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Amazon, Costco and others knocked offline by web outage

Amazon.com, Costco, Home Depot and many other companies were knocked offline yesterday as a result of a disruption at Akamia Technologies, a global content delivery network. Akamai said it identified the problem and put a fix in place to resume normal operations.
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  1. Channel: Club

Uber Delivery Buildup Continues Expansion with Costco and Mercari Partnerships

Uber Technologies is continuing to scale its massive logistics buildup with two new retail partnerships. The ridesharing service will now provide same-day grocery delivery for Costco in Texas, and will help Mercari take its “no-meetup garage sale” marketplace nationwide. The Costco pilot will begin at 25 warehouse stores in Dallas, Austin, and Houston, with seven […]
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  1. Channel: Club

Costco, Uber To Test New Delivery Scheme

Benzinga reports that Uber and Costco “have entered into a grocery delivery pilot with 25 locations across the state of Texas. This deal marks Uber’s first pilot with a food wholesaler in the U.S. “Costco members could have their groceries delivered within hours with Uber and Uber Eats. In the coming weeks, seven additional Costco […]
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Tiffany and Costco settle suit over fake rings

Tiffany and Costco have settled an eight-year-old lawsuit brought by the jewelry brand over rings bearing its name sold by the warehouse club retailer. The settlement followed an appeals court ruling that Costco had acted in good faith when it marketed “Tiffany” rings to members, who were smart enough to have realized that the items […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Walmart Tests All-Self-Checkout Store

The Dallas Morning News reports that “Walmart is testing an all-self-checkout Supercenter in Plano at one of its biggest local stores and one where growing families can easily pile high a grocery cart. It’s calling the process ‘hosted checkout’ because employees are standing by to help if customers need it.” According to the story, “Walmart […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Big grocery and drug retailers grab more market share

America’s 50 largest food and drug retailers all saw their dollar sales grow during the novel coronavirus pandemic. The usual suspects — Walmart, Amazon.com, Kroger, Costco, Walgreens, Target, CVS, Albertsons, Ahold Delhaize and Publix — sit at the top of the list.
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  1. Channel: Club

Costco is ending senior hours

Costco will no longer offer senior hours after July 26. The warehouse club retailer has been allowing its members, 60 and older, to shop from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. local time twice a week at all its warehouses since March 2020. Costco added the option in response to health concerns raised by the outbreak of […]
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  1. Merchandising

5 Data Points You Should Have About Your Store Presence—But Are Probably Missing

Do you know what’s going on with your brand inside every store you’re in? Alright, in fairness that’s a tough question for anyone. How about this—do you know what’s going in inside the stores that have the biggest impact on sales and revenue? Can you prioritize your efforts where it matters most? The answer to […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Monday Eye-Opener: The Need For Larger Ecosystems

by Kevin Coupe Yahoo Finance had an interview with Scott Moses, managing director at PJ Solomon, in which he discussed the acceleration of e-grocery during the pandemic (he judged it “sustainable,” with plenty of room for growth) and the growing dominance of companies like Amazon and Walmart (he said both understand that “if you’re going […]
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In-Home Brand Experience with Brandshare’s Alan Verdun

The CPG Guys, Sri & PVSB, are joined in this episode by Alan Verdun, the President at brandshare, the leader in Connected Sampling that creates omnichannel brand experiences to accelerate purchase conversion. Through curated subscription boxes, loyalty programs and e-commerce sampling with digital connectivity, they can engage millions of consumers monthly – connecting brands to […]
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  1. Channel: Club

United States: warehouse clubs and supercenters market size 2018-2021

By 2021, it was forecast that the warehouse clubs and supercenters industry in the United States would generate a revenue of 493.29 billion U.S. dollars. The warehouse clubs and supercenters industry consists of retailers such as Sam’s Club (operated by Walmart), and Costco Corporation. Other competitors on a smaller scale include BJ’s Wholesale Club.
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

The MGM Deal: Amazon Has the Money and Needs the Content

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announces plans to buy MGM. Costco (NASDAQ: COST) slips a bit despite strong earnings. salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) rises, and Dick’s Sporting Goods (NYSE: DKS) swings higher thanks to strength in its golf business. In this episode of Motley Fool Money, Motley
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  1. Corporate Strategy

Your Views: Wage Disparities

On the subject of relative ages between senior executives and front line workers, MNB reader Craig Espelien wrote: I wanted to weigh in on the minimum wage/essential worker debate. I was talking with a friend last week and we were on different sides of the mandatory minimum wage issue. After digging into the real issue, […]
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  1. CPG & FMCG

In-Home Brand Experiences with brandshare’s Alan Verdun

The CPG Guys, Sri & PVSB, are joined in this episode by Alan Verdun, the President at brandshare, the leader in Connected Sampling that creates omnichannel brand experiences to accelerate purchase conversion. Through curated subscription boxes, loyalty programs and e-commerce sampling with digital connectivity, they can engage millions of consumers monthly – connecting brands to […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Instacart Bets on Robots to Shrink Ranks of 500,000 Gig Shoppers

Automating much of its operations could help the company lower prices and appeal to a mass market. But Instacart needs industry buy-in. Instacart Inc. has an audacious plan to replace its army of gig shoppers with robots—part of a long-term strategy to cut costs and put its relationship with supermarket chains on a sustainable footing.  The plan, detailed in documents reviewed […]
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Jason & Scot Show Episode 265 – News, retailer earnings, and listener questions.

A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. In episode 265 we cover some Amazon news including an anti-trust suit filed against them and their acquisition of MGM, earnings reports from Ulta, Costco, Dollar General, Best Buy, Burlington, and Gap, and we answer listener questions. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Podcast […]
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  1. Channel: Club

Costco is bringing full in-store sampling back

The club retailer is also reopening seating at its food courts as it plots a return to normal operations for both popular services. Dive Brief: Costco is bringing back its full sampling program and adding back in-store food court seating at all of its stores, Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti said during the company’s third-quarter […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Your Views: Gradually, Then Suddenly

Got the following email from an MNB reader who wanted to respond to our story about Kroger’s Florida-based strategy, which apparently focuses on e-commerce, distribution centers, and virtually no stores: I saw this Kroger truck driving in Orlando a couple days ago. This was taken in front of the Costco at Millenia Mall. As a […]
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