This week in restaurants, eateries expand to grocery stores, add ghost kitchens and face regulations. Throughout the last couple of years, restaurants have been seizing on the opportunity to attract new customers in highly trafficked areas by teaming up with grocers to offer in-store locations....
Today in the connected economy, DoorDash continues a string of partnerships with retailers outside the restaurant sphere by teaming up with Sprouts Farmers Market. Also, Lowe’s introduces its virtual store concept, and Spotify makes its bibliophile customers happy by adding audiobooks to its offerings. DoorDash...
Grocery tech firm Instacart said it has expanded its Electronic Benefits Transfer and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (EBT, SNAP) offering to 10 new states. According to a Monday (July 25) news release, the expansion covers the states of Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico,...
In a move to compete with grocers’ direct delivery offerings, Instacart has announced a new subscription service, Instacart+, an updated version of its previous Instacart Express program with a new focus on family shopping. On Wednesday (June 15), the grocery aggregator announced the launch of...
July 25, 2022
Grocery tech firm Instacart said it has expanded its Electronic Benefits Transfer and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (EBT, SNAP) offering to 10 new states. According to a Monday (July 25) news release, the expansion covers the states of Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, letting EBT SNAP users purchase […]
November 15, 2017
A report from Goldman Sachs warns that as more consumers get comfortable shopping for groceries online, the already-competitive supermarket backdrop might get even worse for grocers in the future. Analyst...
July 12, 2017
Albertsons still wants to go public, two years after first mulling and tabling an initial public offering, Bloomberg reports. Yet once again, the grocer is going to have to put...
June 16, 2017
One-day shipping? Ain’t nobody got time for that. Amazon Prime is now introducing one- and two-hour delivery of Amazon goods, as well as healthy and organic foods from Sprouts Farmers...
