Tag: ecommerce

Shipt today announced its largest nationwide expansion in three years, adding its same-day delivery services to more store locations and reaching millions of potential new customers.

It is by now obvious that the future of retail grocery will contain some mix of online and in-store shopping. But no one knows how this mix will break down.

As part of Instacart's new next-gen fulfillment initiative, the company will pair Fabric software and robotics with Instacart technology and shoppers to power a new fulfillment process within dedicated warehouses and existing retailer locations.

This marks Uber’s first major grocery expansion in the U.S., more than doubling the availability of the offering this week, and accelerating its grocery rollout this year with a 1,200-store partnership with the Albertsons Companies, Inc.

Expanded state roll-outs of SNAP redemption online in 2020 grew the value from less than $3 million in February to more than $246 million in December.

Albertsons will offer more than 40,000 grocery items from stores for delivery via DoorDash, including fresh and prepared food, core grocery, floral and convenience items at select stores.

IRI found that among new online shoppers as of the start of the pandemic in March 2020, 50% continue to buy online and about 20% have become heavy hitters.

This marks Kroger's entry into the Florida market with an e-commerce delivery service that combines vertical integration, machine learning, and robotics with affordable, friendly, and fast delivery of grocery items and fresh food.

The total U.S. online grocery market posted $9.3 billion in sales during January as more than 69.7 million U.S. households placed on average 2.8 orders across delivery, pickup and ship-to-home according to the Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded Jan. 28-31, 2021.

The company isn't taking humans entirely out of the process, particularly for items like fresh produce.