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Synchrony’s CareCredit Credit Card Now Accepted at Albertsons Cos. Stores
Credit Cards // September 18, 2024

Synchrony’s CareCredit health and wellness credit card is now accepted for select items in nearly 2,200 Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, ACME, Shaw’s and Jewel-Osco stores. A new collaboration of Synchrony and food and drug retailer Albertsons Companies allows the card to be used for select health and wellness products at these stores, the companies said...

CFPB Report Shows Kroger, Dollar Tree and Others Charging Fees for Cash-Back Transactions
Consumer Finance // August 27, 2024

A new report released Tuesday (Aug. 27) from the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) sheds light on a growing trend: Major retailers are now imposing fees on customers seeking cash back through debit and prepaid card transactions. This shift comes as bank branch closures...

Kroger Promises Product Price Cuts If Albertsons Merger Approved
Retail // August 15, 2024

Kroger has reportedly doubled the value of price cuts it has committed to making if its merger with Albertsons goes through. The grocery store operator plans to lower prices by $1 billion, a figure that’s up from the $500 million in cuts it previously committed...

Albertsons Expands Instacart Partnership for Faster Pickup, Delivery Services
Delivery // July 31, 2024

Instacart and Albertsons have updated their partnership for faster grocery deliveries across the U.S. The companies announced in a Wednesday (July 31) news release the launch of Instacart pickup services and Albertsons delivery for Albertson brands, including Safeway, Shaw’s, Acme, Jewel-Osco, Randalls and Vons. In...

Interviews & Exclusives
Social Media Shoppers Are Minority but Highly Satisfied

August 03, 2023
Fourteen percent of consumers, representing approximately 36 million shoppers, buy items through social media. However, as illustrated in “Tracking the Digital Payments Takeover: Monetizing Social Media,” a PYMNTS and Amazon Web Services (AWS) collaboration, the ones that do rate their experience as highly satisfactory. An overall 87% of consumers said they are very or extremely […]

Chatbots Sizzle, SSN Numbers Fizzle And Grocery Shoppers Feel The Love

February 23, 2018
Sizzle Of the Week: Grocery Customers It’s a good week to be a grocery shopper in America – because, after all, who doesn’t like being pursued? The grocery business in...

Amazon Sizzles, Apple Fizzles And A High Profile Merger Fizzle Before It Starts

July 14, 2017
Some partnerships seemed destined, perhaps even written in the stars — Romeo & Juliet, Tony & Maria or (of course) Kimye are all good examples. Then there are the things that...

Quick Reads
Synchrony’s CareCredit Credit Card Now Accepted at Albertsons Cos. Stores

September 18, 2024
Synchrony’s CareCredit health and wellness credit card is now accepted for select items in nearly 2,200 Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, ACME, Shaw’s and Jewel-Osco stores. A new collaboration of Synchrony and food and drug retailer Albertsons Companies allows the card to be used for select health and wellness products at these stores, the companies said in a Wednesday (Sept. 18) press release emailed to PYMNTS. […]

Kroger Promises Product Price Cuts If Albertsons Merger Approved

August 15, 2024
Kroger has reportedly doubled the value of price cuts it has committed to making if its merger with Albertsons goes through. The grocery store operator plans to lower prices by...

Albertsons Expands Instacart Partnership for Faster Pickup, Delivery Services

July 31, 2024
Instacart and Albertsons have updated their partnership for faster grocery deliveries across the U.S. The companies announced in a Wednesday (July 31) news release the launch of Instacart pickup services...

Albertsons and Uber Expand Program Delivering Surplus Food to Nonprofits

June 04, 2024
Albertsons Companies and Uber Technologies have expanded a program in which they donate and deliver surplus food to local nonprofit organizations and food banks. After being piloted in Washington, D.C.,...