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Albertsons and DoorDash announce on-demand grocery delivery tie up

Albertsons Companies has teamed with DoorDash to offer on-demand grocery delivery from nearly 2,000 Albertsons banner stores across the US, including Safeway, Vons and Jewel-Osco, via the DoorDash marketplace app. Albertsons will offer more than 40,000 grocery items, including fresh and prepared foods and core grocery, floral and convenience items at select stores. Additionally, in some markets, […]
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PVH Sells Off Heritage Brands as it Turns Focus to Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger

PVH Corp. is selling its Heritage Brands portfolio — which includes the Izod, Van Heusen, Arrow and Geoffrey Beene brands — to fellow brand management firm Authentic Brands Group for approximately $220 million. PVH had been working to optimize the Heritage Brands portfolio over the past few years amidst a shifting of resources to “higher-return businesses,” said […]
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Marketplace Pricing: Setting a dynamic product price strategy

With the vast number of products available to purchase online, consumers have more choice than ever, and it can be easy for brands to struggle to manage and follow up on the available data, especially when setting pricing on marketplaces. However, as more than 50% of online shoppers will now regularly compare sellers to find […]
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Snackpass gobbles up $70M at a $400M+ valuation as its social food ordering platform crosses 500K users

While every food delivery company is trying to get an edge on its rivals with discount codes, faster service, and a turn into the realm of spooky with ghost kitchens and dark stores, a startup built on a lighter, social concept — letting people see what their friends are chomping on, making it possible to […]
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How Digital Shelf Contributes to Omnichannel Marketing

How Digital Shelf Contributes to Omnichannel Marketing Retail isn’t what it used to be. We used to solely rely on brick and mortar stores a few decades ago, but now, we have physical stores, online stores, mobile phones, text message marketing, and so much more. With the rise of the Internet and mobile technologies, these […]
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Hudson’s Bay Goes After Millennials/Gen Z via Forever 21 Partnership

Hudson’s Bay is betting that attracting younger Gen Z and millennial shoppers will be essential for staying relevant and reinventing the department store category. The retailer and Forever 21, working through YM Inc., the Canadian licensee of the brand, unveiled a new partnership that makes Forever 21’s full-line collections available at select Hudson’s Bay locations. […]
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How Resale, Sustainability and its 3,300 Stores Support Goodwill’s Key Mission — Jobs

In 1902, Reverend Edgar Helms began collecting used goods that were being discarded in wealthy Boston neighborhoods and redistributing them to people in need. Helms quickly realized that by employing those same people to repair and resell the products, he could give them something much more valuable than a handout — he could give them […]
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Renovai Uses Visual AI to Deliver Personalized Search Results and Recommendations

Visual AI platform renovai offers real-time solutions that help retailers create inspiring, personal interactions with shoppers. The company leverages its correlated deep tagging technology to hyperpersonalize the shopping experience, by making products more discoverable and improving the tagging accuracy with computer vision AI. Correlated deep tagging can improve filtering based on the categories shoppers want […]
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As Ecommerce Booms, Brands Must Boost App Stability

As a result of the COVID pandemic, the digital experience has become more important for almost every industry over the last year. Lockdowns and social distancing have driven more and more customers to interact with brands via their apps, dramatically accelerating digital transformation. However, 2020 was an inflection point for one sector in particular: ecommerce. […]
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Miva Helps Mid-Size Retailers Seize Ecommerce Opportunities with Shorter Development Cycles

The Miva ecommerce platform is designed to evolve with business needs to help retailers drive sales, maximize average order value, cut overhead costs and increase revenue. Miva can fill the gap between traditional “one size fits all” boxed-in SaaS platforms and large enterprise platforms. The platform offers basic ecommerce functionality natively in order to promote […]
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Amazon CEO Dave Clark catches heat for Prime Day 2021 tweet

Prime Day 2021 kicked off yesterday, with Amazon CEO Dave Clark taking to Twitter to label it his “happy place” and a “great day for customers”. You can probably guess what comes next… If only Amazon’s employees could give such positive feedback, the Twitterverse shot back. At my happy place…thanks to everyone who is making […]
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Is Chipotle Gambling with Success

  If your house is anything like our house, I’m sure you have heard the words, ‘turn off the computer and come to dinner’.  There is more than one family meal in America that has been eaten cold when a child or errant adult just could not get off the computer while playing games. Gamification […]
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Eight Client and Customer Expectations.

Over the course of four decades of working with clients and customers all over the world, their needs regardless of industry, size, or the country they operate in, almost always distill down to eight key expectations from their service providers. Four of these expectations are focused on outputs and outcomes and four of them focus […]
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Two To Transform : Embrace Tech. Upgrade Talent.

A river of change is carrying everybody and every company into the future. Six significant forces are sculpting the frontiers of tomorrow. While there is a great complexity to be dealt with to ensure a profitable and successful tomorrow, there are only two key drivers that matter. These are ones we should focus on and […]
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Retailers Wrangle for a Piece of the Prime Day Pie

As Amazon Prime Day approaches, more and more retailers are aiming to get in on the action with their own competing sales. Shortly after Amazon announced that its annual sales bonanza would take place June 21 and 22 this year, Walmart and Target shared news of their own competing sales. Now other retailers, including Kohl’s […]
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Pixel Perfection is Retail’s Missing Ecommerce Link

Take a moment to step into the shopper’s shoes when they’re shopping. Consider all the different brand messages they are receiving — good and bad. Have you ever clicked on a beautiful ad that led to an outdated, terrible-looking ecommerce site? Or have you seen an ad for a product you were initially interested in […]
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Restaurants can add Customer Relevance while Saving Money that is SpotOn

  Consumers are on the move no more so than Gen Z and Millennials in search of food discovery, an integrated mobile lifestyle, with a meal’s on demand mindset according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Did you know that SpotOn is integrating with Order with Google, so it’s even […]
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Kroger Delivers Strong First Quarter & 253 New Private Brand Items

Late last week The Kroger Co. reported its first-quarter 2021 results and updated investors on how Leading with Fresh and Accelerating with Digital initiatives are positioning Kroger for long-term sustainable growth. “Kroger is even better positioned to connect with our customers than we were prior to the pandemic as a result of our relentless focus […]
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Walgreens Delivers via Uber Eats

  Back in the day Walgreens was the largest chain of restaurants in the U.S. with lunch counters serving hot meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  Walgreens was the first to offer the ‘fourth meal’ serving coffee and pie all day as a meal or a snack.  The ability to expand its speed of service […]
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Kroger Delivers Strong First Quarter Results and Raises Full-Year 2021 Guidance

The Kroger Co. today reported its first quarter 2021 results and will update investors on how Leading with Fresh and Accelerating with Digital initiatives are positioning Kroger for long-term sustainable growth.
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Jason & Scot Show Episode 267 – Deep Dive into Food Commerce with Matt Newberg of HNGRY

A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. In episode 267 we deep dive into the rapidly changing digital grocery and digital resturant industries with Matt Newberg founder of HNGRY. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Podcast RSS SoundCloud TuneIn iHeartRadio Google Play Music Overcast Pocket Casts Facebook ????? Matt Newberg (@thenewb) […]
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Jason & Scot Show Episode 267 – Deep Dive into Food Commerce with Matt Newberg of HNGRY

A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. In episode 267 we deep dive into the rapidly changing digital grocery and digital resturant industries with Matt Newberg founder of HNGRY. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Podcast RSS SoundCloud TuneIn iHeartRadio Google Play Music Overcast Pocket Casts Facebook ????? Matt Newberg (@thenewb) […]
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Covering Omnichannel Grocery News with Grocery Dive’s Jeff Wells

The CPG Guys, Sri & PVSB, are joined in this episode by Jeff Wells, Senior Editor of Grocery Dive. Grocery Dive provides in-depth journalism and insight into the most impactful news and trends shaping the grocery industry. The newsletters and website cover topics such as shopper behavior, omnichannel, e-commerce, pricing and discounting, store formats, and […]
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Boxed to Go Public in SPAC Deal

E-commerce grocery shopping platform Boxed and Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp., a special-purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, announced they would go public in a deal that would value the combined company at $900 million. Boxed would use the money to serve more households and businesses that started ordering groceries online during the pandemic. The combined company will be called […]
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Boxed To Go Public Via SPAC Merger

E-commerce bulk retailer Boxed announced this morning that it is going public via a merger with Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp., a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). According to the announcement, “The combined company will be called Boxed, Inc. upon the closing of the transaction and is expected to be listed in the U.S. under […]
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Boxed to go public in SPAC deal valuing online grocer at $900M

The merger, which keeps CEO Chieh Huang at the helm, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Dive Brief: Boxed, the online seller of bulk-sized toilet paper, cereal and other goods, has entered into an agreement with Seven Oaks Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), according to an […]
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Daily QuickWit (6.24) – Yesterday’s Top Stories

Mintel released their June 2021 trend observations A good read of what is going on right now and what is relevant to retailers and brands everywhere Walmart’s former e-commerce chief Marc Lore says brands like Warby Parker can’t be replicated by big-box retailers More and more DTC brands keep showing up, it will be fascinating […]
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Forrester’s US Retail Recovery Heat Map, June 2021 — Expected Income Loss Still High In Some Metros

Retail recovery is proceeding at different rates in various parts of the US. In May 2021, we adjusted our retail recovery heat map model to include the following factors: Economic sentiment — based on household expected loss of income in the next four weeks Change in cases — 14-day percentage change in cases Saturation of […]
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