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Ahold Delhaize USA Jumps Into Bed With DoorDash

Ahold Delhaize USA yesterday announced “a new agreement with local commerce platform DoorDash to make an additional on-demand grocery delivery marketplace available to customers at each of its local omnichannel brands – Food Lion, Hannaford, Giant Food, The GIANT Company and Stop & Shop. Delivery from DoorDash is expected to be available to customers of […]
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Omnichannel Leadership with Cornell’s Dan Hooker & Karan Girotra and Kellanova’s Clare Galvão

The CPG Guys were joined for this episode by Karan Girotra, the Charles H. Dyson Family Professor of Management at Cornell University’s SC Johnson School of Business, Dan Hooker, Senior Lecturer & Executive Education Program Director at the Cornell Johnson School plus Clare Galvão, Vice President of Customer & Channel Strategy at Kellanova. This episode […]
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Your Views:  Making Up For Lost Time

Reacting to Amazon’s plan to create a pay tier for its Alexa smart speaker system, one MNB reader wrote: Our main household use for Alexa is to control lights, heat, and A/C.  If they start charging for it, we will stop using it.  There are many other platforms available for home control that do not […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

In Connecticut, Amazon Fresh Is Out & BIg Y Is In

CT Insider reports that Amazon has decided not to open Amazon Fresh stores in the towns of Westport and Brookfield, despite the fact it had done considerable work on the store facilities over the years. Instead, Big Y will take over the locations, offering those communities more traditional supermarket shopping alternatives. Some context from the […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

SEG completes sale of Fresco y Más

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Southeastern Grocers  said it has completed the divestiture of its Fresco y Más operations via a sale of the banner to an investment group, which plans to maintain existing operations at the locations. SEG last year announced plans to sell the chain to Fresco Retail Group LLC as part of its ongoing […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Giant Food to open store in Maryland

LANDOVER, Md. — Giant Food, the leading greater Washington, D.C., regional grocery chain, announces the grand opening of a new Maryland store located at 5320 Zenith Overlook in Bethesda. Doors officially open at 6 a.m. on Friday, January 26. The opening brings a new pharmacy to the Bethesda community along with amenities, including full-service meat and seafood departments, an expanded gourmet cheese selection, expansive […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Stop & Shop is Using Robotics to Improve CX, Community Engagement

While at NRF 2024: Retail’s Big Show in New York City last week, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan spoke with Karen Mitchell, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Stop & Shop, a supermarket chain, to learn more about how the business is using robotics to improve the in-store customer experience as well as create engaging […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Supermarket Offers in-Store Virtual Healthcare Platform

The Hartford Courant reports that Connecticut’s Hartford Health Care network has partnered with care delivery company OnMed and Ahold Delhaize-owned Stop & Shop to deploy a virtual care platform inside one of the retailer’s supermarkets. According to the story, OnMed says that it “represents an innovative, unique and proactive approach to addressing consumers’ needs for […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

The Biggest Stories of 2023

In this Recap Episode, Sri & PVSB review what they consider to be the top CPG/Retail stores of 2023: The end of Boxed.com Omnicom & Albertsons Media Collective partners with trade desk PepsiCo redesigns logo Giant Eagle circulars March no, April yes Kroger/Alb announce decision to sell over 400 stores to C&S Who owns Taco […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Gina Acosta ‘s 12 Grocery Sector Trends for 2024

  Every year it important to take stock of what other leaders in the industry think is important or what they think will be important.  Gina Acosta is a proven leader within the grocery sector Steven Johnson Grocearnt Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® wants us to share some of her insights.  Here we […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Trader Joe’s Grocerant Focused Best Other Grocers

  Looking for a meal for one or two at a price you can afford that is good!  Well it seems that many consumers are doing the same thing and that they are doing that with gusto at Trader Joe’s.  According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® “In the minds-eye […]
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  1. Stores & Formats

Your Views:  From Retail Theft Realities to Greedflation

We had a story the other day in which it was stated that “retail theft has been lower this year in most of the country than it was a few years ago, according to police data.” But MNB reader Mike Moon asked a good question: But I have to wonder, how much retail theft is […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

What Kinds of Shopping Experiences Will Shape the Future of Stores? DSI

“When we talk about omnichannel native, what we try to think about is a seamless path for the consumer. “ — Stewart Samuel, Director of Retail Futures, IGD The pandemic fundamentally changed how we shop, with many people becoming accustomed to online and omnichannel shopping. Rather than eradicate shoppers’ interest in physical stores, though, this […]
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It recently emerged that Amazon’s Just Walk Out offering is being dropped from Amazon Fresh stores. However, it’s not checkout-free tech that’s failing, it’s the fact that Amazon’s checkout free solution doesn’t work, especially in grocery retailers, argues Will Glaser, Founder and CEO at Grabango. In the dynamic grocery retail landscape, a transformative wave is […]
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