Buehler’s Fresh Foods now offers online grocery shopping at its Dover Parkside location. Customers can order groceries online for curbside pickup the same day. Dover Parkside is the sixth Buehler’s store to offer this service, joining Wooster Milltown, Medina River Styx, Canton, Wadsworth and Ashland. The new service, powered by Buehler’s partner Freshop, allows customers […]
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Kum & Go Commits To Healthier Convenience Retailing With PHA, NACS
Kum & Go has made a commitment with the nonprofit Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), and the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) to offer healthier foods throughout its 400 locations. PHA has helped to expand healthier options in more than 2,500 convenience store locations nationwide. A NACS member, Kum & Go is a […]
Giant Eagle Joins InComm Healthcare’s Retail Network
InComm, a payments technology company, is adding multi-format food, fuel and pharmacy retailer Giant Eagle Inc. to InComm Healthcare’s OTC Network, which provides health plan supplemental benefit and incentive spending solutions designed to encourage healthy purchases. With the new partnership, the more than 5 million health plan OTC Network cardholders will now be able to […]
Focal Systems Shelf Camera Pilot With Wakefern Expanded
Wakefern Food Corp. is expanding its Focal Systems pilot from four to 50 stores. Focal, a provider of retail automation solutions, offers shelf camera-based computer vision systems that capture images of store shelves in order to calculate what is out of stock. “Focal Systems’ out-of-stock detection through computer vision and artificial intelligence has enabled us […]
Bakery Manufacturer, Supplier Dawn Foods Opens Digital Innovation Hub
Global bakery manufacturer and ingredients supplier Dawn Foods has opened its first-ever Digital Innovation Hub, located in Boston. Under the leadership of Chief Digital Officer Bob Howland, the Innovation Hub team will play an instrumental role in developing digital solutions for Dawn’s bakery customers. Dawn says it selected Boston for its Digital Innovation Hub due […]
C&S Wholesale Grocers Launches Delivery Alerts With FourKites
Keene, New Hampshire-based C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. says it is transforming the way its supply chain drives customers’ growth through innovative technology that provides real-time data and analytics. C&S has partnered with FourKites, a predictive supply chain visibility company, to provide customers with insight into its operations. Using FourKites’ platform, C&S Delivery Alerts sends logic-based […]
Whole Foods Installs New York WaterMaker For Test Kitchen Baking
About a year ago, New York WaterMaker introduced what it describes as the world’s first water source replication/customization system. Now the company is making an entry into the supermarket industry with the installation of a New York WaterMaker in Whole Foods Market’s new state-of-the-art test kitchen in Rockville, Maryland. Water is a main ingredient in […]
Column: Consumer Demand For Fresh Products Expands Role Of HPP
by Brad Key, Universal Pure Consumers’ shopping and eating behavior is changing, with many spending more time shopping the perimeter of the store for fresh products. In line with this trend, the perimeter—which includes fresh meat, deli, produce, bakery, seafood and prepared foods—is reported to comprise up to 40 percent of a store’s footprint in […]
Parker’s Kitchen Holds Grand Openings For Two Charleston-Area Stores
Parker’s Kitchen celebrated grand openings for two new state-of-the-art retail stores in the Charleston area of South Carolina on Sept. 19. The grand opening events included ribbon cuttings, as well as presentations of two $5,000 Fueling the Community donations to support the Berkeley County School District and Dorchester public schools. The Savannah, Georgia-based company’s 59th […]
Liviri Introduces Reusable, Insulated Last-Mile Solution For Grocers
Brick-and-mortar stores weren’t built to support the quick-turn online grocery shopping trend, creating challenges to support in-store grocery pickup and last-mile delivery. Fort Collins, Colorado-based Liviri has launched Liviri Shuttle, a family of durable, reusable insulated boxes designed to solve the inefficiencies of today’s e-commerce grocers. Liviri is currently using Shuttle products in active pilot […]
Robomart, Avery Dennison Offer Frictionless Checkout-Free Experience
Robomart, the Silicon Valley-based company known for its store-hailing autonomous vehicles, is collaborating with Avery Dennison Corp., a Fortune 500 company that designs and manufactures of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. Robomart founder and CEO Ali Ahmed says, “We are excited to cooperate with Avery Dennison, a global leader in RFID technology […]
Georgia Walmart Unveils Remodeled Store, First Walmart Health Center
Families in the Dallas, Georgia, area can now visit the remodeled Walmart Supercenter at 3615 Marietta Highway. The new store had its grand opening Friday, Sept. 13, along with the debut of the first-ever Walmart Health center. The Dallas supercenter remodel features enhanced customer shopping experience in many departments, like electronics, pharmacy and the vision […]
Inventor Creates DogSpot For The ‘Best Boys And Girls’
by Terrie Ellerbee/editor-Midwest, Southwest Chelsea Brownridge has built not a better mousetrap but a better doghouse as an ingenious solution for keeping doggos, puppers, fluffers and woofers safe outside when fur-parents shop. She is the co-founder of DogSpot, a company that provides high-tech doghouses that protect pets outside a store and enable their owners to […]
Mercato Continues To Innovate Its Online Shopping Platform For Independents
by Lorrie Griffith/editor-in-chief Online grocery shopping continues its growth trajectory. The percentage of U.S. consumers who purchased groceries online over the past year grew from about 23.1 percent to 36.8 percent, according to Coresight Research cited by Mercato, an online marketplace for independent grocers. Mercato also noted that, based on U.S. Census Bureau data, the […]
AmazonFresh Delivery Now Available In Houston, Minneapolis, Phoenix
On Aug. 22, Amazon released news that AmazonFresh has expanded to three new cities: Houston, Minneapolis and Phoenix. Prime members in those cities can now for products ranging from meat and seafood to fresh produce and everyday essentials for free two-hour delivery. “We’re thrilled to introduce AmazonFresh to Prime members in Houston, Minneapolis and Phoenix,” […]
Smart & Final And Toshiba Team To Continue Enhancing Store Operations
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions is setting out to optimize store operations for Smart & Final, the Los-Angeles, California-based value-oriented food and everyday staples retailer. Toshiba, the global market share leader for integrated in-store retail solutions, will help improve the Smart & Final customer experience by ensuring its store systems remain fully operational 365 days a […]
7-Eleven Launches Mobile Checkout In Manhattan
Irving, Texas-based 7-Eleven Inc. has introduced Mobile Checkout for a faster way to shop. Mobile Checkout lets customers in New York City skip the checkout line and pay for their purchases using the 7-Eleven app. This new shopping experience is integrated into the 7Rewards loyalty program, and customers can automatically earn and redeem any available […]
Hy-Vee Releases Statement Regarding Payment Card Data Incident
On Aug. 14, West Des Moines, Iowa-based Hy-Vee Inc. released a statement regarding an investigation the company is conducting into a data incident involving its payment processing systems. The company operates 260 stores in eight Midwest states. Hy-Vee takes the security of payment card data very seriously. We want to make customers aware of an […]
AFS Expands E-Commerce To 33 Corporate Stores
Salt Lake City, Utah-based wholesaler Associated Food Stores (AFS) and its Macey’s, Dan’s, Dick’s Market, Lin’s and Fresh Market locations will expand their relationship with Rosie to provide e-commerce curbside pickup to 33 of their locations by Oct. 31. The new service will be extended to locations from Cache Valley and Salt Lake City, to […]
Giant Eagle To Open Tech Annex In Pittsburgh Neighborhood
Giant Eagle Inc. has finalized a lease agreement to open a technology annex in Pittsburgh’s Lawrenceville neighborhood. The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company anticipates occupying the 23,000-s.f. space within the TechMill 41 development by early 2020, offering upwards of 150 current and new team members a modern and collaborative work environment where current digital offerings will be […]
