Food City has launched its new same-day delivery service, now available to more than 290,000 Knoxville, Tennessee, residents. The program is made possible through a joint partnership between the local retail supermarket chain and Instacart, a nationwide on-demand grocery delivery service. To take advantage of the convenient new service, shoppers can visit foodcitydelivers.com or download the […]
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Walmart Expands Delivery Pilot, Partners With Google Assistant
Walmart is stepping up its online ordering and delivery programs. The retailer is expanding its home delivery pilot program to Dallas and Orlando, and is partnering with Google to offer voice shopping via Google Assistant. See statements from Mike Turner, VP of ecommerce operations, and Marc Lore, president and CEO of Walmart U.S. ecommerce, below. […]
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Target Restock Expands To Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth
Target expanded Target Restock, a new next-day “essentials” delivery service the Minneapolis-based retailer has been testing, to Dallas-Fort Worth and Denver on Aug. 15. Shoppers visit Target Restock and choose from more than 15,000 products, ranging from personal and baby care items to cleaning supplies. Orders can weigh up to 45 pounds, which Target says is equivalent to what […]
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Stop & Shop To Begin Same-Day Delivery In Boston With Instacart
The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. and on-demand grocery delivery service Instacart plan to bring same-day delivery to Stop & Shop customers in the city of Boston. A start date for the service was not announced. Stop & Shop customers can use instacart.com or the Instacart app to fill their virtual carts with Stop & […]
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Publix And Instacart Expanding Delivery Service Due To Demand
Nearly a year after they first formed a partnership that covered some stores, Publix and Instacart are gearing up to offer same-day grocery delivery to all Publix customers by 2020. Publix and Instacart began same-day grocery delivery to select customers in July 2016 via delivery.publix.com and instacart.com. Customers have embraced the service, the companies say. Publix […]
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Walmart Testing Associate Delivery
In addition to Online Grocery Pickup, two-day free shipping and its new Pickup Discount program, Walmart likely will add another service to its e-commerce platform: associate delivery. The service currently is being tested in three of the retailer’s stores—two in New Jersey and one in northeast Arkansas. Marc Lore, president and CEO of Walmart U.S. E-Commerce, […]
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Target To Test Next-Day Delivery Service In Minneapolis Area
Target plans to roll out a next-day delivery pilot in the Minneapolis area this summer. The program, called Target Restock, will allow shoppers to order household essentials—such as laundry detergent, paper towels, granola bars and coffee—and have them delivered the following day. Select team members at Target headquarters are now testing Target Restock, the company […]
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FreshDirect Taking Service To Washington, D.C.
FreshDirect, an online fresh food retailer in the Northeast, is expanding its service to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. FreshDirect says it will start delivering farm-fresh produce, high-quality meat, seafood, dairy, prepared meals, and grocery and household staples to the doors of residents living in D.C., Arlington and McLean, Virginia, and Bethesda, Maryland, beginning April […]
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Giant Eagle Pilots Home Delivery In Pittsburgh’s South Hills
Giant Eagle has rolled out Curbside Express Home Delivery in Pittsburgh’s South Hills region, with a targeted outreach to Village Square Market District customers who frequently use the store’s Curbside Express pickup service. In the coming weeks, the company plans to expand the home delivery pilot to communities in five South Hills zip codes, including […]
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7-Eleven Completes 77 Drone Deliveries
7-Eleven and Flirtey, a drone delivery service, have completed 77 autonomous drone deliveries to customers’ homes in the U.S. The test began in July with the world’s first autonomous drone delivery to a customer’s residence. Flirtey conducted regular weekend deliveries during November from a 7-Eleven store in Reno, Nevada, to a dozen select customers who were […]
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Kohler Co.’s Woodlake Market Launches Online Grocery Service
Woodlake Market, a Kohler Co.-owned grocer located in Kohler, Wisconsin, has launched an online shopping service, Woodlake Market Online. The store, part of the Destination Kohler resort, partnered with Rosie to introduce grocery pickup and delivery options seven days a week via the Rosie app online or on any mobile device. “Our mission has and […]
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Randalls Rolls Out Grocery Delivery Service In Houston And Austin
Randalls has launched a new grocery delivery program with a fleet of state-of-the-art home delivery trucks, offering customers convenient and time-saving grocery shopping, delivered right to their door, according to the company. The program rolled out Thursday, and customers will be able to access the service online at shop.randalls.com, as well as through the Randalls […]
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Lone Star State Shoppers Love To Click And Collect
by Terrie Ellerbee/editor-Southwest What a difference a year has made for shoppers who’d rather swing by and have their groceries brought to them than cart around the store and wait in the checkout lane. H-E-B Curbside, Kroger ClickList and Walmart’s pickup service (no clever name yet from Bentonville) are making the lives of young mothers, […]
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Instacart Rolls Out Service In Dallas
Instacart, the retail delivery service whose personal shoppers hand pick and deliver items from local stores, has expanded into Dallas, the fourth city it serves in Texas. As of Aug. 1, Dallas residents looking to purchase from Whole Foods Market, Central Market, Petco, Spec’s, Total Wine & More, Kroger and Tom Thumb can have their order delivered […]
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Foodservice Delivery Starting To Win Over Restaurant Drive-Thru Visits
Foodservice delivery is winning visits at the expense of restaurant drive-thrus, reports The NPD Group, a research and information company. Over the past four years, delivery has grown by 69 million visits (orders), while drive-thru traffic fell by 128 million visits from May 2012 through May 2016, according to a recently released NPD report on […]
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UPS, 7-Eleven Expand Locker Program, And More…
C-Store News In Brief… UPS is expanding its smart locker program from nine locations in Chicago to 300 locations nationwide. The UPS Access Point lockers are alternate delivery locations that are usually outside and accessible 24 hours a day at convenience stores and other locations. Online retailers can integrate the locker delivery addresses into their […]
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Walmart Annual Meeting: McMillon Says Company Will ‘Reimagine Retail’
On Friday, June 3, at Walmart’s 46th annual shareholders meeting, President and CEO Doug McMillon urged the company’s 2.3 million associates to get behind the company’s vision, saying, “We have the opportunity to reimagine retail again.” As part of this “reimagining,” McMillon announced that Walmart is now working with Uber and other partners to test […]
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Wendy’s To Add Self-Service Kiosks And More…
Foodservice News In Brief… During the second half of the year, Wendy’s will add self-service kiosks to more than 6,000 of its U.S. locations in an attempt to control labor costs. Although franchisees can decide whether to deploy the kiosks, some franchise locations already have been raising prices to offset minimum wage increases… Amazon Prime […]
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H-E-B To Offer Grocery Delivery To Texans With Shipt
H-E-B and Shipt, an app-based grocery delivery service that currently serves 25 major metropolitan areas in the U.S., have formed a partnership designed to bring grocery delivery to customers in Texas. The partnership will launch in San Antonio, where H-E-B is headquartered, on May 25, with plans to expand to Houston, Austin, Dallas and more markets […]
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Dunkin’ Donuts Expands Test Delivery In Metro Boston, And More…
Foodservice News In Brief… Dunkin’ Donuts has expanded its test delivery service to the Boston metro area. Dunkin’ Donuts is partnering with delivery companies DoorDash and delivery app Favor to launch the service. Product delivery is aimed at less than 45 minutes. The company is continuing to evaluate a possible national rollout in the future. […]