Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In July 2024 , supermarket retailer Hy-Vee partnered with VusionGroup to install ESLs in more than 230 stores, following close on the heels of Walmart s June 2024 decision to roll out the solution providers digital shelf labels chainwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The retailer operates 144 supermarkets, mostly under the Family Fare, Martin’s Super Markets and D&W Fresh Market banners. The robots from Simbe support the solution provider’s Store Intelligence platform, providing real-time inventory insights to better inform product stocking, ordering, merchandising and ecommerce fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

The solution features built-in catalog services and automated marketing campaigns as well as flexible fulfillment solutions that allow retailers to choose the model that works best for their stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2024

By the end of August 2024, Albertsons will offer free buy online, pick up in-store services at more than 2,000 supermarkets to Instacart shoppers. Additionally, customers of Haggen Food & Pharmacy , operating across Washington State, can now use Instacart for same-day delivery orders.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2024

While 7-Eleven is at the forefront of inventive uses for vision AI in the convenience retail market, we are also observing interest and adoption of vision AI for supermarket retailers for resource reallocation, to mirror each store’s unique ebb and flow of operations and foot traffic throughout the day.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 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. . Kroger outlined plans to deliver total shareholder returns of 8% to 10% in 2021 at its virtual Investor Day, held March 31, 2021. on March 22.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

We no longer, as a general rule, expect supermarkets to be physical-only entities. Coles have to drive e-commerce customer experience, supply chain automation, store operations optimisation … and in some cases, they’re on the backfoot because some of their store fit outs are pretty old,” he said. “It’s

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2023

parent company of the Loblaws supermarket chain, will invest $2 billion Canadian (approximately $1.49 billion ) to improve its network of 2,500 stores in 2023. These capital investments will include 38 new and/or relocated stores and conversions or renovations to nearly 600 more. Loblaw Companies Ltd.,

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Over the last few months, DoorDash has been expanding to new verticals and growing its supermarket footprint. Ahold Delhaize USA partnered with DoorDash for on-demand deliveries from its five East Coast supermarket banners in February 2024.

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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 combines physical and digital commerce in its 300+ stores throughout the country.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Price Chopper/Market 32 has expanded its partnership with fresh grocery platform Invafresh , which already helps the 131-store supermarket chain prevent 20 tons of food from being wasted each week. Supermarket retailer Weis Markets also began working with Invafresh in August 2022.

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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. Less than a year later, the UK arm filed for administration and all the stores were eventually shut. and abroad. In 2017, the U.S. Most retailers in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2024

Michaels will expand same-day delivery from its 1,200+ stores through new partnerships with DoorDash and Uber Eats. Additionally, Save a Lot now has 400 of its supermarkets live on the DoorDash Marketplace, offering deliveries in under one hour, on average.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Paul area since 1983, offering naturally raised meats, locally sourced organic produce, hard-to-find specialty products, and more from all 11 locations; Mar-Val Food Stores : A family-owned grocer focused on supporting rural communities across California, Mar-Val Food Stores offers delivery from its nine locations; Geissler’s Supermarket : A family-owned (..)

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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. Four of those new stores will be in the greater Phoenix area, representing a new market for Aldi , as well as its first locations in Arizona.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In March 2022 Amazon announced the closure of 68 brick-and-mortar stores across multiple formats, and in February 2023 CEO Andy Jassy revealed that the company would temporarily halt expansion of its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and Amazon Go convenience stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2023

The Aldi Express service is now available from more than 2,100 Aldi supermarket locations across the U.S. “We We know our customers live hectic lives, and sometimes that means they don’t have time to make it to the grocery store — even for a quick trip,” said Scott Patton, VP of National Buying at Aldi in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Uber Eats expanded ordering hours and live order tracking in July 2022 ; and.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Improving Customer Satisfaction and Building Loyalty Customer satisfaction and product availability go hand in hand: customers are happy if stores have what they want, when they want. consumers would question their loyalty to a supermarket if out-of-stocks became a regular occurrence, the Retail Insight survey suggests.

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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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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The first store opened at Columbus Boulevard and the second in Doylestown, Pa. At the opening of the 46,000-square-foot Columbus Boulevard store on December 6, GIANT, part of Ahold Delhaize USA, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The store operates from 6 a.m.

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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 TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2020

In April, Sam’s Club sister retailer Walmart added specific pickup times for at-risk shoppers at 2,400 stores. Discount supermarket Aldi recently expanded its curbside pickup service to 600 stores. Curbside pickup has become a highly desired offering in retail since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2021

The Alert Innovation Academy begins with training on the Alphabot system, an integral part of the Novastore supermarket concept , which uses automated retrieval of consumer packaged goods while providing customers with the ability to choose fresh items such as produce, meat, baked goods and flowers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2020

RTP: If the ‘final frontier’ of online grocery shopping has been reached, what will be some likely impacts on supermarkets? Wright: Grocery retailers will need to think about the range of assortment they offer in a store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2020

Interest in private label products, from supermarket-branded foods to Amazon Basics hard goods, have been on the rise for the past several years. store count increased from 244,000 to 270,000. COVID-19 Creates The Foundation For Private Label Renaissance. over the past 10 years , even as the U.S.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Trax is enabling its retailer customers to leverage and thereby optimise their in-store execution strategy and product availability. “We With Trax data and insights, customers gain granular, SKU-level visibility to changing store conditions and this is enabled by our technology platform based on computer vision and machine learning. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2020

everyone saw its immediate impact on supermarket supply chains: shelves emptied by consumers frantically stockpiling toilet paper, cleaning products and shelf-stable staples like rice and canned beans. When the coronavirus pandemic first hit the U.S.,

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

To prepare for the evolution and establish a path to where a retailer wants to be in the next decade, there are three natural questions supermarkets need to ask themselves: • How well can existing e-commerce platforms handle any future surge in business? • How can I ensure operational efficiency as order volume ­multiplies?

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The multifaceted picture that emerged was intended to serve as a starting point for ongoing dialogue about the evolution of the supermarket channel, and highlight opportunities to forge dynamic new partnerships. Sarasin noted that supermarket operators and CPG suppliers are already at work leveraging the power of technology.

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Mass Relators

AUGUST 9, 2023

” Muller noted that the company continues to work to gear its online fulfillment capabilities to support same-day delivery. effective March 2024, utilizing our existing Stop & Shop store network and partners to service customers in this catchment area going forward.” In aggregate, e-commerce penetration in the U.S.

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Shopper Motion

MARCH 10, 2020

is usually done manually At the end of the day, you would be taking away staff members that could be used elsewhere to fulfill a role that is demanding, long, and prone to human errors. Some retailers have taken to installing an infrared sensor at the store entrance to count visits. dwell time, waiting time, etc.)

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Discount and value retailers Schwarz Group (with its Lidl and Kaufland banners), Aldi and Costco also remained in the Top 10 this year, as did international supermarket operators Carrefour and Ahold Delhaize and furniture giant IKEA. 5 spot in 2021 to 13 th this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2020

In interviews with The Rainbow Group , a shopping center company and department store in China, they reported that they quickly upgraded their digital capacity, rebranded the company as a digital-first brand and changed their go-to-market strategy, all in 60 days.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2023

Midwestern supermarket retailer Hy-Vee has partnered with Uber to add delivery services from 260 of its grocery and liquor storefronts. The two companies are spotlighting their new deal with a sweepstakes offering tickets to the 2023 NFL Kickoff on Sept.

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Mass Relators

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Kroger is the nation’s top traditional grocery store operator, with almost 2,800 food stores operating under about 20 different banners, including Kroger, Ralphs, Dillons, Smith’s, King Soopers, Fry’s, QFC, City Market, Owen’s, Jay C, Pay Less, Baker’s, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, Pick ‘n Save, Metro Market, Mariano’s, Fred Meyer and Food 4 Less.

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