Happy Tuesday! Here are the top retail news stories we are talking about this morning:
In an effort to scale faster in the Nashville community, Donatos Pizza has partnered with REEF (who has a national network of neighborhood kitchens) to make and deliver pizzas to more of the community without having to open new locations. Donatos is the next big name to throw their hat into the ghost kitchen game, could be a super smart way to increase your potential market while keeping delivery times down.
Maybe it was nothing, or maybe it was another cyberattack, but something was causing a major outage for Amazon last night. Of those reporting issues, 80% couldn’t get Amazon.com to load, and others had issues logging in or submitting orders. It was a global outage for Amazon, and certainly raised some alarm for the company. We are not speculating what may have happened, but happy to see whatever happened was temporary and things went back to normal last night.
The great worker shortage continues, and companies are upping the ante. McDonald’s is reportedly adding tuition and child care as perks for the employees, as they are desperate to fill roles in their restaurants nationwide. Many places are adding signing bonuses and trying other perks to attract talent, but the reality is that many are hesitant to jump into restaurants and service work after how 2020 played out. The real question we have is, where are all the high school kids working these days?
And finally, Amazon makes an outside hire to help run its stores in the U.S. Tony Hoggett, who is currently chief strategy and innovation director at Tesco, will be joining Amazon in January as SVP of Physical Stores. Some may remember a decade or so ago when Tesco tried to establish itself on US soil with their “Fresh & Easy” stores. Ultimately the stores didn’t resonate with consumers and they exited in 2013. I would fully expect this Tesco veteran not to fail this time, something without a doubt to keep an eye on.
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