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AeroFarms microgreens are now available at all Amazon Fresh stores, building on national success of industry-first Whole Foods Market partnership.

THE PRODUCE MOMS announces their recent partnership with Amazon’s Influencer Program on Amazon’s Alexa platform.

Writing in Retail Wire, George Anderson discusses the proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger. If it is approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the new megachain would be required to divest at least 250-300 stores to satisfy antitrust provisions.

So far this year, Amazon has announced that it will cut 27,000 jobs nationwide. Some of this trimming must be viewed as an aftereffect of the pandemic, during which hiring at the online giant doubled. As shoppers return to stores, online ordering has dropped.

As some readers may remember, I am not a big fan of Amazon Fresh — at least not as a retail vendor. I have never been able to see it as a going concern.

Starting February 28, Amazon Fresh is rolling out a new fee structure for grocery deliveries using the Amazon Prime service.

Blue Apron is now offering meal kits without a subscription in the U.S. Amazon store. This is a continued expansion of the company’s third-party channel strategy to increase exposure to a wider pool of potential customers outside of its ecosystem.

Prime members in the U.S. can sign up for Grubhub+ for free and access unlimited $0 delivery fees from hundreds of thousands of restaurants on Grubhub for one year.

Edge by Ascential, whose technology-driven products power brands to win in digital commerce, today released its annual 2022 United States Retail Landscape and Go-to-Market Planning Report, which shows that ecommerce will continue to be the largest driver of retail growth in the US.

All in all, when a company unionizes, I suspect that in most cases the burden of the proof of innocence is on the employer, not on the workers.