As grocers look to drive digital sales while protecting their margins, Ocado is reportedly adding more robotic arms in an effort to boost fulfillment efficiency. The United Kingdom-based, multinational grocery technology company is soon to increase the number of robotic arms at its Luton facility...
With some grocers scaling up their in-house fulfillment infrastructure and others pulling back, Hy-Vee is tapping automated warehouses to meet digital demand. Grocery fulfillment solutions provider Takeoff Technologies announced Thursday (Oct. 12) its partnership with the Midwestern grocery chain, which has 550 locations across eight states, to...
This week in grocery news, Kroger’s membership program succeeds at boosting delivery orders, Ahold Delhaize goes after omnichannel customers, and Hy-Vee joins other grocers in debuting its own retail media network. In a keynote interview Tuesday (Sept. 19) for the annual Groceryshop conference, Kroger chairman...
As grocers look to capture more of consumers’ day-to-day spending than just their food budgets, one upcoming store is going so far as to offer a five-hole putting green. Supermarket operator Jackson Mitchell Holdings announced Friday (Sept. 15) that, next summer, it will open a...
September 20, 2017
Could the secret to winning the grocery wars lie not in groceries, but in adjacent brands and services? That’s the strategy Hy-Vee is investing in, and the latest move along the trajectory has been a partnership between the Iowa-based supermarket chain and two unlikely comrades: OrangeTheory Fitness and Wahlburgers restaurants. According to Supermarket News, Hy-Vee […]
February 08, 2024
Supermarket chain Hy-Vee has integrated Instacart Fulfillment-as-a-Service (FaaS) into its owned and operated websites and apps. This move expands an existing partnership formed in 2018 in which Hy-Vee enabled its customers to access same-day delivery through the Instacart app, the companies said in a Thursday (Feb. 8) press release. Hy-Vee added the FaaS solution to meet the growing demand […]
September 22, 2020
Midwestern grocery chain Hy-Vee, Inc. has brought DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse “shop-in-shops” to the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The inaugural locations opened at the grocer’s Eagan and Brooklyn Park supermarkets, while...
June 14, 2020
Online grocery sales rose to a record $6.6 billion last month, up 65 percent from March, propelled by high demand from pandemic lockdowns, according to research firm Brick Meets Click....
August 15, 2019
Des Moines, Iowa-based supermarket chain Hy-Vee said credit card information for an undisclosed number of customers were exposed in a data breach, according to reports. “Hy-Vee takes the security of...
