US: Webster Price Chopper latest retailer to partner with Instacart
Grocery delivery service Instacart is increasing its presence in Central Massachusetts with a new partnership with Price Chopper in Webster. The service at the East Village Square supermarket on Worcester Road will begin Thursday. Via a smartphone app or website, a customer can order groceries and an Instacart employee will deliver them to the front door.
Source: wbjournal.com
US: SpartanNash brings grocery delivery to Fargo Family Fare Supermarkets
Retailer-wholesaler SpartanNash said its Family Fare Supermarkets in Fargo, North Dakota, now offer same-day grocery delivery via third-party delivery service Instacart. Customers in the area can choose from any of the two Family Fare stores in Fargo and one in West Fargo for placing and receiving their orders. Through delivery.shopfamilyfare.com, shoppers can choose their produce, dairy, meat, frozen foods and everyday essentials for delivery in as little as an hour.
Source: progressivegrocer.com
US: United Supermarkets improves ecommerce customer engagement
United Supermarkets, a division of Boise, Idaho-based grocery company Albertsons Cos., has upgraded its ecommerce platform to improve customer engagement and enhance metrics for the mobile shopper app, which should drive operational efficiencies. The STREETside platform, powered by software and digital media company MyWebGrocer (MWG), now supports Sponsored Listings and Category Header Ads, two solutions that support enhanced merchandising and collaboration between United and its CPG partners. The Sponsored Listing solution enables CPGs to invest with grocers to increase native product placement and sales. Meanwhile, the Category Header ads better enable CPG brands to reach and influence United shoppers on their path to purchase.
Source: progressivegrocer.com
Grocery delivery service Instacart is increasing its presence in Central Massachusetts with a new partnership with Price Chopper in Webster. The service at the East Village Square supermarket on Worcester Road will begin Thursday. Via a smartphone app or website, a customer can order groceries and an Instacart employee will deliver them to the front door.Source: wbjournal.com
US: SpartanNash brings grocery delivery to Fargo Family Fare Supermarkets
Retailer-wholesaler SpartanNash said its Family Fare Supermarkets in Fargo, North Dakota, now offer same-day grocery delivery via third-party delivery service Instacart. Customers in the area can choose from any of the two Family Fare stores in Fargo and one in West Fargo for placing and receiving their orders. Through delivery.shopfamilyfare.com, shoppers can choose their produce, dairy, meat, frozen foods and everyday essentials for delivery in as little as an hour.Source: progressivegrocer.com
US: United Supermarkets improves ecommerce customer engagement
United Supermarkets, a division of Boise, Idaho-based grocery company Albertsons Cos., has upgraded its ecommerce platform to improve customer engagement and enhance metrics for the mobile shopper app, which should drive operational efficiencies. The STREETside platform, powered by software and digital media company MyWebGrocer (MWG), now supports Sponsored Listings and Category Header Ads, two solutions that support enhanced merchandising and collaboration between United and its CPG partners. The Sponsored Listing solution enables CPGs to invest with grocers to increase native product placement and sales. Meanwhile, the Category Header ads better enable CPG brands to reach and influence United shoppers on their path to purchase.Source: progressivegrocer.com
Sweden: Axfood targets online, digital, health and lifestyle
Axfood’s Hemköp supermarket banner is introducing digital receipts, citing research that 44% of Swedes want digital receipts, while only 3% keep their receipts after food shopping. Customers can opt into the facility online or in Hemköp’s app. Commenting on the announcement, IT Manager Mats Axellie said, ‘The initiative is long-awaited and the benefits are many for both customers and employees. We encourage our customers to choose the receipt digitally, so we also save on all the trees of the earth’.Source: retailanalysis.igd.com
French Q1 online retail sales rose 13%
Online retail sales in France rose 13% to 22.3bln euros ($26.10bln) in the first quarter, said the French E-Commerce Federation (Fevad), highlighting growth in a sector that has seen Amazon and others make in-roads. Amazon bought grocery chain Whole Foods Market for $13.7bln last year, and expectations that Amazon could focus next on Europe have spurred France’s top retail companies to improve their own online offerings. The Fevad federation said that some 37.4mln people made online purchases in the quarter, an increase of 893,000 from a year ago. Sales generated on web-based marketplaces rose 12%, while sales via tablets and smartphones rose 25%. The average value of the basket fell 4.5% to 65 euros in the first quarter, albeit with an increase in the frequency of purchases, added Fevad.Source: reuters.com
India: Samara Capital in talks to buy Aditya Birla Group's More
Samara Capital is in advanced talks to buy Aditya Birla Retail’s (ABRL) supermarket chain More for about Rs25bln (365,664,929.51USD), people with knowledge of the development told ET. The private equity firm has almost completed its due diligence of the retailer, the officials added. The fourth-largest supermarket chain in the country after Future Group, Reliance Retail and DMart, ABRL ended the last fiscal with 493 More branded supermarkets and 20 hypermarkets, covering more than 2 m sq ft of retail space. “Samara will control operations and Aditya Birla Group will no longer run the company,” one person privy to the deal said. Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
UK: Blakemore sells Gateshead depot to United Wholesale Grocers
Blakemore is to sell off its Gateshead depot to fellow Landmark buying group member United Wholesale Grocers (UWG). The Tyne and Wear depot will be the Scotland-based wholesaler's first cash and carry south of the border. Announced by UWG at Landmark’s annual conference in Alicante in Spain, the deal ends long-standing attempts by Blakemore to offload its entire wholesale operation as a going concern. Source: betterretailing.com
UK: Morrisons launches new measures to tackle plastic pollution
Shoppers are being encouraged to bring their own containers for meat and fish at Morrisons as the retailer announced a number of measures to reduce plastic pollution on Wednesday (24 May). The supermarket giant, which has stores in Rochdale and Heywood, has also committed to making all of its own-brand plastic packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable no later than 2025. Morrisons will also be one of the signatories to WRAP’s UK Plastics PACT, an industry initiative which aims to transform the way businesses use plastic and prevent plastics polluting the environment.Source: rochdaleonline.co.uk
Spain: Mercadona launches online pilot
Mercadona has launched a pilot in Valencia to test, learn and improve its online shopping service for its clients, the ‘boss’. Opened on 21 May 2018, the new version of the online shopping system coexists with the current one, which is still available nationwide. The test version covers Valencia’s city centre and will be expanded to the wider city and nearby towns in months to come. Other cities will be serviced in years to come, with no specific dates given. A new website and mobile app (iOS and Android) are part of the new model. Mercadona says that these services are more intuitive and easier to navigate, informed by Mercadona’s co-innovation centres. A notable addition is pictures of each product, with relevant product details. The assortment is similar to the physical stores.Source: retailanalysis.igd.com
Growth quarter for 7-Eleven Malaysia
In a first quarter marked by expansion and sales growth, 7-Eleven Malaysia saw its net profit soar 11.6% from the same period a year ago. Total sales growth for the quarter was 2.5%, while the gross profit margin continued to improve, says the company. Driven by store openings, higher customer counts and improved consumer promotions, the group’s revenue for the quarter grew by 2.5% to RM535.7mln (US$134.4mln).Source: insideretail.asia