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  1. Channel: Delivery

Advertising in Everyday Moments with DoorDash’s Vassili Samolis

The CPG Guys are joined in this episode by Vassili Samolis, Head of Ad Product at DoorDash, one of the world’s leading local commerce platforms that helps businesses of all kinds grow and innovate, connects consumers to the best of their neighborhoods, and gives people fast, flexible ways to earn.  Follow Vassili on LinkedIn at: […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

The need for speed: here’s why Amazon has no desire to stop at one hour online deliveries

Amazon is starting one-hour and three-hour deliveries in parts of the US, with Udit Madan, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations commenting this week: “Our customers are busier than ever and are looking for new ways to save time while keeping their households running.” And the company has no intention of stopping there, observes Brittain […]
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  1. Department & Category

Portability, Platforms, and Prepared Foods: Where Foodservice Success Is Being Redefined

  The food industry in 2025–2026 is undergoing one of the largest structural shifts in decades. Consumers are eating differently, ordering differently, and discovering meals through digital platforms, convenience retail, and ready-to-eat formats. The biggest change is simple but powerful: Foodservice success today is driven by portability. Portable meals—food that can be ordered digitally, picked […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Restaurant Customer Disequilibrium: Why 2026 Is the Year Complacency Finally Breaks the Chains

  The restaurant industry didn’t just take its eye off the ball—it left the ball in the parking lot, went inside, and ordered the same combo meal it’s been eating for 25 years. Operators mastered brand protectionism, but somewhere along the way, many forgot the equally important skill of brand evolution. And now? The bill […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Uber Eats Launches Beta Version of AI-Powered Shopping Helper at Albertsons, Kroger and CVS

Uber Eats has introduced Cart Assistant, an AI-powered feature designed to help consumers build grocery baskets in seconds using simple text or image prompts. At launch, an initial beta version of Cart Assistant is available at dozens of grocery retailers across the country, including Albertsons, Aldi, CVS, Kroger, Safeway, Sprouts, Walgreens and Wegmans, with more […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Curating the Future of Local Restaurant Commerce: Perspective on Curate, Instant Apps, and the Long Arc of Foodservice Technology

  From Cash Registers to Clicks: A Brief Historical Context Foodservice technology has always evolved in response to friction according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. In the 1970s and 1980s, the friction was labor and accuracy—solved by electronic POS systems. In the 1990s and early 2000s, it was inventory […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Pinterest to Lay Off 15% of Workforce in Order to Invest in AI

Pinterest plans to lay off up to 15% of its employees, approximately 700 positions, and reduce office space in order to “reallocate resources” toward AI projects, according to an SEC filing.   The news comes amid a recent reshuffle of Pinterest’s C-suite: Former Amazon exec Claudine Cheever was brought in to fill the Chief Marketing […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Amazon Pulls the Plug on Fresh and Go Stores, Plans 100+ New Whole Foods

Amazon will close all remaining Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores to focus on its growing online grocery offering and the Whole Foods Market banner. Some of the locations set to be closed will be converted to Whole Foods, and the company also said it plans to open more than 100 new Whole Foods stores over […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

OpenAI’s Latest Mega-Fundraise, Big Tech Earnings Week, Amazon Layoffs?

Sam Altman is fundraising again and the next round could be historic. The OpenAI CEO is reportedly in early talks with Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds about raising $50 billion, a round that could give his company a valuation between $750 billion and $850 billion and eclipse its own record-setting $40 billion SoftBank investment fulfilled […]
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  1. Data & Insights

A Small Change That Saves Time, Protects Margins, and Signals Hospitality

  Delivery platforms like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub have permanently altered the economics of foodservice. They drive incremental sales but extract a heavy toll—often 15–30% in commissions—at the same time operators face a shrinking labor pool and rising wage pressure. The modern restaurant reality is clear: doing more with fewer people is no longer […]
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  1. Channel: Dollar/Value

Dollar General Expands Delivery to 17,000+ Stores, Concentrates on Rural Areas

Seeking to expand same-day delivery access to traditionally underserved rural areas, Dollar General now offers delivery service via the MyDG app and the retailer’s website from more than 17,000 stores. This growth has been complemented by Dollar General’s ongoing partnership with DoorDash, serving 18,000+ Dollar General stores, and the company’s recently launched Uber Eats partnership, […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

AI Davos: Four Reflections From The World’s Most Exclusive Tech Conference

Regards from the train leaving Davos, a beautiful ride flanked by sharp mountains, small villages, and lots of snow. The past week’s World Economic Forum here brought leaders in politics, finance, and technology together for conversations about the future of business and the world. The entire event took place along one main street in the […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Gap Casts Paramount Exec as Chief Entertainment Officer, Opens Office on Sunset Blvd.

Gap Inc. has named Pam Kaufman to the newly created position of EVP, Chief Entertainment Officer, reporting directly to Gap CEO Richard Dickson. The role is designed to build and scale Gap’s entertainment, content and licensing platform across music, TV, film, sports, gaming, consumer products and cultural collaborations as Kaufman leads the development of Gap’s […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

AI and the Age of Individual Empowerment

Artificial intelligence adoption is starting to split into two trajectories. Enterprises eager to implement the technology are straining to do so effectively. Their large-scale, ambitious pilots have struggled to get past entrenched organizational habits, new security considerations, and the technology’s limits. Individuals, meanwhile, are gaining access to a new set of powerful tools, like Claude […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Aldi to Open 180+ Stores in 2026 with Plans for Continued Expansion Through 2030

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary in the U.S., Aldi is expanding its footprint with plans to open more than 180 stores by the end of this year —  and further expansion is in the cards in through 2030. With the addition of these new stores, Aldi will operate a total of nearly 2,800 locations […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Ahold Delhaize to Close 6 Centralized DCs as Store-Based Fulfillment Flourishes

By the end of Q1 2026, Ahold Delhaize USA will shutter a centralized ecommerce fulfillment center in Manassas, Va. as well as five DCs in Pennsylvania in a move marking the supermarket giant’s transition to more local, store-based fulfillment models. The DCs slated for closure serve Ahold’s Giant Food and The Giant Company banners, and […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Gopuff enlists Rick Ross and Wiz Khalifa for rapid delivery of New Year’s Eve party essentials

Gopuff is teaming up with hip hop big hitters Rick Ross and Wiz Khalifa to ensure New Year’s Eve parties across the US are fully stocked. On December 31st, Ross becomes Gopuff’s “Chief Delivery Boss” and calls Khalifa for backup, bringing rapid delivery of Luc Belaire bubbly and McQueen and the Violet Fog Gin (for […]
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  1. Data & Insights

DoorDash-ChatGPT Integration Combines Recipe Inspiration with Practical Grocery Lists

DoorDash is the latest platform to enable key elements of the shopping journey within ChatGPT consumer sessions, via a new partnership with ChatGPT parent OpenAI. Consumers using ChatGPT for inspiration can turn the recipe suggestions into grocery orders that are delivered from local stores in less than an hour, on average. Earlier this month, Instacart […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

DoorDash’s Zesty Is Not a Detour—It’s the Next Logical Step Toward the Grocerant Future

  For more than a decade, DoorDash has demonstrated a rare ability to listen to consumers, interpret behavioral shifts, and operationalize them at scale. What began as a last-mile logistics solution for restaurants has evolved into one of the most influential food-access platforms in North America. The introduction of Zesty, DoorDash’s AI-powered restaurant discovery app, […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Listen Now: AI Reality Check — Klaviyo CEO on What’s Hype, What Matters & What Comes Next

What a note to end the year on — our last episode of the Retail Remix podcast in 2025 features a fast, fun conversation with Andrew Bialecki, the founder and CEO of Klaviyo. We cover everything from the potential of extraterrestrial life in the universe to what AI will do for retail (and what it […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Kroger’s 2026 Plans: Fresh E-Grocery Approach & An Outside CEO Hire

As Kroger released its third-quarter results late last week, it also revealed that it would write Ocado a $350 million check as a “one-off payment” to compensate  the technology company for the closure of three of robotic warehouses and the decision to “scrap plans for another facility.” At the same time, Kroger has revealed that […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Kroger to Increase New Store Builds by 30% in 2026

Kroger has kicked off a physical store expansion program, beginning with the completion of four major store projects and groundbreaking for 14 locations in its Q4, which ends in February 2026. The supermarket giant expects to increase new store builds by 30% in FY 2026. “Earlier this quarter, we announced expansion plans for Harris Teeter, […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Amazon: “Supercharging” Its Grocery Business

The Information has a piece about how “Amazon is planning a new ultrafast delivery offering for groceries and other daily essentials in major urban areas in the U.S., a critical test of the e-commerce giant’s ambitions to sell more daily staples to consumers and supercharge its grocery business. “In recent months, Amazon has approached large […]
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  1. Department: Food

The Great Stay-at-Home Shift: How the New HDTV Lifestyle Is Reshaping Retail Foodservice

  Retail foodservice continues to be transformed by a powerful force I first identified more than a decade ago, by Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru®, at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®, Tacoma, WA.  Back in 2012, I called it “The 65-Inch HDTV Syndrome.” Today, with the average U.S. household TV now measuring 72 inches and home […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Amazon Tests 30-Minute Deliveries in Direct Challenge to DoorDash and its Ilk

Amazon is testing ultra-fast delivery in parts of Seattle and Philadelphia capable of bringing thousands of household essentials and groceries to customers’ doorsteps in 30 minutes or less. Called Amazon Now, the offering is a direct challenge to delivery apps like DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub, whose core proposition is local food and essentials delivered […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Stuck in the Middle: What the Grocery “Mushy Middle” Feels Like — A Grocerant Guru® Take

There’s a physical sensation to being “stuck in the middle” of the grocery sector — a vibration between two magnets pulling in opposite directions. The discounters (Aldi, Lidl, WinCo and others) are tugging hard on price-sensitive shoppers while tech-forward giants (Walmart, Amazon-adjacent players) and premium specialists pull on convenience, assortment and experience. In the middle […]
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  1. Operations & Supply Chain

Pacsun, Camping World and Lush Join the Uber Delivery Portfolio

No one could accuse Uber Eats of the foolish consistency that’s the hobgoblin of little minds, as Ralph Waldo Emerson phrased it. Moving ever-farther from its roots in food delivery, the platform has added the youth-oriented retailer Pacsun, outdoor gear leader Camping World and Lush, maker of fresh, handmade, ethically sourced bath and body products, […]
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Walmart to Expand Digital Shelf Labels Chainwide

Walmart will deploy digital shelf labels (DSLs) chainwide this year, doubling the approximately 2,300 U.S. locations currently using the technology (Walmart U.S. operates more than 4,600 stores). With more than 120,000 items in a typical Walmart store, managing price changes manually requires significant associate hours. Additionally, these DSLs are equipped with LED lights that make […]
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