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  1. Channel: Grocery

Hy-Vee RMN Deploys Carrot Ads Solution; Instacart Extends Ad Placements to Smart Carts

The 570-store Midwestern supermarket retailer Hy-Vee will expand its partnership with Instacart by adopting the platform’s Carrot Ads solution. This new integration will give Hy-Vee RedMedia access both to Instacart’s ad technology and its CPG advertising ecosystem, which delivers advertiser demand from more than 7,000 brands. All those brands will also now have access to […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

DoorDash Partners with Hustler Hollywood for V-Day Gifts, from Sweetly Romantic to NSFW

DoorDash has teamed with adult toy and apparel retailer Hustler Hollywood just in time for Valentine’s Day, offering deliveries of limited edition “sweet” and “spicy” flower bundles as well as other intimacy wellness products. The flower bundles will be available exclusively via DashMarts in five of the country’s most intimate cities, according to DoorDash data […]
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  1. Department: Food

Has Amazon Finally Cracked the Code for Grocery Retailing?

In 2020 my beloved local Fairway went under, and for five years the store space has languished, sitting dark and empty alongside several other shuttered chains: Modell’s, Subway (although somehow the Kohl’s has survived). However, one month ago the lights turned back on — with bright green flag chains strung across the parking lot and […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Emergency pizzas and autonomously farmed parsnips: this 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 Evri, Tesco, Dunelm, EE, OnBuy, Save A Lot, Domino’s, M&S, Sodexo, Instacart, Walmart, and Dorel Home. Waitrose and Just Eat In the coming weeks, millions of Just Eat Takeaway.com customers will be able to order […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Market Performance Group acquires Wodika Devine

HOLMDEL, N.J. — Market Performance Group (MPG) has acquired Wodika Devine, a renowned boutique manufacturers’ representative company. The acquisition is a natural progression for MPG, which continues to expand its retailer-specific capabilities to drive success at grocery retailers nationwide. Under the leadership of former Wakefern executive Chris Skyers, MPG’s Grocery team now has more than […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Grocery Stores Battling for a Larger Share of Stomach within the Grocerant Niche

  The grocerant niche, is a fusion of grocery store, restaurant, and convenience fresh prepared food meal and meal components has been evolving rapidly, driven by consumer demand for convenience, quality, and variety, according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Today consumers’ lifestyles continue to evolve and change, particularly post-pandemic, […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Harps Food Launches In-Store Retail Media via Grocery TV Network

Arkansas-based grocer Harps Food Stores is adding its 145 stores to the Grocery TV in-store retail media network. Harps will leverage Grocery TV’s end-to-end in-store retail media solution to engage shoppers with digital displays throughout its stores in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi and Oklahoma. The Harps team also will be using Grocery TV’s Content Management System to launch and track in-store digital […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

DoorDash Available at Wakefern Food Corp. Banners

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, DoorDash (NASDAQ: DASH), the local commerce platform, is excited to announce service with Wakefern Food Corp., the nation’s largest retailer-owned cooperative. The cooperative members own and operate 365 supermarkets under the ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, The Fresh Grocer, Fairway Market, Gourmet Garage, and Dearborn Market banners. Customers can now order groceries and […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Your Views:  “Kick Them To The Curb”

On Friday, we reported: In Connecticut, the Trumbull Patch reports that “a petition calling for enhanced equipment and improved conditions at a Stop and Shop grocery store in Trumbull has garnered more than 400 signatures as of Thursday night. “The petition, titled ‘Enhance Equipment and Conditions at Stop & Shop Trumbull CT,’ was launched earlier […]
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  1. Stores & Formats

NGA Unveils Creative Choice Award Winners

The National Grocers Association (NGA) has revealed the winners of the annual Creative Choice Awards, which “recognizes the best marketing and merchandising programs among independent grocery retailers.” The following are the 2024 Creative Choice Awards recipients: •  Connections Through Omnichannel Smaller operator (1-15 stores) Winner: Trig’s Cheese of the Month  Honorable Mention: Pay-Less Supermarkets Explore […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

Your Views:  No Real Future

MNB reader Rich Heiland had a thought about out continuing conversation about CVS’s shortcomings: I consider drug stores a commodity. None of them do anything to distinguish themselves from one another in any significant way. I live in a downtown area. There is a Rite-Aid a block or so away. I go there. If there […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Retail Customer Satisfaction On The Upswing

The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Retail and Consumer Shipping Study 2023-2024 is out, concluding that “overall customer satisfaction surging 4% to a score of 78.0 (out of 100).” According to the report, “More than 60% of retailers measured see their individual ACSI scores improve in 2024 …  Customer satisfaction with online retailers remains unchanged […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

SN Top 10: Kroger, Meijer and ShopRite top the week's headlines

 ​[[“value”:”In this week’s recap of the Top 10 most popular Supermarket News articles, the top story was Kroger revises forecast following tepid Q3. Kroger might already be feeling the effects of deflation, as the Cincinnati-based grocer reported a relative”]] 
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  1. Department: Food

There’s still growth in the freezer section

    [[“value”:” Consumers flocked to the frozen-food aisles during the peak of the pandemic, and some of that heightened demand appears to have staying power. Dollar sales of many frozen items have continued to show growth over the last three years, including frozen meals, desserts, and frozen fruits and vegetables. Although price inflation is […]
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  1. Corporate Strategy

UNFI names Andre Persaud as president and CEO of retail

    [[“value”:” Andre Persaud has been named president and CEO of retail for United Natural Foods Inc. Persaud will be in charge of UNFI’s Cub Foods and Shoppers Food Warehouse. He has spent almost 30 years in retail and has served in senior leadership roles with major food and pharmacy companies the last two […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

SN Top 10: Dollar General, Publix, Giant Eagle top the week's headlines

    [[“value”:” In this week’s recap of the Top 10 most popular Supermarket News articles, the top story was Publix introduces 9 limited-time private label ice cream flavors. Publix has launched nine limited-time own brand ice cream flavors for the fall / winter season. Most flavors are available in quart-size cartons; however, three flavors — Peppermint […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Wakefern will close five ShopRites in Albany, New York, area

    [[“value”:” Five ShopRite supermarkets will be closing in the Albany, N.Y., area, reports local news affiliate WROB. The closings are expected to happen around Dec. 9, and as many as 500 workers will be out of a job, according to Wakefern Food Corp., which owns the ShopRites.  Locations in the New York […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Grocers, brands lean hard into the benefits of free samples

    [[“value”:” With the potency of targeted online ads fading, more grocery retailers are back to pulling out free samples for shoppers, according to reporting from Bloomberg News. In August, Walmart rolled out a new retail media strategy that also leans into weekend-only demo stations where brands can show off their products in person. […]
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  1. Channel: Grocery

Village Super Market posts Q4 sales, profit growth

    [[“value”:” Village Super Market on Wednesday said same-store sales were up 3.2% for the fiscal fourth quarter and 3.5% for the full fiscal year, driven mostly by inflation. The sales gains helped fuel profit growth in the fourth quarter and year, which ended July 29. Quarterly net income rose 21%, to $15.3 million, […]
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Walgreens Agrees to $10B Sycamore Partners Acquisition

Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) has finalized a deal with private equity firm Sycamore Partners to take the company private after being in the stock market for nearly 100 years. Sycamore will pay $11.45 per share in cash for the Walgreens business, according to a company announcement. Shareholders can receive up to $3 more per share […]
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Kroger Announces Resignation of CEO Rodney McMullen

The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) today announced that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rodney McMullen has resigned from the Company following a Board investigation of his personal conduct that, while unrelated to the business, was inconsistent with Kroger's Policy on Business Ethics.
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Valentine’s Day flower sales could shift to FTD, other brands in 2025

1-800-Flowers still leads in US, FTD is gaining share 1-800-Flowers is the largest flower service by sales headed into Valentine’s Day 2025, according to Earnest credit card data. However, the industry stalwart is likely to lose share this season if recent trends continue. Access chart in Dash. 1-800-Flowers commanded 37.0% of Valentine’s Day flower sales […]
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