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  1. Department: Food

Grocerant Niche Holiday Meal Deals Check them Out

  Regular readers of this blog know that Winsight grocery magazine is being rolled into Supermarket News.  Last week Russell Redman wrote another very good article for about grocery stores that are offering mix and match bundled grocerant niche Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat meal deals that save the consumer both time and money.  According to Steven […]
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  1. Department: HBC

Your Views:  We All Deserve A Break Today

Lots or response to yesterday’s FaceTime, in which I went to McDonald’s to road test the supposedly new-and-improved burgers that have been seven years in the making. MNB reader Barbara Watters wrote: Love the morning FaceTimes.  Your McDonald’s segment had me remembering my recent Big Mac a few weeks ago.  Blah and bleg.  The flavor […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

’Tis the season for shopping and romcoms: RTIH runs back the week’s coolest retail technology plays

RTIH Editor, Scott Thompson, brings you his top ‘future of retail’ systems launches and deployments from the past week, including Amazon, Pinterest, Aldi, Walmart, HMV, New Look, TrusTrace, One Water, Polytag, BERSHKA, and 3DLOOK. Amazon Amazon has opened a Second Chance Store in London, giving festive shoppers the chance to buy quality returned products in-person, […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Including HMV, Asda, and Ikea UK: RTIH presents the retail technology week in numbers

Do you like numbers? Do you like retail systems news? Then this is the article for you. Including TrusTrace, New Look, Square, Fossil Group, NewStore, InPost, and the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards. 5…This week, we announced the winning submissions for the 2023 RTIH Innovation Awards, sponsored by PMC, FreedomPay, Worldpay from FIS, CADS, 3D Cloud […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Instacart and Wegmans to bring alcohol delivery to New Jersey, US

Instacart unlocks alcohol delivery in partnership with Wegmans. Credit: Instacart/PRNewswire. Grocery technology company Instacart has launched an alcohol delivery service for the first time in New Jersey, US. The service was launched in partnership with Wegmans Food Markets and all independently owned Wegmans wine, liquor and beer locations. Customers above the age of 21 can […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Big Lots Adds Uber Eats Delivery Option from 1,200+ Stores

Discount home goods retailer Big Lots has partnered with Uber Eats to offer delivery services from its more than 1,200 stores across the country in time for the holiday season. Uber Eats users will gain access to exclusive Big Lots brands like Broyhill home décor items as well as other brands and private label products, […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Big Lots Adds Uber Eats Delivery Option from 1,200+ Stores

Discount home goods retailer Big Lots has partnered with Uber Eats to offer delivery services from its more than 1,200 stores across the country in time for the holiday season. Uber Eats users will gain access to exclusive Big Lots brands like Broyhill home décor items as well as other brands and private label products, […]
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  1. Channel: Drug

Walgreens Pivots To Store-Based Home Delivery

The Wall Street Journal reports that “Walgreens Boots Alliance is betting its 8,700 bricks-and-mortar stores, and not a network of fulfillment centers, hold the key to speeding up delivery of online consumer orders and increasing sales. “The pharmacy giant recently closed a warehouse in Edwardsville, Ill., dedicated to filling e-commerce orders for household items such […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Instacart Says Q3 Volume Up Six Percent

Instacart, in its first financial report since its IPO, says that its Q3 gross transaction value (GTV) was up six percent over the same period a year ago, to $7.5 billion, and orders to 66.2 million, up four percent year-over-year. The Information described the results as “relatively sluggish,” but noted that they “beat Wall Street […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

DoorDash adds HSA and FSA payment capability

    [[“value”:” DoorDash has enabled payment options for both HSA (Health Savings Account) and FSA (Flexible Spending Accounts) to pay for eligible items at select merchants on the delivery company’s app.  Consumers can use their HSA and FSA funds to pay for over 30,000 HSA/FSA-eligible products on DoorDash including select over-the-counter (OTC) medicine, COVID-19 […]
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  1. Department & Category

Food-delivery startup Wonder Group gets $100 million investment from Nestle

​ ​ In this article NES.N-CH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Wonder Group has bought rights to make dishes from popular restaurants and celebrity chefs, such as Bobby Flay and José Andrés. It’s also developed high-tech kitchen equipment to speed up and simplify cooking. Wonder Group Food-delivery company Wonder Group has gotten a cash infusion […]
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  1. Channel: Restaurants

Hand Held Digital Food Marketing Technology is Essential for C-Stores and Restaurants

  Did you know that one in two people said they like to order directly from the restaurant, with 44% choosing to do so as it allows them to personalize their order better. According to the team at Foodservice Solutions® consumers are talking digital, ordering digital, and thinking digital. According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

DoorDash To Customers:  No Tip, Slower Service

The Wall Street Journal this morning reports that DoorDash “is warning users that not tipping a delivery driver could mean waiting longer for their meal.” The warning is coming in the form of an alert that goes to customers using DoorDash:  ““Dashers can pick and choose which orders they want to do.  Orders that take […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

UN Accuses Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash of Human Rights Violations

A United Nations-appointed independent expert on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, has sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, and DoorDash CEO Tony Xu, asking them to respond “to reports of inadequate pay, aggressive union-busting tactics, and the misclassification of workers as ‘independent contractors,’ intentionally depriving them of traditional employment […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Your Views:  The Federal Way

Yesterday I did a FaceTime video about superior customer service – and cited the folks who work for the federal government, at Medicare and Social Security, as examples of efficiency, effectiveness and above-and-beyond behavior that is worth emulating. MNB reader Eric Williams wrote: I wanted to comment on your article on the federal government and […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

How Micro Fulfillment Can Transform Ecommerce Delivery DSI

“Micro fulfillment is that evolution of at least getting closer to the customer, so you can understand from a hyper-local perspective what zip codes, categories, regionalities, and seasonalities you are really servicing. Then, you can work backward and figure out how to service them in the most efficient way.”             […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Featuring AiFi, Macy’s, and TalkShopLive: RTIH runs you through the week’s coolest retail technology plays

RTIH Editor, Scott Thompson, brings you his top ‘future of retail’ systems launches and deployments from the past week, including robot food delivery services, autonomous stores, AI chatbots, and peer-to-peer resale platforms. The University of Akron The University of Akron has rolled out a robot food delivery service, covering its campus building and residence halls. […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Hackathons, drones and chatbots: RTIH flags the biggest retail technology news stories of the week

It’s Friday, the weekend is almost upon us, so let’s kick back and reflect on another eventful week for the retail systems space. Here’s your briefing on the most important stories from the past five days, including Marks and Spencer. Amazon, Kingfisher, Macy’s, and Just Eat Takeaway.com. 1. Marks and Spencer hackathon explores generative AI […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Just Eat Takeaway.com develops AI powered chatbot with pilot set to launch soon in UK

Just Eat Takeaway.com is launching an AI chatbot. Consumers who opt-in will be able to use the assistant to build and customise their orders through text and voice ordering. The company says it will continue to develop this experience and plans to roll-out features that help people discover new partners, as well as offering personalised […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

M&M’s teams with Gopuff to deliver emergency candy refills on Halloween

An M&M’s Halloween Rescue Squad will aid holiday planners as Mars experiments with on-demand delivery. Dive Brief: M&M’s is partnering with quick delivery platform Gopuff to aid Halloween planners who underestimate how much candy is needed for the holiday, per a press release. Starting at 3 p.m. ET on Oct. 31, consumers who live in areas […]
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NRF Retracts Claim that Organized Retail Crime Accounted for ‘Nearly Half’ of Retail Shrink

The National Retail Federation (NRF) has updated a report that had attributed “nearly half” of 2021’s $94.5 billion in retail shrink to organized retail crime, saying the data point was part of two-year-old testimony to a U.S. Senate committee by Ben Dugan, former President of the Organized Retail Crime Resource Center. The NRF report was […]
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