This week in grocery, Weis Markets and The Fresh Market leverage contextual commerce to drive loyalty and engagement, Dollar General looks to expand its produce selection, and Target expands its private-label food selection. Weis Markets, a grocery chain with nearly 200 East Coast locations, is...
Grocers are noticing that, to win shoppers’ loyalty, they have to offer self-service checkout options. The Context Grocers continue to add self-checkout capabilities. Last month, grocery chain Weis Markets, which operates about 200 stores across seven East Coast states, announced that it was implementing Toshiba Global...
The economy may be struggling, but consumers still want the convenience of eCommerce and tech-powered shopping. From sneakers to cars to groceries, shoppers showed us once again this week that they now expect — and appreciate — digital convenience and flexibility, recession be damned. In...
Even as some grocers turn to next-gen payment solutions, traditional self-checkout continues to expand. Most recently, grocery chain Weis Markets, which operates about 200 stores across seven East Coast states, announced that it was implementing Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions’ Elera platform chainwide in a move...
December 08, 2023
As Walmart is observing a reduction in customers’ grocery expenses due to the use of appetite-suppressing medications, Amazon is exploring opportunities with third-party grocery providers to enhance its presence in the grocery market. These actions come as both retailers, like everyone else, grapple not only with inflation but also with how it is influencing consumers’ […]
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. Rather than donning masks and following social distancing rules, shoppers have turned to grocery delivery services as 43 million customers shopped online in May, up […]
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...
