Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Save A Lot has partnered with Leevers Supermarkets to launch Ahorra Mucho , a new discount grocery store and innovation center in Aurora, Colo. that will feature unique Hispanic product assortments — part of the store’s mission of testing how new products and shoppers could strengthen shopper loyalty among this consumer set.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

He originally joined the supermarket retailer in 2004 as a grocery buyer and category manager: Its a brand I know well and look forward to caring for in my new role. Lee Nicholson I am looking forward to returning to Stop & Shop, which is where I started with this organization, said Nicholson in a statement.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Jeanette Fenske, director of stores at Woolworths Supermarket, was this year’s distinguished recipient of the Women Leaders in Retail scholarship, supported by the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) and Chief Executive Women. Inside Retail : You have a major role in one of Australia’s largest retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

19, 2025 for the chance to win $300,000 in cash and industry services, as well as the opportunity to be merchandised in Albertsons banner supermarkets. Independent brands with $3 to $10 million in net retail sales can apply through Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2025

Regional grocery chain Wegmans has partnered with Uber Eats to offer on-demand delivery from stores in Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Wegmans already works with DoorDash and recently expanded that partnership to additional supermarkets in the chain.

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Retail TouchPoints

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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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

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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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.

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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

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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“By combining in-store and online shopping experiences together with DSW, we are able to meet the unique needs of every shopper and make the shopping experience — whether in-store, online or both — seamless,” said Randy Edeker, Chairman, President and CEO of Hy-Vee in a statement. Hy-Vee, Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

Albertsons has completed its rollout of an inventory management platform specifically designed for the rapidly changing nature of fresh products, deploying the solution across its more than 2,000 supermarkets in just seven months’ time.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

California-based Vallarta Supermarkets is piloting autonomous robots in five locations in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles and San Bernadino counties to support employees by identifying in-store hazards. The retailer will test inventory management technology in a sixth store.

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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 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.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Preliminary supermarket competition concerns have been raised by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over Woolworths’ plan to acquire the Supa IGA in Karabar and its associated liquor store, Liquor Boss. Further reading: ACCC clears Woolworths’ acquisition of MyDeal.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 14, 2025

Additionally, the group , which recently witnessed its worst Christmas since 2015, has created the new position of chief supply chain officer on its executive team, to oversee all of its food and general merchandise operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Anybody that shops for Thanksgiving knows the fun that it is to be in the supermarket when it’s three, four times the amount of people that are normally there,” said Quezada sarcastically. Don’t be the person that I’m going to come home and complain to my roommates about later.” Unfortunately our COVID honeymoon is over.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

billion (Canadian) this year, the supermarket retailer will open 80 new stores under a variety of banners, with approximately 50 of these stores being hard discount locations. The retailer had opened three no name stores in Ontario in 2024 , promising consumers steep discounts. As part of Loblaws plans to invest $2.2

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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. in a blog post. A strong labor market has many retailers raising wages and improving benefits for workers at multiple levels.

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Retail Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

At 182,000 square-feet, the new H-E-B Plus is the largest store operated by the chain. supermarket is located at: 9238 N.LOOP 1604 WEST SAN ANTONIO, TX 78249-2577 Corporate #623 This is a largely positive development… Continue reading →

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Christine Foster, VP of Product Strategy & Media Operations, Kroger Precision Marketing/84.51° Lynn Power, Co-founder & CEO, MASAMI Alexis Hoopes, VP of Ecommerce & Direct to Consumer, Mattel Lina Sabic, Director of Store Operations, Pacsun Matt Ezyk, Director of Ecommerce, Pet Supermarket Luca Netz, CEO, Pudgy Penguins Ken, Romaniszyn, (..)

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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 Gazette

JANUARY 14, 2025

. “His superb know-how in leading big teams across expansive store estates, connecting physical and digital worlds to enhance the customer and colleague experience and passion for brilliant service will be invaluable as we enter the next stage of our ambitious transformation journey. We look forward to welcoming him to the business.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The solution provider will use the funding to scale deployment of autonomous urban supermarkets across Europe and the U.S., enter new geographies and develop its store and inventory management software application suite, StoreOS. New strategic investors include SAP SE, which will also help commercialize Trigo’s solution.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2025

GoodRx has streamlined the online prescription purchase process, launching the experience with employee-owned Midwestern supermarket retailer Hy-Vee.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 13, 2025

Related Story Issa Brothers eye $14bn float for EG Group 30/12/2024 x 8:34 AM It is understood that the petrol giant would float under the name of Cumberland Farms, an American c-store operator that it purchased six years ago. The Issas have also built up their EG empire across the pond to operate across 30 states.

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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

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

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

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

Southeastern Grocers­ — parent company of BI-LO, Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie — has launched an initial public offering of 8.9 One of the largest conventional supermarket companies in the U.S., The company has applied to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “SEGR.”.

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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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