CEO Calvin McDonald.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2024

The German discounter and rival Lidl have seemingly shunned ecommerce, as the traditional grocers invest more and more into it. However, the move came after CEO Giles Hurley hinted it had “big plans” to extend its existing click-and-collect offer at the end of 2022. Aldi is not alone. A costly distraction?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2021

In order to fulfil customer demands and win their hearts, we, as retailers, need to understand and cater to their changing behaviour and trends. Unique to this mall will be the planned Asian-themed precincts offering retail, food, arts and culture from Japan, Thailand, China, Korea and Malaysia.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

The solution provider noted that grocers using its solution typically see a 3% sales increase, significant improvement in inventory turns and up to 25% less food waste — a result that would support the supermarket retailer’s sustainability goals. MIT Professor Dr. Yossi Sheffi , author of The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With the rapid uptick in online grocery shopping — and given that grocery is already a low-margin business — many grocers are looking for ways to make ecommerce work financially, so it should come as no surprise that marketplaces are increasingly popular in this category. A marketplace may be the way to get there.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

To make understanding the landscape and developing a plan less cumbersome, retailers can break the space down into two categories: third-party delivery services such as Uber , Instacart and DoorDash , and instant delivery providers like JOKR and Gopuff that are driving the same-day delivery space.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

in its third quarter as the online grocer returned to volume growth last month after the launch of its big price cut campaign. “We are delivering on this plan and have great momentum in the business.” Ocado sales jumped 7.2% We are making good progress, but we want to go even further.”

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M19 Retail

JULY 15, 2020

Introducing the Next Generation of Digital Commerce for Grocers. Mi9, a pioneer in grocery e-commerce, helped grocers create their first digital storefronts when online grocery was a novelty. Our mission is to help our customers fulfill their potential while future-proofing their businesses so they can Thryve in any environment.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 25, 2024

M&S M&S has been embarking on its store rotation plan to make sure it has “the right stores, in the right place, with the right space” and last year invested £480m into “bigger, better stores” with 20 new shops opened. This includes a £30m investment in its London store estate.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 14, 2022

For some, this means choosing better materials before production begins and for others, it’s changing how you package your products or fulfill your service. That said, once you do have an idea of the CO2 emissions your business is responsible for, you can begin building your sustainability plan into your strategic business plan. .

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