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November Online Grocery Sales Surge 29% To $12.3B

U.S. online grocery sales surged 29 percent year over year to $12.3 billion in November, driven by higher order frequency and a record share of users placing three or more orders during the month, according to the Brick Meets Click Grocery Shopper Survey, sponsored by Mercatus. Online grocery’s share of total weekly grocery spending climbed […]

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Coborn’s Adopts AI Solutions For Price, Promotions Optimization

Coborn’s Inc. has selected the Revionics AI Pricing Platform to optimize strategy across its family of supermarket brands. Coborn’s recently embarked on a multipronged growth strategy focused on expanding its core grocery business, acquiring new locations and developing modern, differentiated retail experiences such as the new Coborn’s Market & Table prototype. To maintain competitive price […]

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Instacart Launches First Grocery App Inside ChatGPT

Instacart is the first grocery provider to launch an app within ChatGPT, offering fully embedded shopping and “Instant Checkout” inside the artificial intelligence chat interface. The integration allows consumers to browse, build a cart and complete payment without leaving the ChatGPT conversation. With the new ChatGPT integration, users can shop with Instacart by typing a […]

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Schnucks Markets Deploys Domo Platform To Advance Data Integration, Analytics

Schnucks Markets Inc. has implemented the Domo AI and Data Products platform to centralize its data systems and improve operational decision-making across its 113 Midwest stores. With more than eight decades of operations, Schnucks had faced challenges managing data generated across stores, warehouses, vendors and internal departments. According to the company, reporting processes relied heavily […]

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Birdzi To Showcase Customer Intelligence Ecosystem At NRF Showcase

Birdzi has been selected to participate in the NRF Innovators Showcase 2026, taking place during NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show, Jan. 11-13 in New York City. Each year, the National Retail Federation selects 50 of the most forward-thinking retail technology companies to demonstrate their solutions at the showcase, a curated, immersive and interactive experience for show attendees. Birdzi […]

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Albertsons Cos. Introduces AI Assistant For Faster, Personalized Experience

Albertsons Cos. reports that it has reached a milestone in its digital transformation journey with the launch of the Albertsons AI shopping assistant, a web browser experience designed to make grocery shopping faster and more personalized. The Boise, Idaho-based retailer aims to reduce shopping time from an average of 46 minutes to four minutes. As […]

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Buehler’s Fresh Foods Achieves Increased Basket Lift With ECRS LoyaltyBot

Buehler’s Fresh Foods reports that it has experienced a 30 percent increase in average basket size using ECRS LoyaltyBot Basket Lift Campaigns at checkout, a feature within the CATAPULT loyalty automation suite. “We’ve always known LoyaltyBot’s basket lift campaigns were special,” said James Councill, loyalty and promotions business unit manager at ECRS. “But seeing how […]

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Swiftly, EG America Launch Alcohol Cashback In SmartRewards App

Swiftly has partnered with EG America to add a digital alcohol cashback feature to the SmartRewards app across the retailer’s convenience store brands. The new feature provides near-instant, supplier-funded cashback on beer, wine and spirits at stores including Cumberland Farms, Certified Oil, Fastrac, Loaf ‘N Jug, Kwik Shop, Turkey Hill, Quik Stop, Tom Thumb, Minit […]