Articles Tagged with ''grocery store trends''

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Stop & Shop debuts driverless grocery vehicles

The vehicles will address consumers’ desires to select their own fresh produce when shopping online or mobile.
January 16, 2019
Stop & Shop, Quincy, Mass., launched driverless grocery vehicles in the Greater Boston area.
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Study: Online grocery sales will quadruple by 2023

Most of the market’s growth has occurred since 2016, as e-commerce platforms and conventional grocery stores increased their participation and geographic footprint with expanded service areas.
October 19, 2018
Online grocery sales more than tripled between 2013-2018, but, between 2018-2023, online grocery sales will more than quadruple, according to “Online Grocery Shopping in the U.S., 2nd Edition,” a report published by Packaged Facts, Rockville, Md.
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Mi9 Retail to acquire MyWebGrocer

The addition of MWG enhances the Mi9 Retail suite, giving the company an entry into the grocery vertical and positioning Mi9 even more aggressively within fast-moving consumer goods.
October 19, 2018
Mi9 Retail, Miami, Fla., announced plans to acquire MyWebGrocer (MWG), Colchester, Vt.
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Study reveals brick-and-mortar grocery is still king

Despite a 4-point year-over-year increase, the number of regular online food and beverage purchasers is still only 17%.
October 18, 2018
Food and beverage categories have seen an increase over the last two years, as many major retailers experienced same-store sales rise thanks to an increase in median income and a low unemployment rate, according to the 6th Annual Food and Beverage Consumables Study.
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Poll: Consumers slow to migrate to online grocery shopping

About one-third of Americans (32%) shop for groceries in person more than once a week, about half (49%) shop once a week and 18% go less often than that.
August 21, 2018
Despite a profusion of online services that offer Americans an alternative to spending time in the grocery store, 84% of U.S. adults report they never order groceries online and 89% never order meal preparation kits, according a poll conducted by Gallup, Washington, D.C.
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INS aims to put grocery shopping on blockchain

INS builds a scalable blockchain-based platform enabling consumers to buy groceries directly from manufacturers.
July 11, 2018
INS, a new global project by the founders of Instamart, Moscow, announced an initiative to build a decentralized grocery shopping ecosystem based on blockchain technology.
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Survey shows industry merging physical, digital retail

This year’s data reveals that 43% of store-based retailers surveyed expect a net increase in the number of brick-and-mortar stores they operate by the end of 2018 compared with 2017.
March 16, 2018
Traditional and online retailing are increasingly intertwined, as customers shop across touchpoints and use both platforms, according to the annual State of Retailing Online study released by the National Retail Federation (NRF), Washington, D.C., and Forrester, Cambridge, Mass.
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