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DECEMBER 11, 2024

Stop & Shop will deploy Savings Station kiosks in half its stores this month and complete a chainwide rollout to all 350+ supermarkets by the end of January 2025.

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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. As leading omnichannel grocery retailers in their markets, Ahold Delhaize’s U.S.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Supermarket retailer Giant Eagle will leverage the end-to-end platform from Grocery TV to scale up its Leap retail media network (RMN), activating rich, relevant content on in-store TVs at nearly 200 stores across Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland and Indiana.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Some 10,000 grocery workers in the greater Denver area went on strike against 77 of the regions 121 King Soopers stores on Feb. 6, according to the AP and other media outlets. In late January, Costco raised wages after the Teamsters union had threatened a strike; the two parties reached a tentative agreement that avoided a strike on Feb.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

food retail industry comprises nearly 63,000 grocery stores and supermarkets, which amounted to $765.98 Retailers can bring loyalty programs to the next level by adding proximity marketing based on in-store location throughout the journey. billion in sales in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2021

The technology has been used in categories such as beauty, CPG and accessories, primarily in department store environments. This pilot, expected to roll out to 200 stores by the end of June 2021, represents Perch’s largest deployment in the pet category and the supermarket vertical.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Price Chopper/Market 32 and Tops Markets have entered into a definitive merger agreement that will put nearly 300 supermarkets in the Northeast under a single company. The Price Chopper/Market 32 and Tops Markets businesses will retain their main offices in Schenectady and Williamsville, N.Y.,

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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. Instacart has been an important partner in our marketing strategy, helping us grow sales on their platform by 40% last year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2024

Citing “extremely low volumes” of customers using personal checks, Target will stop accepting checks for in-store payments on July 15, 2024, as reported in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and confirmed by Target. The retailer joins several supermarket retailers that have stopped accepting checks, including Aldi , Whole Foods Market and Lidl.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2024

“The number one driver of job satisfaction is an associate’s manager, and we believe that you — our front-line leaders — are the best in retail,” wrote Cedric Clark, EVP, Store Operations, Walmart U.S. A strong labor market has many retailers raising wages and improving benefits for workers at multiple levels. in a blog post.

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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 Gazette

JANUARY 13, 2025

Billionaire brothers Mohsin and Zuber Issa are preparing to take their petrol station empire, EG Group, public with a New York stock market listing potentially as early as this year. The US is EG Groups single largest market, with the group having acquired 800 convenience stores from US retailer Kroger back in 2018 for 1.7bn.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Following a 15 -store pilot project that kicked off in May 2023 , SpartanNash has deployed Tally, an autonomous inventory robot, in 60 more company-operated stores across the Midwest. The retailer operates 144 supermarkets, mostly under the Family Fare, Martin’s Super Markets and D&W Fresh Market banners.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The Tally robots from Simbe will roam the aisles of five Price Chopper/Market 32 and five Tops Friendly Markets stores through January 2025, when Northeast Grocery will evaluate the pilot results to determine next steps that could include expanding the robots’ deployment to other supermarkets.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Here are some examples covering the spectrum of diversification, from a continuist perspective to more disruptive cases: In July 2021, John Lewis revealed plans to become a private landlord by building 10,000 new homes over the next 10 years on land currently used as car parks and above Waitrose supermarkets across the UK.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Canseco’s Market , Harps Foods and Price Chopper have joined the 600+ retail banners using Instacart Storefront to support their ecommerce sites. 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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hy-Vee will leverage Instacart ’s Fulfillment as a Service (FaaS) to integrate same-day delivery fulfillment capabilities into its owned and operated websites and apps. New York City’s Fairway Market partnered with Instacart in December 2023 , joining Kroger , Aldi and Walmart.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

Canada-based convenience store giant Alimentation Couche-Tard will continue its U.S. expansion with the acquisition of the 270 -store GetGo Café + Markets chain from Giant Eagle. the Japanese company that operates more than 80,000 7-Eleven convenience stores as well as other retail banners.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Not-for-profit store operator Community Enterprise Queensland (CEQ) is the sole grocery and retail provider for many remote communities located across northern Queensland and the Torres Strait Islands. These stores have a big part to play in that,” he said.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, Alibaba has put the planned IPO for its Freshippo supermarket division on hold, according to multiple media reports. Freshippo had opened 12 new supermarkets in eight Chinese cities and beefed up its backend operations in June 2023 , moves many analysts saw as preparation for the IPO.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Physical retail remains an important part of our business, and we’re continuing to invest in growing our grocery stores business , which spans Amazon Fresh , Whole Foods Market , Amazon Go and third-party partnerships.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

Amazon will expand its Amazon One palm payment technology to all 500+ Whole Foods Market stores by the end of 2023. including 200 Whole Foods supermarkets, and have clocked more than 3 million uses to date.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

will reveal data on how consumers’ in-store shopping behaviors will change and evolve through Q4, including in-demand categories, top-performing retailers, and the challenges and opportunities that exist for all merchants during the season. In the key grocery category, Placer.ai

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

Save A Lot has relicensed its 18 remaining corporate-owned supermarkets, completing its strategy of shifting ownership and operations of all locations to independent licensed ownership.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Kroger will boost the number of local products on its shelves by 10% following the supermarket giant’s planned merger with Albertsons , which is expected to close in early 2024. The increase will add at least 30 new local products in each store. in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Value supermarket retailer Grocery Outlet will acquire United Grocery Outlet , a 40 -store chain with a similar business model, to gain a presence in the Southeast. operates more than 460 stores in nine Western and Mid-Atlantic states. Grocery Outlet, based in Emeryville, Calif.,

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

After opening a net 23 new stores in 2023 for a total of over 400 locations, Sprouts Farmers Market plans to open 35 new locations this year, all in its new smaller-store format. Sprouts committed to shrinking its stores’ square footage by 23% as a way to reduce environmental impact in June 2023. Q4 net sales of $1.7

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Amazon has paused expansion of its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and Amazon Go checkout-free convenience stores, CEO Andy Jassy told investors on an earnings call. It’s a very large market segment, and there’s a lot of frequency in how consumers shop for grocery.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

Schnuck Markets has extended its partnership with Instacart to introduce Caper Carts, which use AI and computer vision to automatically identify items shoppers put into them, allowing shoppers to then skip the line and check out using the cart technology. The supermarket retailer will roll out the smart carts at select St.

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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. Retailers in this channel have been replaced by cash-and-carry concepts in some markets.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The result is that, over time, the shelves of modern supermarkets have become a telling, yet mismatched portrait of history — a story of what’s worked forever and what…well, hasn’t. However, having so much brand packaging competing for attention in a single grocery store makes it hard to craft a cohesive and elevated brand experience.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

The market is demanding it, competitors are one step ahead, and they have to catch up,” Walker told Inside Retail. We no longer, as a general rule, expect supermarkets to be physical-only entities. So this is welcome, but it is a little bit of a catch-up play. Globally, we are undergoing great consumer transformation.

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