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Online grocery sales rise in May versus year ago

- Retail
Total online grocery sales finished the month of May at $7.1 billion, 1.7% higher versus a year ago, as inflation is motivating many customers to adapt where and how they shop online for groceries, according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded May 28-29, 2022.

Top quarter of retailers vastly outsell average online

- General News
Conventional grocery stores in the top-performing quartile generated average weekly online grocery sales of $43,895, 6.3 times higher than the median sales of $6,934 for rest of the stores, according to the Brick Meets Click eGrocery Performance Benchmarking 2021 Wave.

April online grocery sales drop 4% from last year

- Retail
April online grocery sales pulled back 3.8% versus last year, finishing at $8.1 billion, as total order volume dropped 5.8% driven by lower order frequency and a slightly smaller monthly active user (MAU) base, according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded April 28-29, 2022.

March U.S. eGrocery sales fall year-over-year

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In March, total U.S. online grocery sales pulled back 6% to $8.7 billion versus March 2021’s record high of $9.3 billion, according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded March 28-29, 2022. Total sales for 1Q 2022 ($8.5B in January and $8.7B for both February and March) finished just 2.5% lower compared to a year ago.

Long-time grocery industry leader Bill Bishop passes away

- Retail
Bill Bishop's experience in the food retail business reaches from the earliest introduction of the UPC code to the online grocery revolution that was fast-tracked due to the COVID pandemic.

U.S. online grocery sales grow 9% year-over-year in February

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The total U.S. online grocery market generated $8.7 billion in sales during February, a gain of 8.5% compared to the same period a year ago, according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded February 26-27, 2022.

Established customers drive 3.5 times more eGrocery revenue than new ones

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New research from Brick Meets Click quantifies the considerable dividends generated by long-term customer relationships

Online grocery pickup defying downward YOY sales trends

- Retail
Total January sales were down 8% versus the prior year with mixed results across the three receiving methods (Pickup, Delivery, and Ship-to-Home). Only Pickup made sales gains, growing almost 2% to $4.0 billion.

U.S. grocers’ same-store online sales drop from last year

- General News
Conventional grocers reported a 6.8% drop in online grocery sales on a same-store basis during the 12 weeks ending September 28, 2021, versus the prior year, according to the Brick Meets Click eGrocery Performance Benchmarking 2021 Wave.

U.S. online grocery sales hit nearly $100B in 2021

- Analysis
The U.S. online grocery market captured $8.9 billion in sales during December as over 69 million households shopped online to satisfy grocery-related needs, according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded December 29-30, 2021.