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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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. Morrisons CEO Rami Baitiéh said the change was driven by rising demand for the supermarket’s online offering.

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Inside Retail

JULY 13, 2021

Woolworths has announced plans for a new online fulfilment centre in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, aiming to better serve the region spanning from Engadine to Kurnell – adding a further 15,000 potential customers to its home delivery and direct-to-boot pick up offers. An artist’s render of the site. Source: Supplied.

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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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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Woolworths has announced its intention to build a 22,000sqm online fulfilment centre located in Auburn, Sydney, which will facilitate up to 50,000 online orders per week. Auburn and our other fulfilment centres play important roles complementing the work of our store teams.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2021

and the company plans to have nationwide coverage by the end of this year. 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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

And it doesn’t plan to stop there. On Monday, the platform announced a partnership with supermarket giant Woolworths , which will see over 1200 products from its Metro stores in Sydney and Melbourne available to order on the Uber Eats app from next week. We’re in discussions with a number of big retailers across verticals.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Discount supermarket chain Aldi is continuing its aggressive expansion across the U.S., with plans to add approximately 150 new stores to a fleet that already includes 2,100 locations in 37 states. Aldi also plans to increase its number of locations offering curbside pickup from 1,200 to 1,500 by the end of 2022. by store count.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ahold Delhaize USA will make the DoorDash on-demand grocery delivery marketplace available across its five supermarket banners: Food Lion, Hannaford, Giant Food, The Giant Company and Stop & Shop. In June 2023 a top DoorDash exec discussed the company’s plans to move beyond restaurant deliveries to become the “local commerce company.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

very intentionally draws its design and merchandising inspiration from supermarkets rather than pharmacies. Joyleaf, which opened in late 2023, is organized and merchandised by type of product rather than by brand: all the edibles, for example, are grouped together as a category, as they would be in a supermarket.

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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

JUNE 30, 2023

Alibaba has opened 12 new Freshippo supermarkets in eight Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Freshippo also has established strategic partnerships with 13 global retail groups, international brands, global associations and consulting companies in Shanghai and announced plans to set up eight purchasing centers globally.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2023

parent company of the Loblaws supermarket chain, will invest $2 billion Canadian (approximately $1.49 Bank, who will bring 30 years of experience in retail operations and supply chain, is the outgoing CEO of Salling Group A/S , a 1,700 -store multi-banner supermarket chain based in Denmark. Loblaw Companies Ltd.,

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 26, 2024

The supermarket chain’s net profit grew 1.8 Supermarket revenue increased 6.2 Coles ended the fiscal year with 856 supermarkets after completing 50 store renewals, opening 12 new stores, and closing two. ” In the first eight weeks of the current fiscal year, supermarket sales jumped 3.7 per cent to $1.12

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new supermarket concept Addie’s , a self-described “drive-up grocer,” has opened its first store in Norwood, Mass., fueled by $10.1 million in seed funding it recently received from Rose Park Advisors. “The traditional business model of in-store shopping makes serving convenience-focused shoppers highly challenging.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has done little to slow Aldi ’s growth: the low-price supermarket chain has opened its 2,000 U.S. store, and it plans to open 70 more brick-and-mortar locations in 2020. In May 2020, Aldi announced its plans to expand curbside pickup to 600 stores in 35 states by the end of July. “As in a statement.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2021

An exclusively online supermarket is rolling out across metro Sydney and Melbourne this month to capitalise on the demand for quick and convenient grocery delivery. It is also planning to work closely with local vendors and provodores to access fresh produce. 15-minute delivery . 15-minute delivery .

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2025

Even though more than half ( 56% ) of retailers surveyed by KPMG completed a major payments modernization program within the past year, even more 83% already are modernizing their payment infrastructure, or are planning to do so in the new future.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2022

Instacart has moved closer to a planned IPO after confidentially submitting a draft registration statement with the SEC on May 11, 2022, although specific details were not revealed. Among the offerings is its upgraded fulfillment solution, Carrot Warehouses.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Based on customer insights and market trends, Swisslog, as an industry leader with successful micro fulfilment centres (MFCs) and e-grocery fulfilment centres (EFCs) operating across the globe, has identified five trends that will shape e-grocery fulfilment this year. E-grocery orders get smaller and more frequent. .

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Deliveroo has partnered with Singaporean supermarket chain Sheng Siong, bringing more than 5000 grocery essentials, including fresh produce, pantry essentials and household goods, onto the platform. This allows riders to reach the nearest store within our hyper-local network of stores and fulfilment hubs.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2021

Kroger outlined plans to deliver total shareholder returns of 8% to 10% in 2021 at its virtual Investor Day, held March 31, 2021. Leadership pointed to two core areas for driving that growth: the fresh food segment and digital, which was described as “a growth engine” for the supermarket retailer, one of the nation’s biggest. .

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

With spur-of-the-moment “I’ll just run in to grab something” shopping trips becoming less frequent and online ordering on the rise, shoppers are making plans and orienting their schedules based on order delivery timelines to a degree that seemed unthinkable a year ago. Adjust to Return Reluctance. Offer More Order Pickup Flexibility.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Potential Australian examples Coles and Woolworths: Both major Australian supermarkets have been exploring various technologies, including robotic cleaning and automated inventory management. The adoption of customer-facing robots might follow as a natural extension of these back-end applications.

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2022

At the time, founder Rob Adams told SmartCompany the startup planned to open up to 30 grocery fulfillment centres by the end of the year. Send was founded in early 2021 and by August last year, had secured a $3.1 million capital raise, which included backing from German VC Cherry Ventures and New York investor FJ Lab.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2024

Additionally, Save a Lot now has 400 of its supermarkets live on the DoorDash Marketplace, offering deliveries in under one hour, on average. The retailer plans to support SNAP/EBT payment capabilities on DoorDash later this year for on-demand delivery of SNAP-eligible groceries.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

We no longer, as a general rule, expect supermarkets to be physical-only entities. And in the final phase, Coles plans to differentiate the offer “through tech enablement and end-to-end customer experience”. Hassing said the retailer is on track with the development of its customer fulfilment centres (CFCs) in Melbourne and Sydney.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 16, 2024

Woolworths has revealed plans for its first Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC) in Western Australia to meet the growing demand for online orders among Pearth’s population. million facility at Mirrabooka, Perth North, obtained state planning clearance last week.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Since the start of the pandemic, there has been an unprecedented spike in online traffic for retailers — particularly for supermarkets and FMCG suppliers, as consumers look to receive the items they need in the safest possible way. Turning Data Into Valuable Insights. Data Analytics in Action.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Mike Ashley-controlled retail empire said the fashion business had “consistently missed its business plan targets and, notwithstanding support from the group, has continued to make material losses”. Farfetch Farfetch was sold to South Korean ecommerce giant Coupang at the start of February through a pre-pack administration deal.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Even the most commoditized of traditional shopping experiences — the supermarket — always has counters for specialty items where people can interact with staff to get exactly what they want. The story can be unique to your brand and can guide shoppers in an arc from indecision or curiosity through an emotionally fulfilling experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2023

The selection includes wines priced from $10 per bottle to more than $1,000 , with plans to expand the assortment even further. Safeway and Albertsons have launched Vine & Cellar , a curated collection of wines available for sale online with direct shipping to customers in California.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2021

But it turned out that the emporium of toys, games and fun could not in the end withstand the relentless competition and margin hits from the internet and supermarket retailers. and abroad. In 2017, the U.S. business collapsed, saddled with debt. Since then, there have been a few meager efforts to make a comeback but they fizzled out quickly.

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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.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

During the Covid-19 pandemic, grocers managed an unprecedented level of online orders for fulfilment via delivery and click-and-collect. The challenges during this time were related mostly to a lack of delivery slots and product and labour shortages, which impacted the ability to fulfil orders in a timely manner (or at all). .

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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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Supermarkets are some of the biggest retail businesses in the world, so it’s no surprise they are at the forefront of industry trends and innovation. Brad Banducci, CEO of Australian supermarket giant Woolworths for the past seven years, is a big proponent of using technology to improve operations.

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