This week in grocery, Albertsons adds nutrition tools to drive digital adoption, The Fresh Market adds prepared meals to its eCommerce site, and eGrocer Hungryroot’s artificial intelligence (AI) drives rapid growth. Albertsons Adds Nutritional Tracking Grocery giant Albertsons Companies, which operates more than 2,200 stores, announced...
As Brits try to cut back on spending and expenses amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and double-digit food inflation, U.K. grocers are under pressure to step up their discounting efforts to retain customers. As PYMNTS reported earlier this year, the country’s grocery inflation surpassed 17%...
Walmart is ending a nine-year test of pickup-and-delivery-only locations as the retail giant applies lessons from those sites across its broader retail footprint. In-store and curbside pickup, along with delivery, emerged as the most popular trends to come out of pandemic innovations in contactless ways...
Coffee and soft drink stalwart Keurig Dr Pepper added its voice Thursday (Oct. 27) to a growing debate over consumers’ trade-down behavior, saying much of the inflation-motivated turn towards private labels that grocers have been observing is overstated. Instead, the company told analysts, it thinks...
August 28, 2017
Just a few short months from the merger announcement, and as of this week, the deal is done: Amazon officially owns Whole Foods. To celebrate the news, grocery prices at Whole Foods are going down — quite an out of the gate change of direction for a brand that has become as synonymous with its […]
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...
July 13, 2017
Peapod was one of the earliest Internet startups to offer grocery delivery services, so it only makes sense that the company would strive to stay at the forefront of the...
May 03, 2019
The U.K. online delivery market has so far been dominated by Amazon, but a popular new player, Ocado, has warehouse robots that travel three times the speed of Amazon’s, according to a report by Bloomberg. Investment firm Peel Hunt said analysts James Lockyer and Damindu Jayaweera were “underwhelmed” by Amazon’s automation investment after they visited […]
June 19, 2017
After Amazon announced its $13.4 billion purchase of Whole Foods grocery stores last week, some are speculating that the supermarket chain’s cashiers might eventually be looking for new jobs, according to...
June 19, 2017
Whole Food customers are still deciding whether the news of Amazon’s acquisition of the natural and organic foods giant is a good or a bad thing. But for supermarkets Kroger, Supervalu,...
