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• 4 European countries in top 10 online grocery markets by 2023 - Ten leading global online grocery markets are predicted to generate combined sales of almost 200 billion euros, at an annual rate of 20 percent, by 2023. And four of them are from Europe. The United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain are predicted to have the highest online grocery market sizes Continue reading
  Topics: predicted, online, grow, growth, markets, worth, share, grocery, billion, countries, euros, european, market.
• Aeon invests in US grocery platform Boxed - Japanese retail group Aeon has lead a US$111 million funding round in US bulk grocery delivery business Boxed.
  Topics: platform, grocery, transformationour, invests, national, various, round, funding, group, us111, aeon, boxed, latest.
• Aldi launches two-hour delivery in London - Aldi has rolled out two-hour delivery for its entire range of groceries to 20,000 postcodes across London. It’s the first time the German grocery discounter enables customers to order groceries online and then get them delivered at their homes. Aldi won’t handle the delivery all by itself. It has partnered Continue reading
  Topics: twohour, isnt, aldi, groceries, prices, grocery, london, launches, euros, online, delivery, tesco.
• Alibaba and Amazon move over, we visited JD’s connected grocery store in China - The arms race to build the future of grocery stores is heating up in China. To no one’s surprise, the main contestants are the country’s e-commerce titans Alibaba and JD.com, which are turning offline for growth. Online retail has flourished in China, but it still accounts for less than 20 percent of the nation’s overall consumption, according […]
  Topics: shop, amazon, online, offline, help, china, connected, visited, grocery, 7fresh, jd, jds, alibaba, store, hema.
• Amazon India partners with Future Retail - Amazon India has partnered with the nation’s second-largest retail chain to expand its sales in there.
  Topics: products, amazon, retail, physical, retails, future, india, sales, services, grocery, partners.
• Amazon axes $14.99 Amazon Fresh fee, making grocery delivery free for Prime members to boost use - Amazon is turning up the heat once again in the world of groceries, and specifically grocery delivery, to make its services more enticing in the face of competition from Walmart, as well as a host of delivery companies like Postmates. Today, the company announced that it would make Amazon Fresh free to use for Prime […]
  Topics: making, fee, customers, amazon, foods, prime, free, grocery, service, fresh, techcrunch, members, delivery.
• Amazon expands use of SNAP benefits for online grocery to 11 more states - Amazon customers in nearly a dozen more U.S. states are now able to use their SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits to purchase groceries online, the retailer announced on Thursday. The news represents a significant expansion of a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pilot program introduced in 2019 that aimed to open up online grocery shopping […]
  Topics: usda, groceries, virginia, states, benefits, snap, pilot, program, techcrunch, grocery, online, amazon, expands.
• Amazon launches grocery pickup at select Whole Foods - Amazon today is continuing to make good on its Whole Foods acquisition by introducing a new grocery pickup service at select Whole Foods locations in the U.S. The service, which is available only to Prime members, will initially be available at stores in Sacramento and Virginia Beach, but will expand to more cities through the […]
  Topics: delivery, launches, grocery, foods, alexa, prime, service, pickup, order, shopping, customers, amazon, select.
• Amazon offers same-day grocery delivery in the UK - Amazon now offers its grocery delivery service Amazon Fresh in the United Kingdom free with Prime. Members can do their weekly shopping and choose from a selection of products. In over 40 postcodes in the South East, members can even place orders before 9pm and have them delivered same-day. And… Continue reading
  Topics: prime, fresh, offers, uk, delivery, choose, free, sameday, united, amazon, grocery, members.
• Amazon opens its first Amazon Fresh physical grocery store, in LA - The shift to online shopping has accelerated in the COVID-19 pandemic, but today Amazon made a bold move that underscores its belief that physical stores will remain a key component of how consumers shop. In the Los Angeles neighborhood of Woodland Hills, the e-commerce giant today opened its first Amazon Fresh supermarket. This is the […]
  Topics: shopping, la, including, opens, fresh, amazon, physical, retail, foods, grocery, techcrunch, stores, store.
• Amazon plots new grocery offering - E-commerce giant Amazon is plotting a new grocery business in the US, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
  Topics: street, grocery, plots, retail, offering, supermarket, giant, source, stores, walmart, wall, told, amazon.
• Amazon puts new online grocery shoppers on a waitlist - Amazon is putting new online grocery customers on a waitlist amid rising demand for its grocery pickup and delivery services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The retailer on Monday announced it will ask new Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market delivery and pickup customers to sign up for a waitlist if they’re interested in either […]
  Topics: demand, stores, waitlist, store, foods, grocery, amazon, delivery, online, customers, puts, techcrunch, shoppers, working.
• Amazon to open its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in 2020 - Amazon is opening its first non-Whole Foods grocery store in the LA neighborhood of Woodland Hills, the retailer today confirmed. The news of the new store was first reported by CNET, which spotted several job postings referencing the location, including those for a zone leader, grocery associates and a food service associate. Unlike Amazon’s growing […]
  Topics: nonwhole, techcrunch, reported, hills, amazon, store, food, woodland, foods, open, grocery, stores, locations.
• AmazonFresh expands to three key markets: Houston, Minneapolis and Phoenix - AmazonFresh, one of two main grocery delivery services Amazon operates, is expanding to new markets, the retailer announced this morning. The service will now be available to Prime members in Houston, Minneapolis and Phoenix. Notably, this list includes a test market for Walmart’s new grocery subscription service, Delivery Unlimited; Target’s corporate headquarters; and an early […]
  Topics: delivery, markets, prime, walmarts, techcrunch, grocery, members, online, phoenix, service, houston, available, key, minneapolis, amazonfresh, expands.
• China’s tech firms rush to deliver solutions for grocery shopping - Nearly all of China’s largest internet firms have established a presence in online grocery. Just this week, news arrived that Alibaba co-led the $196 million C3 funding round of Nice Tuan, the two-year-old grocery group-buying firm’s fourth round year to date. People in China shop online for almost everything, including groceries. At first, grocery e-commerce […]
  Topics: chinas, techcrunch, solutions, shopping, deliver, groupbuying, ecommerce, online, normally, delivery, shoppers, rush, orders, grocery, model, tech, group, firms.
• Chinese giants dominate Asia’s online grocery market - China’s two e-commerce giants are driving the most growth in Asia’s online grocery market according to a new report from international researcher IGD.
  Topics: dominate, suppliers, partnerships, growth, market, chinese, giants, retailers, online, asia, grocery, asias, value, billion.
• DST Global pumps $35 million into Asian e-grocer Weee! - Coronavirus stay-home orders have sparked an unprecedented demand for grocery delivery around the world. Now investors are clamoring to bet on promising players in the field. That includes DST Global, the investment firm helmed by Israeli-Russian billionaire Yuri Milner. Most recently, it poured $35 million into Weee!, a California-based startup that from its own warehouses […]
  Topics: global, egrocer, techcrunch, product, asian, grocery, valuation, weee, dst, startup, delivery, pumps, million, revenue.
• Digital payments in India rise as consumers stay home - Digital payments in India have risen by 10 per cent over the last month, despite a 30-per-cent decline in online travel spending.
  Topics: india, stay, cent, payments, sectors, utility, spending, platform, consumers, grocery, digital, travel, razorpay, rise.
• DoorDash expands with on-demand grocery delivery - DoorDash is announcing that customers can now order groceries through the DoorDash app from partners including Smart & Final, Meijer and Fresh Thyme. Additional stores like Hy-Vee and Gristedes/D’Agnostino are supposed to be added in the next few weeks. Through these partnerships, DoorDash says it has a delivery footprint covering 75 million Americans in markets […]
  Topics: doordash, delivery, stores, ondemand, customers, offers, expands, grocery, service, hannon, techcrunch, groceries, smart.
• DoorDash now delivers from over 1,800 convenience stores nationwide - DoorDash announced today it’s expanding beyond food to also deliver from convenience stores, like 7-Eleven, Wawa, Circle K, Casey’s General Store and others. The service is partnering with more than 1,800 convenience store locations across the U.S. in order to provide easy access to household essentials like toilet paper, cleaning supplies and over-the-counter medicine, as […]
  Topics: techcrunch, store, stores, delivers, convenience, items, nationwide, grocery, household, doordash, orders, delivery, order.
• Ecommerce Product Releases: August 15, 2018 - Here is a list of product releases and updates for August from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on business pages, interactive video, onsite abandonment, cybersecurity, WordPress integration, and holiday shipping rates
  Topics: product, pickup, online, grocery, shipworks, facebook, releases, wordpress, ecommerce, store, announced, million.
• Everli partners with Kaufland in Poland - Everli, the Italian ecommerce marketplace formerly known as Supermercato24, has announced a partnership with Kaufland in Poland. The partnership allows people from 17 cities in Poland to order groceries from a Kaufland store through the Everli website or app. The partnership has started today and enables customers from supermarket chain… Continue reading
  Topics: products, grocery, supermercato24, service, kaufland, everli, poland, solution, partners, partnership, role.
• Farmstead, a grocery startup with a focus on software, raises $7.9M - Farmstead, a startup that operates an online grocery business while also selling software to other grocers, is announcing that it has raised $7.9 million in Series A funding. While there’s been plenty of demand for grocery delivery this year, the major players like Instacart are making purchases and deliveries from existing supermarkets. Farmstead co-founder and […]
  Topics: elankumaran, online, fact, techcrunch, software, company, raises, million, 79m, warehouse, grocery, delivery, farmstead, startup, focus.
• Foodpanda in the Philippines expands into groceries - Food-delivery service Foodpanda in the Philippines has expanded into grocery deliveries.
  Topics: grocery, users, groceries, function, customers, shops, foodpanda, essentials, works, expands, philippines, everyday, service.
• From farm to phone: A paradigm shift in grocery - Grocery margins will always be razor thin, and the difference between a profitable and unprofitable grocer is often just cents on the dollar.
  Topics: faster, online, instacart, model, techcrunch, phone, paradigm, fulfillment, farm, cfcs, customers, stores, kroger, grocery, shift.
• Grocery delivery apps see record downloads amid coronavirus outbreak - As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the U.S., grocery delivery apps have begun seeing record numbers of daily downloads, according to new data from app store intelligence firm Apptopia. On Sunday, online grocery apps, including Instacart, Walmart Grocery and Shipt, hit yet another new record for daily downloads for their respective apps, the firm says. […]
  Topics: outbreak, grocery, saw, consumers, amazon, amid, delivery, instacart, downloads, app, daily, apps, record, techcrunch, coronavirus.
• Grocery delivery startup Honestbee is running out of money and trying to sell - Honestbee, the online grocery delivery service in Asia, is nearly out of money and trying to offload its business. The company has held early conversations with a number of suitors in Asia, including ride-hailing giants Grab and Go-Jek, over the potential acquisition of part, or all, of its business, according to two industry sources with […]
  Topics: million, grocery, asia, sell, delivery, markets, money, startup, honestbee, trying, singapore, philippines, company, business, running, techcrunch.
• Grocery e-commerce startup Kurly raises US$113 million - Korean grocery delivery service Kurly has closed an upsized Series D round that hit US$113 million.
  Topics: hit, ecommerce, us113, startup, million, infrastructure, weve, raises, round, yearonyear, grocery, service, fulfillment, kurly, york, uses.
• Grocery shopping online in China booms, even after stores reopen - Grocery shopping online is poised for explosive growth in China, with more than half consumers saying they are buying more online even after stores reopen.
  Topics: chinese, online, stores, billion, china, consumers, world, shopping, globaldata, booms, grocery, growth, covid19, reopen.
• GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage - Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to COVID-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions. […]
  Topics: stays, delivery, companies, grocery, company, raises, center, 60m, market, million, food, stage, lot, xu, grubmarket.
• How Reliance’s JioMart platform will reshape India’s online grocery market - Reliance Industries has entered India’s online grocery retailing market via a new e-commerce platform JioMart, which started pilot trials last month in Mumbai.
  Topics: reliances, platform, online, jiomart, grocery, fg, reliance, reshape, services, retailers, customer, domestic, indias, market, offline.
• How to Sell Groceries on Amazon - Amazon, Target, and Walmart are competing for a dominant U.S. online grocery presence. Amazon sells grocery items via three channels: Prime Pantry, AmazonFresh, and its third-party marketplace. I'll address each channel in this post.
  Topics: products, groceries, items, pantry, grocery, marketplace, brands, sell, amazonfresh, perishable, amazon, prime, sellers.
• India rejects Walmart-owned Flipkart’s proposed foray into food retail business - The Indian government has rejected Flipkart’s proposal to enter the food retail business in a setback for Walmart, which owns a majority of the Indian e-commerce firm and which recently counted its business in Asia’s third-largest economy as one of the worst impacted by the global coronavirus pandemic. The Department for Promotion of Industry and […]
  Topics: food, flipkart, rejects, grocery, industry, india, retail, techcrunch, proposed, flipkarts, business, nations, foray, indian, walmartowned, farmers.
• Indian Grocery Sector Embraces Ecommerce - An increasing number of young Indians are switching to smartphones with 4G data connections and making online purchases. Thanks to this ever-increasing consumer base, the Indian ecommerce sector has witnessed a steady growth in the recent years. It's the food and groceries segment that is fueling much of this growth
  Topics: indian, online, business, segment, ecommerce, embraces, grocery, fmcg, startup, labels, private, sector, products.
• Indian online grocery startup BigBasket raises $60M - Indian grocery startup BigBasket has raised $60 million as it scales its business in the country to meet growing demand from customers stuck at home. Alibaba and other existing investors including Mirae Asset and CDC Group participated in the bridge-round, Vipul Parekh, co-founder of BigBasket, told TechCrunch in an interview. Parekh said the startup intends […]
  Topics: grocery, week, million, india, raises, 60m, online, parekh, bigbasket, customers, indian, volume, techcrunch, startup, weeks.
• Indian startups diversify their businesses to offset COVID-19 induced losses - E-commerce giant Flipkart is planning to launch a hyperlocal service that would enable customers to buy items from local stores and have those delivered to them in an hour and a half or less. Yatra, an online travel and hotel ticketing service, is exploring a new business line altogether: supplying office accessories. Flipkart and Yatra […]
  Topics: grocery, startups, stores, losses, told, online, induced, users, covid19, firms, services, indian, offset, techcrunch, startup, diversify, businesses.
• India’s Flipkart to enter food retailing, launch private label - Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce platform Flipkart is launching a food retail business.
  Topics: indian, enter, retail, flipkart, firm, businessthe, food, grocery, private, walmarts, launch, plans, retailing, walmartowned, label, indias.
• Instacart expands a pickup option for grocery orders across the US - Online grocery delivery service Instacart has expanded the availability of a ‘click and collect’ pickup service it’s been trialing for a few months in the U.S. — now offering it in stores across the nation. It says the collect in person Instacart Pickup option is now available in nearly 200 stores — across 25 “key […]
  Topics: groceries, grocery, option, pickup, delivery, expands, stores, service, expanded, orders, instacart, choose, customers.
• Instacart is now available to 70 percent of U.S. households - Toward the end of 2017, Instacart penned a partnership with one of the country’s biggest grocery retailers, Kroger. At the time, it was a smaller deal with one of Kroger’s chains called Ralphs. But today Instacart is expanding its partnership with Kroger, bringing Instacart delivery to 75 additional Kroger markets, growing Instacart’s Kroger footprint by […]
  Topics: instacarts, partnership, households, deal, delivery, available, grocery, instacart, kroger, platform.
• Instacart nabs Google execs as VPs of engineering and corp dev, acqui-hires MightySignal - After raising $600 million at a $7.6 billion valuation a few weeks ago, Instacart is doubling down on expanding its talent pool to square up against Amazon and others with ambitions in online grocery ordering and delivery. The company has appointed Varouj Chitilian as it first VP of engineering and Dave Sobota as its first VP […]
  Topics: team, nabs, services, corp, google, dev, grocery, stores, execs, instacart, engineering, product, mightysignal, partners, acquihires, vps.
• Instacart upgrades its pickup service with new features, adds alcohol pickup option - Instacart announced today a series of new features for its Pickup service, as well as the appointment of a new general manager, Sarah Mastrorocco, to lead the Instacart Pickup product and team. The grocery pickup service has been steadily growing alongside Instacart delivery, having tripled the number of states and doubled the number of grocery […]
  Topics: pickup, store, adds, partners, alcohol, features, upgrades, delivery, including, business, techcrunch, retail, instacart, service, youre, option, grocery.
• Instacart, in partnership with ALDI, will support SNAP EBT for online groceries - Instacart is making its grocery delivery and pickup services more accessible to lower-income customers by offering customers the ability to pay for groceries using their SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits. This is the first time Instacart shoppers have been able to use government assistance programs when paying for groceries, and follows earlier moves by […]
  Topics: program, ebt, aldi, grocery, snap, food, customers, using, techcrunch, groceries, partnership, instacart, support, online, retailers.
• JD Indonesia launches grocery delivery service - Chinese e-commerce giant JD has initiated a grocery delivery service at Commuter Line train stations in the Greater Jakarta area.
  Topics: products, jakarta, serves, retail, jdvirtual, store, jd, grocery, purchase, delivery, launches, service, indonesia, line.
• Korean grocery startup Kurly raises $150M - Kurly, a startup that operates a grocery delivery service in Korea, has secured $150 million in a new financing round months after reports claimed that the firm might be acquired soon. Sequoia Capital, Hillhouse Capital and DST Global invested in the Korean startup’s Series E financing round, which according to news outlet Korean Investors, valued […]
  Topics: financing, series, korean, million, kurly, raises, techcrunch, grocery, raised, korea, startup, round, 150m, reports, valued.
• Kurly, a grocery e-commerce startup in Korea, closes upsized $113M Series D round - Kurly, a startup that operates a grocery delivery service in Korea, said today that it has closed an upsized Series D round that reached a total of $113 million. The company announced the round in April when it was $88 million, led by investors that include Sequoia China; however, it has now increased by $25 […]
  Topics: kim, d, coupang, million, produce, grocery, kurly, round, techcrunch, startup, thats, service, market, series, ecommerce, upsized, korea.
• Lazada to ramp up grocery retail offer - Lazada Group has announced plans to ramp up its supermarket business in Southeast Asia.
  Topics: shoppers, offer, online, supermarket, ramp, shopping, buy, grocery, lazada, groceries, retail, southeast, singapore.
• Lidl extends grocery delivery in Ireland - Supermarket chain Lidl has extended its online grocery shopping and home delivery service in Ireland. The service, operated by grocery delivery startup Buymie, was already active in Dublin and now extends into the commuter counties surrounding the capital. Lidl launched the online grocery shopping and home delivery service across much… Continue reading
  Topics: online, stores, delivery, buymie, lidl, service, shopping, app, extends, euros, ireland, grocery.
• Malaysia’s Mygroser looks to expand as Covid-19 boosts demand - Malaysian digital grocer Mygroser is raising its first public funding round as it enhances its delivery capacities in the midst of the continuing coronavirus pandemic.
  Topics: delivery, months, expand, looks, malaysias, grocery, mygroser, seen, covid19, meet, offerings, boosts, mco, demand, service.
• Migros launches grocery delivery service Miacar - Migros, the largest supermarket chain of Switzerland, is bringing back the famous Migros wagons, but with a digital twist. In the Bern region, the company is testing Miacar, a new delivery service that resembles the Dutch online grocery startup Picnic that’s currently shaking up the German market. Migros, now the… Continue reading
  Topics: products, migros, mobile, supermarket, electric, service, switzerland, grocery, launches, miacar, delivery, picnic.
• Missfresh racks up $495 million in funding as China’s e-grocery booms - The COVID-19 lockdown around the world introduced online grocery to many shoppers for the first time, boosting an industry that had long drawn skepticism. In China particularly, the older generations often worry about buying perishable food items without scrutinizing them in person. Still, venture investors are bullish on the future of online grocery. One beneficiary […]
  Topics: online, china, racks, investors, venture, funding, egrocery, million, grocery, delivery, lockdown, techcrunch, missfresh, chinas, capital, booms, research.
• Ocado raises 1.1 billion euros - British online supermarket Ocado has plans to raise over 1 billion pounds (1.12 billion euros) in capital. The company wants to further expand its online grocery delivery business. Earlier this week, Ocado announced it plans to raise 734 million euros in new shares and 390 million euros in convertible bonds.… Continue reading
  Topics: partners, raise, ocado, euros, supermarket, grocery, reasons, online, billion, raises, capital.
• Online Grocery Recommendations Are Lacking. 3 Young Entrepreneurs Have Created an AI-Powered Solution. - Most grocer sites ask if you'd like some toilet paper with your carrots. Halla employs AI to recommend products that make sense.
  Topics: young, online, food, aipowered, grocery, shopping, million, amazon, solution, entrepreneurs, products, thats, lacking, created, halla, recommendations.
• Online grocery shopping in Sweden grows 21.9% - Sales in the grocery trade in Sweden increased by 3.1 percent during the full year 2019. The fastest growth was noticeable in the ecommerce, as store sales increased by 2.8 percent, while ecommerce grew 21.9 percent. This is shown by the Grocery Index of the Swedish Food Retailers Federation, an… Continue reading
  Topics: ecommerce, online, retail, grocery, sweden, swedish, rate, retailers, food, grows, webinar, sales, shopping.
• Pandemic helped drive Walmart e-commerce sales up 97% in second quarter - Walmart’s investments in e-commerce, including online grocery delivery and pickup, are continuing to pay off for the retailer. In the company’s Q2 earnings, released this morning, Walmart reported its U.S. e-commerce sales were up 97% — an increase attributed to more customers shopping online during the pandemic, stocking up on household supplies and shopping for […]
  Topics: sales, online, drive, membership, techcrunch, delivery, quarter, grocery, walmarts, pandemic, company, service, helped, walmart, second, ecommerce.
• Portobel turns food producers into direct-to-consumer businesses - A startup called Portobel is working to help food producers shift their businesses so they can support direct-to-consumer deliveries. Portobel is backed by Heroic Ventures and led by Ranjith Kumaran, founder or co-founder of file-sharing company Hightail (acquired by OpenText) and loyalty startup PunchTab (acquired by Walmart Labs). Kumaran told me that he and his co-founders […]
  Topics: portobel, food, turns, things, businesses, producers, started, moo, techcrunch, pandemic, grocery, company, delivery, kumaran, drivers, directtoconsumer.
• Rakuten partners with Seiyu in online grocery service - Japanese online retail company Rakuten is partnering with Walmart-owned supermarket Seiyu to launch an online grocery delivery service.
  Topics: rakuten, grocery, warehouse, partners, online, japanese, supermarket, service, seiyu, rakutens, orders.
• Reliance and Facebook pilot JioMart grocery shopping on WhatsApp - JioMart, an e-commerce venture run by India’s most valued firm, is testing an “ordering system” on WhatsApp, teasing the first peek at the collaboration between Facebook and Indian telecom giant Reliance Jio Platforms. Users in Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan, three sub-urban areas of Mumbai, can now use JioMart’s WhatsApp business account for grocery shopping. […]
  Topics: facebook, pay, pilot, india, jio, reliance, shopping, store, service, whatsapp, grocery, jiomart, retail, users, techcrunch.
• Samara Capital and Amazon buy More India - Samara Capital, a private equity company, has teamed with Amazon to buy Indian grocery retailer More from Aditya Birla Retail.
  Topics: amazon, indian, deal, samara, build, capital, india, retailing, food, grocery, buy, business.
• Sam’s Club to offer same-day grocery delivery via Instacart at over half its stores by month end - Fresh off its $600 million round of new funding, grocery delivery service Instacart is expanding its relationship with Walmart, the companies announced this morning. The two first joined up in February to offer same-day grocery delivery at select Sam’s Clubs locations in the U.S. Today, Walmart says it plans to offer Instacart-powered grocery delivery in over half […]
  Topics: end, walmart, instacart, sameday, delivery, half, walmarts, offer, club, clubs, sams, grocery, month, stores.
• South Korea’s Kurly wins funds for expansion - Kurly, a South Korea-based grocery-delivery startup, has netted Series E funding totalling US$160 million, led by DST Global.
  Topics: kurly, times, fulfillment, south, capital, venture, expansion, global, funding, dst, growth, funds, wins, grocery, koreas.
• Supermercato24 acquires Polish grocery delivery service Szopi - Supermercato24, an Italian same-day delivery service for online grocery, has announced the acquisition of Szopi, an on-demand grocery delivery service from Poland. With the recent acquisition, Supermercato24 wants to speed up its upcoming launch in Poland. It also uses the agreement to leverage a strategic network of retailers to start… Continue reading
  Topics: szopipl, supermercato24, products, acquires, online, ultimate, szopi, polish, delivery, grocery, stores, service.
• Supermercato24 raises 11 million euros - Supermercetato24, an Italian same-day delivery service for online groceries, has raised 11 million euros. The money comes from new investor DIP Capital and current investors FII Tech Growth, 360 Capital Partners and Innogest. The ecommerce company wants to use the investment money to solidify its position in Italy, to deploy… Continue reading
  Topics: raises, service, sameday, euros, money, groceries, retailers, grocery, supermercato24, million, online, position, phase.
• Target grocery pickup service expands nationwide - Target announced today its grocery pickup service is available nationwide. First introduced earlier this summer in the Midwest, Target said it would soon roll out grocery pickup services across the U.S., reaching 1,500 stores in a matter of months. Today, Target says it has reached that goal, which equates to nearly 85% of its locations. […]
  Topics: stores, available, order, target, expands, pickup, items, services, grocery, frozen, service, nationwide, techcrunch, store.
• Target is rolling out fresh grocery pickup nationwide, starting with the Midwest - Target today is joining the growing number of grocery retailers offering curbside and in-store pickup services for fresh and frozen items. The retailer had paused its plans to roll out grocery pickup this spring, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as a factor. It said it didn’t have time to train employees on the new processes. Today, […]
  Topics: fresh, services, nationwide, frozen, target, items, service, techcrunch, order, targets, rolling, pickup, starting, midwest, grocery.
• Thai grocery wholesaler Loxley pivots to delivery - Thai grocery wholesaler Loxley is pivoting to delivery services as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
  Topics: pivots, items, loxley, stores, delivery, mobile, wholesaler, trade, grocery, sales, trucks, thai, wholesale.
• The impact of Covid-19 on consumer trends in Europe - The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way we shop online and offline. Food retailers have benefited from it, while omnichannel non-food retailers are just starting to recover. How has the coronavirus impacted consumer trends in Europe? It seems that four in ten consumers in Europe have experienced a decrease… Continue reading
  Topics: covid19, europe, consumer, retailers, pandemic, consumers, spending, online, trends, buying, planning, groceries, grocery, impact.
• Trigo raises $22M for an automated grocery check-out platform, similar to Amazon Go - Automated check-out systems in supermarkets, where cashiers are replaced by barcode-readers and touchscreen interfaces for taking payments, have become a commonplace fixture in many parts of the world. But today, a startup that’s building what many believe will be the next generation of such systems — computer-vision-powered platforms that monitor what you take from the […]
  Topics: techcrunch, automated, platform, trigos, raises, checkout, amazon, retailers, stores, company, 22m, similar, trigo, systems, grocery, shopping, technology.
• UK leads Europe in embracing online grocery shopping - More and more consumers in Europe are buying fresh food products online. Although many shoppers still tend to buy a lower volume online than they do-instore. The only exception seems to be the United Kingdom, where 42 percent buys more online than in-store and 32% percent buy less online. This… Continue reading
  Topics: buy, online, shoppers, consumers, embracing, grocery, leads, food, fresh, study, shopping, europe, uk.
• UK online grocery will grow 33% - The online grocery market in the United Kingdom is predicted to increase by 33 percent this year. It’s set to reach an estimated value of 19.2 billion euros, up from 14.5 billion euros last year. It would mean a significant development after four years of slowing growth. Last year, the… Continue reading
  Topics: uk, habits, online, mintel, increased, growth, grow, grocery, market, significant, shopping.
• US e-commerce sales jump 49% in April, led by online grocery - Online retailers are seeing Black Friday-like sales due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their business. According to new data from Adobe’s Digital Economy Index, U.S. e-commerce jumped 49% in April, compared to the baseline period in early March before shelter-in-place restrictions went into effect. Online grocery helped drive the increase in sales, […]
  Topics: covid19, consumers, increase, sales, saw, prices, report, growth, ecommerce, online, led, jump, techcrunch, electronics, grocery.
• US online grocery sales hit record $7.2 billion in June - Despite the slow reopening of the U.S. economy over the past several weeks, online grocery shopping is continuing to reach ever-higher numbers as Americans seem to be in no rush to return to the store. According to new research released today by Brick Meets Click and Mercatus, U.S. online grocery sales hit a record $7.2 […]
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• USDA launches pilot program allowing SNAP recipients to shop for groceries online - The USDA this morning announced the launch of a pilot program that will open up online grocery shopping to those on public assistance. During a two-year pilot program, those receiving SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits — often referred to as “food stamps” — will be able to shop for groceries from online retailers, including […]
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• WSJ: Amazon to open new US grocery chain separate from Whole Foods - A report from The Wall St. Journal today claims Amazon is preparing to open a new chain of grocery stores across the U.S. that won’t be associated with Whole Foods. The retailer is expected to open the first of these stores in L.A., possibly by the end of 2019, and has signed leases for at […]
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• Waitrose tests grocery delivery while customers are out - Waitrose is the first supermarket in the United Kingdom that will test the delivery of groceries to customers’ home addresses, while they aren’t at home. The supermarket, now officially called Waitrose & Partners, will test the ‘While You’re Away’ service with 100 customers in the south London area. If the Continue reading
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• Walmart Canada rolls out nationwide grocery delivery through Instacart - Walmart’s relationship with Instacart deepened today with an expansion of their partnership across Canada for grocery delivery. Walmart Canada had previously run a 17-store pilot program with Instacart, starting last September, in both the Greater Toronto area and Winnipeg. With the expansion, Walmart Canada will offer same-day grocery delivery from nearly 200 Walmart stores nationwide. […]
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• Walmart Grocery app sees record downloads amid COVID-19, surpasses Amazon by 20% - Record demand for online grocery shopping amid the COVID-19 pandemic has sent the apps for grocery pickup and delivery services up the charts. Walmart Grocery, as a result, has now hit an all-time high in downloads — grabbing the No. 1 ranking position across all Shopping apps in the U.S. on April 5, 2020, and […]
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• Walmart Grocery is expanding its $98 per year ‘Delivery Unlimited’ subscription across the US - Walmart is expanding its brand-new “Delivery Unlimited” grocery delivery membership program to more stores across the U.S., with plans to reach more than 50% of the country by year-end. The new program allows regular grocery delivery customers to pay either an annual fee of $98 or $12.95 on a monthly basis instead of paying the […]
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• Walmart Grocery is merging with Walmart’s main app and website - Walmart is looking to hook more consumers on its online grocery shopping experience by adding Walmart Grocery to its main Walmart mobile application. For years, the retailer has operated two separate apps: its flagship Walmart app (the blue one) and its separate Walmart Grocery app (the orange one). This meant shoppers had to download and […]
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• Walmart Grocery is now offering a $98 per year ‘Delivery Unlimited’ subscription - Walmart is taking aim at Instacart, Target’s Shipt and Amazon Prime Now/Whole Foods with a new grocery delivery subscription service called simply, “Delivery Unlimited.” Before, Walmart shoppers could order groceries online and pick them up at their local store for free or they could opt to pay the $9.95 (or sometimes less) per-order delivery fee. […]
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• Walmart Grocery now offers curbside alcohol pickup at 2,000 US stores - The online grocery wars continue. Amazon this week just made grocery delivery free, so Walmart is now touting how its grocery service offers the booze. The retailer today announced a new milestone in terms of giving its customers the ability to shop for alcohol online, noting that more than 2,000 Walmart locations across 29 states […]
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• Walmart beats on earnings in Q1, with US e-commerce up by 37% - Walmart’s investments in e-commerce are paying off. The retailer today announced its U.S. e-commerce sales grew by 37% in the first quarter, largely thanks to its booming online grocery business and growth in both the home and fashion categories on Walmart.com. The company also beat analyst estimates for the quarter, with earnings per share of […]
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• Walmart co-leads $500M investment in Chinese online grocery service Dada-JD Daojia - Walmart sold its China-based e-commerce business in 2016, but the U.S. retail giant is very much involved in the Chinese internet market through a partnership with e-commerce firm JD.com. Alibaba’s most serious rival, JD scooped up Walmart’s Yihaodian business and offered its own online retail platform to help enable Walmart to products in China, both on […]
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• Walmart ends delivery partnership with Deliv - Walmart in 2016 said it would begin testing last-mile delivery using services like Uber, Lyft, and Deliv to bring customers’ orders, including groceries and Sam’s Club orders, to their homes. Last year, Walmart ended its grocery delivery deal with Uber following a similar wind-down with Lyft, and today it’s ending the deal with Deliv as […]
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• Walmart in China is now testing same-day grocery delivery from Dada via WeChat - Walmart has just begun testing same-day grocery delivery, called Walmart To Go, in one of its stores in China, months after the American retail titan expanded grocery delivery in its homeland. The service is accessed through a mini-program within WeChat — the Tencent-owned messaging platform Walmart partnered with earlier this year in order to better […]
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• Walmart is piloting a pricier 2-hour ‘Express’ grocery delivery service - Record usage of grocery delivery services amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delayed orders, fewer open delivery windows and, on occasion, an inability to even book a delivery time slot. Walmart now hopes to capitalize on the increased demand for speedier delivery with the introduction of a new service that allows consumers to pay […]
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• Walmart launches in-home grocery delivery in three cities: Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Vero Beach - Walmart will bring your groceries to you and put them away in the fridge, with the launch of its new service, InHome. The retailer is today debuting its new in-home grocery delivery service in three cities: Kansas City, (Missouri and Kansas); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Vero Beach, Florida. Customers in these markets can subscribe to InHome […]
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• Walmart now accepts SNAP for online grocery orders at all 2,500+ pickup locations - Walmart has been working to address the needs of low-income shoppers for some time. More recently, it’s been introducing new ways to serve customers on public assistance. In fall 2017, the retailer began a small test allowing customers to pay for online grocery orders using their SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits — more casually […]
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• Walmart partners with delivery logistics platform Bringg on last-mile grocery delivery - Walmart announced on Wednesday a new last-mile delivery pilot program, called Spark Delivery, which focuses on fulfilling customers’ online grocery orders. The retailer is working with delivery logistics platform Bringg, a company that offers an Uber-like or Amazon-like level of visibility to retailers’ delivery operations. Also similar to Uber, Walmart’s Spark delivery program relies on […]
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• Walmart partners with self-driving startup Nuro to test autonomous grocery delivery in Houston - Walmart this morning announced a new pilot program that will test autonomous grocery delivery in the Houston market starting next year. The retailer is partnering with autonomous vehicle company Nuro, a robotics company that uses driverless technology to deliver goods to customers. Nuro’s vehicles in this case will deliver Walmart online grocery orders to a […]
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• Walmart partners with smart box maker HomeValet for grocery delivery pilot - Walmart announced today it will soon begin to pilot a new solution that could eventually allow the retailer to deliver groceries to customers’ homes 24 hours per day. The company is partnering with HomeValet, the maker of a temperature-controlled smart box that’s placed outside the home. Customers’ groceries can be delivered, contact-free, to the secure […]
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• Walmart reports lower-than-expected Q4 earnings, despite e-commerce sales growth of 35% - Walmart’s holiday quarter didn’t perform as expected. That’s the big news today from the retailer’s weak Q4 2019 earnings, which saw revenue of $141.67 billion versus the $142.55 expected and adjusted earnings per share of $1.38 versus the $1.44 expected. The company cited a number of factors, including “softer” than anticipated holiday sales in U.S. […]
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• Walmart to launch in-home grocery delivery in three cities, starting this fall - Walmart on Friday announced plans for a new, in-home grocery delivery service that would allow the retailer to deliver items directly to a customer’s fridge or freezer, even when the customer isn’t home. The service, called InHome Delivery, works by way of smart entry technology combined with proprietary cameras worn by the delivery associates that […]
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• Walmart tops US online grocery market, with 62% more customers than next nearest rival - Walmart is dominating the U.S. online grocery market, according to new research out this week from the analysts at Second Measure. The nationwide retailer today offers grocery pickup and delivery in nearly every U.S. state, and had 62% more customers in June than its next nearest rival. And no, in this case, that rival is […]
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• Walmart’s Flipkart confirms it is entering the food retail business in India - India’s Flipkart is entering the food retail business as the e-commerce giant looks to expand its reach in the nation, its chief executive said on Tuesday. Flipkart, which sold majority stake in the company to Walmart for $16 billion last year, has registered an entity called “Flipkart Farmermart Pvt Ltd” — in compliance with local […]
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• Walmart’s Sam’s Club launches curbside pickup nationwide - Walmart’s online grocery business has been a significant contributor to its growing e-commerce sales, particularly now amid the coronavirus pandemic. Now the retailer is expanding access to curbside pickup at its warehouse club chain, Sam’s Club. Today, Sam’s Club announced the nationwide launch of curbside pickup, bringing the service to all its 597 clubs across […]
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• Walmart’s US e-commerce sales up 43% in Q4, thanks to growing online grocery business - Walmart this morning posted strong holiday sales growth for its holiday quarter, with U.S. sales up 4.2 percent over the same time last year, and a 43 percent rise in Walmart’s U.S. e-commerce sales. The retailer topped analyst expectations, with $138.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, just ahead of the forecasted $138.76 billion; and […]
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• What Business Can Learn from Supermarkets' Pandemic Playbooks - Adaptability can make or break your business.
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• What grocery startup Weee! learned from China’s tech giants - When Larry Liu moved to the U.S. in 2003, one of the first challenges he experienced was the lack of Chinese ingredients available in local groceries. A native of Hubei, a Chinese province famous for its freshwater fish and lotus-inspired dishes, Liu got by with a limited supply found at local Asian groceries in the […]
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• Who’s building the grocery store of the future? - The future of grocery shopping will be a win-win for both stores and customers.
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• ‘Amazon Go comes to the UK’ - Amazon Go, the checkout-free stores from Amazon, will roll out in the United Kingdom. The ecommerce giant hasn’t officially announced this, but there are several reports Amazon is looking for locations across the country to roll out the innovative grocery stores. According to The Sunday Times, Amazon wants to acquire Continue reading
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