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  1. Shopper & Customer

Consumers Blurring Shopping Lines Between Channels

  At the intersection of what’s for dinner, where will I get dinner, more and more consumers are asking what is the fastest solution (84.6%), then what is the cheapest (51.4), and will everyone be happy with the food (49.2%) according to Foodservice Solutions® most recent grocerant scorecards.  Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA […]
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  1. Department: Beverage

Yes Bojangles Partnership with Appalachian Mountain Brewery Works

  Bojangles new brand messaging with a real kick! In an effort to drive brand awareness, brand relevance, and internet buzz all with edifying the Bojanglesbrand with some new electricity, according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. So, that’s why Bojangles and Appalachian Mountain Brewery (AMB) have partnered to brew […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Currys hails busy Black Friday and tackles digital poverty with Christmas song

Electrical retailer Currys says it was the fourth busiest website in the UK over Black Friday with eight million customers online. It is also getting into the Christmas song business, with a tune courtesy of one of its employees. In a LinkedIn post, Andy Gamble, Chief Information Officer | Chief Transformation Officer at Currys, said: […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Your Views:  Margin Call

Yesterday we quoted a Benjamin Lorr op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times in which he wrote about the Kroger-Albertsons merger: “The supermarket industry is trapped in an unsustainable model, “chasing higher and higher volume to fund cheaper and cheaper prices. Which by necessity means grocers are always looking over their shoulder at their competition. […]
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  1. Department: HBC

Circle K, Leading Cannabis Brand Announce Partnership

Circle K, a Canada-based convenience store and gas station operator, announced it was partnering with Green Thumb, a leading national cannabis consumer packaged goods company, to sell its products at a handful of Circle K locations next year. About 10 “RISE Express”-branded dispensaries will open adjacent to Circle K stores in various Florida locations, Green […]
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Circle K Welcomes Cannabis Seller as Next-Door Neighbor Via Green Thumb Partnership

Cannabis retailer Green Thumb has partnered with Circle K to launch an initial 10 RISE Express medical dispensaries adjacent to Circle K stores in Florida. The agreement allows Green Thumb to lease space from Circle K in Florida, where the c-store retailer operates approximately 600 locations, to offer patients a selection of branded cannabis products. […]
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Couche-Tard Prepares For A More Food-Centric C-Future

Bloomberg has a story about how Circle K owner Alimentation Couche-Tard is developing a series of tactics designed to serve a core strategy – growing its food sales to represent between 20 and 25 percent of sales. The impetus comes from a recognition that the company is too dependent on fuel sales and profits at […]
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  1. Corporate Purpose

Coborn’s CEO Joins CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Coalition

Coborn’s, the Minnesota-based supermarket chain, announced yesterday that its CEO-chairman, Chris Coborn, “has joined the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion coalition. The organization is the largest CEO-driven business commitment to drive measurable action and meaningful change in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. “In signing this commitment, Coborn’s, Inc. joins a partnership […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Technology Platforms Drive Sales ask 7-Eleven

  Success does leave clues and 7-Eleven has picked-up more than their fair share of clues over the years according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® who stated “all foodservice retailers can learn from one another.  With a huge global footprint 7-Eleven is positioned to view, learn, and rollout success […]
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  1. Channel & Retailers

BK’s parent, Couche-Tard and Kroger invest in ghost kitchen provider Kitchen United

Kitchen United raised $100 million from a group of investors that include Alimentation Couche-Tard, Kroger, Restaurant Brands International and Simon Property Group. The latest round brings Kitchen United’s fundraising to $175 million.
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  1. International

Alimentation Couche-Tard may bid on Petro-Canada’s gas stations

Alimentation Couche-Tard is considering a bid for at least some of Petro-Canada’s 1,500 gas stations. The owner of Circle K operates 2,100 stores in Canada, some of which overlap the markets of Metro-Canada’s stations in the eastern portion of Canada. “Couche-Tard, I think, would have a hard time buying the whole network. There would be […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Dollar General to Trial 100% Self-Checkout Stores at 200 Locations

Discount variety chain Dollar General is looking to self-checkout as a way to “leverage and reinforce our position as a low-cost operator,” COO Jeff Owen told analysts on the company’s Q1 earnings call on May 26, 2022. Dollar General already has self-checkout kiosks in 8,000 of its 18,000 stores and plans to increase that number […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

C-Store Retailer To Expand Touchless “Smart Checkout” To 7,000+ Units

Alimentation Couche-Tard announced yesterday that it “will deploy more than 10,000 Mashgin Touchless Checkout Systems branded as “Smart Checkout,” to over 7,000 of its Circle K and Couche-Tard stores during the next three years. The AI-powered self-checkout system developed by Mashgin will improve customer checkout times as much as 400%, driving customer experience forward while […]
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  1. Channel: Convenience

Circle K and Couche-Tard to install self-checkouts in 10K stores

Alimentation Couche-Tard said it will install more than 10,000 touchless self-checkout machines in over 7,000 stores over the next three years under its Circle K and Couche-Tard convenience banners. The machines from Mashgin boast a 99.9 percent accuracy rate.
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Consumer Trends That Every Brick-and-Mortar Brand Must Respond To

The shopper should set the agenda for your brand — always. Those brands that fall out of touch with consumer tastes become disconnected from those with the sole power to keep you profitable and relevant. This is why Raydiant produced the State of Consumer Behavior 2022 report. By serving up actionable insights into what the […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Food Rocket plans to offer 15-minute delivery from Chicago convenience store

Dive Brief: Ultrafast grocery delivery startup Food Rocket is planning to open a fulfillment center in Chicago this summer that will be co-located with a new Circle K convenience store and offer 15-minute delivery of products sold by both retailers, Food Rocket founder and CEO Vitaly Alexandrov said in an interview. Both companies said a […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

April: top ten coolest retail technology plays

RTIH Editor, Scott Thompson, brings you his stand out ‘future of retail’ systems deployments from last month, including NFT collections, checkout-free stores, and TikTok shopping events.  Wakefern Food Corp. Wakefern Food Corp., the largest retailer owned cooperative in the US, has announced a pilot with Simbe Robotics to deploy its business intelligence solution, Tally, at […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Rapid grocery delivery startup Food Rocket raises $25m

15-minute grocery delivery service, Food Rocket, has announced a $25 million Series A investment round. This will be used to expand its offering in Chicago and other cities throughout the US, as well as reinforce its AI enabled software and enhance the team.  The lead investor is Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT), which has more than 14,000 […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Food Rocket blasts off after securing funding, grocery delivery deal with Circle K parent

Many grocery delivery startups begin small, in one city, building up locations to cater to a certain neighborhood. Food Rocket has taken an unconventional route, striking a funding deal with Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. that puts its 15-minute grocery delivery service in more than 14,000 Circle K convenience stores and Couche-Tard locations. We first met the […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

4 Ways Retailers Can Add Crypto Successfully

Many people in finance and retail considered 2021 the “year of the cryptocurrency.” In November, the mayor-elect of New York City, Eric Adams, sent a tweet saying he wants his first three paychecks to be paid in Bitcoin. While the NYC payroll department likely cannot do that, it signals the mayor’s intentions to encourage cryptocurrency adoption.
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  1. Channel: Convenience

Circle K makes investment to explore delivery models

The Circle K Investment fund has invested in online grocery companies Farmstead and Food Rocket. The fund was started in 2020 and invests in technology startups in the food industry. “The evolution of our customers’ convenience needs has accelerated over the past two years since the start of the pandemic, and these investments and partnerships […]
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Do you like numbers? Do you like retail systems news? Then this is the article for you. Including Emperia, Amazon UK, Mercaux, Gemba, Adobe, and Twinco Capital. $18 million…Gemba, a virtual reality training startup used by the likes of Nike, Coca-Cola, and Amazon, has bagged $18 million in a Series A round of funding from […]
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NRF 2023: Top Retail Influencers’ Key Takeaways (Part Two)

The RETHINK Retail team ventured to NYC from January 14-17th for NRF 2023: Retail’s Big Show. While there, we had the opportunity to speak with attendees from our Top Retail Influencer community and learn about their event experience. #TRI members–Ian Scott, Martin Newman, Melissa Gonzalez, Melissa Minkow, Nikki Baird, Ron Thurston, Stewart Samual, and Thomas […]
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