Consumers prefer to pick up their restaurant meals, but where they purchase them is no longer as clear-cut. Kroger has been crowned the nation’s top sushi seller, with consumers purchasing more than 40 million pieces from the grocery chain per year. The top title comes as Kroger...
This week in grocery, Amazon backs an online grocery startup, Giant leverages video and self-checkout evolves. In Amazon’s ongoing efforts to grow its share of perishables, the company has invested in a direct-to-consumer (D2C) company in India, FreshToHome, which sells meat and fish online to delivery to consumers’...
Ahold Delhaize is combating inflation-related belt-tightening by leveraging customer data to offer targeted rewards. The multinational grocery giant, parent of a range of well-known supermarket chains, spoke to the success of these efforts on a call with analysts Wednesday (Feb. 15), discussing the company’s fourth-quarter...
This year, Ahold Delhaize is seeing holiday shoppers flock to online grocery like never before. The U.S. arm of the grocer, which encompasses thousands of stores across brands such as Giant, Food Lion and Stop & Shop as well as digital brands Peapod and FreshDirect, is seeing...
December 23, 2022
This year, Ahold Delhaize is seeing holiday shoppers flock to online grocery like never before. The U.S. arm of the grocer, which encompasses thousands of stores across brands such as Giant, Food Lion and Stop & Shop as well as digital brands Peapod and FreshDirect, is seeing an increase in consumers’ expectations of digital convenience when it […]
November 07, 2024
Grocery giant Ahold Delhaize saw quarterly sales dip amid product recalls and store closures. The company’s quarterly earnings, released Thursday (Nov. 7), showed net sales in the U.S. of $14.49 billion, a 0.1% decrease, 1% at the actual exchange rate. Impacting the company — whose brands include Giant and Food Lion — were its divestment of FreshDirect last […]
March 17, 2022
Funds continue to pour in for ultrafast grocery in spite of the economic challenges of the model. On Thursday (March 17), Turkish 10-minute grocery delivery company Getir announced that it...
October 15, 2019
Giant Food has announced it has rebranded its delivery service. Giant Delivers, formerly known as Peapod by Giant, is now available to over six million shoppers living in over 300...
February 03, 2016
In the next phase of an evolution that is attempting to make consumers able to connect with their groceries literally anyplace on Earth, D.C.’s Metro and Peapod will be partnering...
