The Latest

  • In front of a fruit display, a hand holds a phone with a grocery app open.
    Image attribution tooltip
    alexsl via Getty Images

    Buy now, pay later explodes in grocery

    The percentage of online transactions involving groceries where shoppers opted to delay payment grew 40% during the first two months of 2023, according to data from Adobe.

  • Image of Grabango checkout-free app customized for Giant Eagle's GetGo convenience store chain
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Grabango
    Column

    The Friday Checkout: Giant Eagle pushes out its tech-minded leader

    The retailer brought robots to its stores, became a cashierless-checkout pioneer and hatched plans for a tech campus during more than a decade under CEO Laura Shapira Karet’s leadership.

  • The Trader Joe's sign is seen during the grand opening of a Trader Joe's on October 18, 2013 in Pinecrest, Florida.
    Image attribution tooltip
    Joe Raedle via Getty Images

    Trader Joe’s workers in California and New York file plans for union votes

    The employees are looking to join Trader Joe’s United, which currently represents a tiny fraction of associates at the chain’s more than 500 locations.

  • Four images of Instacart's app depicting Fresh Funds, Care Carts, a virtual storefront and shoppable recipes.
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Instacart

    Instacart scaling food as medicine with tools for health providers

    The company also announced new ad capabilities for weighted products and four new research studies in conjunction with a White House event focused on hunger and nutrition. 

  • Sam's Club
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Sam's Club

    Sam’s Club bridges online and in-store data gap

    Through the retailer’s new feature, advertisers can now gather real-time, first-party insights on members’ in-store purchases. 

  • A UNFI truck drives down a highway in fall
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Business Wire

    UNFI’s head of retail to depart

    Mike Stigers, who oversees the Cub Foods and Shoppers Food & Pharmacy chains, will stay on with the company until the end of May.

  • A Weis Markets store in Enola, Pennsylvania
    Image attribution tooltip
    Permission granted by Weis Markets

    Weis Markets names new private brands director

    The regional grocer has promoted Alison Gregas to the role.

  • Giant Eagle
    Image attribution tooltip
    Megan Poinski/Grocery Dive

    Giant Eagle CEO abruptly departs

    The company has parted ways with Laura Shapira Karet, who served as chief executive since 2012, and named Bill Artman as its interim leader.

  • Exterior of a grocery store
    Image attribution tooltip
    Retrieved from Google Maps on March 22, 2023

    Cardenas Markets names new CEO

    Eric Stover, who joined the grocery company three years ago and most recently served as chief merchandising officer, assumes the role previously held by Doug Sanders. 

  • UNFI
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of United Natural Foods, Inc.

    UNFI appoints new COO and president of wholesale

    The internal promotions come as the company revamps its leadership ranks and looks to improve efficiency through automation.

  • Harris Teeter logo
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Harris Teeter

    Harris Teeter revamps its marketing approach

    The Kroger-owned supermarket chain has rolled out a new logo and tagline as well as a modernized version of its familiar bread, fish and apple icon.

  • Four images of an app on a smartphone below the Careit logo
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Careit

    Food donation marketplace Careit expands nationwide

    Whole Foods Market, Target and Sprouts Farmers Market are among the retailers that currently use the food rescue app. 

  • Customers enter a Walmart store in San Leandro, California.
    Image attribution tooltip
    Justin Sullivan via Getty Images

    Walmart ramps up connected TV ambitions

    The retailer is integrating solutions from Innovid, including a creative optimization tool, with Walmart DSP as premium video becomes a retail media battleground.

  • Exterior of a Sprouts store
    Image attribution tooltip
    Retrieved from Sprouts Farmers Market on March 20, 2023

    Sprouts acquires two stores in Southern California

    The Phoenix-based grocer purchased two independently owned locations bearing its name in Chula Vista, California.

  • Salad bar in supermarket
    Image attribution tooltip
    Sam Silverstein/Grocery Dive

    Schnucks rolls out tech-enabled salad bars as it jumps back into self-service

    The grocer last Wednesday opened the first of 22 AI-driven self-service stations from Picadeli that it plans to install, and will debut two more this week, a company official said.

  • Box of NuZee single serve coffee
    Image attribution tooltip
    Retrieved from PRNewsfoto/NuZee.

    Wakefern brews up new private label coffee partnership

    NuZee will bring three new single-serve coffee brew-bag items to roughly 250 ShopRite stores under the Bowl & Basket brand.  

  • Three ice cream pints
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Albertsons

    Albertsons expands Open Nature and gives the brand a makeover

    The grocer has added 12 new plant-based products, including yogurt alternatives, and now offers 100% domestically raised, grass-fed Angus beef.

  • A large crowd of people pose at the front entrance of the 19,000th Dollar General store in Missouri during an opening ceremony.
    Image attribution tooltip

    Dollar General handout

    Dollar General investing $100M in its stores, with a focus on boosting labor

    The discounter recently opened its 19,000th location and saw sales as well as comps rise in its fourth financial quarter as inflation helped drive results.

  • Truck in front of supermarket
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Gatik
    Column

    The Friday Checkout: Automation takes center stage

    Grocers have been turning to a variety of tech, robotics and AI to boost customer experience, speed up processes on the retail floor and streamline supply chain management.

  • Person pushing a cat down a grocery aisle.
    Image attribution tooltip
    FG Trade via Getty Images

    What grocers can expect with food prices, inflation in 2023

    Although inflation is coming down, high grocery prices will continue and consumer price sensitivity is growing, experts from the Food Industry Association said Wednesday.

  • Kroger Ocado
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Kroger

    Kroger sees e-commerce as future profit engine

    The retailer is looking to its automation partnership with Ocado and its young retail media business to help achieve its goal of making money online, Chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen said Wednesday.

  • A UNFI truck drives down a highway in fall
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Business Wire

    UNFI adds robots, scanning tech to its ‘transformation agenda’

    The wholesaler and retailer unveiled plans for new digital capabilities at a Washington state distribution center a week after reporting that its profits took a nosedive in the second quarter.

  • Hand holding a phone with the Instacart App open.
    Image attribution tooltip

    Photo Illustration: Instacart; Getty Images

    Online grocery shopping habits shift among loyal consumers

    The base of monthly active users — the most engaged group of online shoppers — fell to its lowest level since March 2020, according to the latest monthly survey from Brick Meets Click and Mercatus.

  • Boxed
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Boxed

    Boxed considers filing for bankruptcy

    The e-commerce company, which sells bulk-sized pantry items and runs a fresh grocery delivery business in the New York City area, is facing tension with lenders amid a tightening cash position.

  • Truck in front of supermarket
    Image attribution tooltip
    Courtesy of Gatik

    Kroger to deploy driverless trucks in Dallas

    The grocer plans to begin using vehicles from autonomous-vehicle supplier Gatik to transport products between an e-commerce warehouse and several stores during the second quarter of 2023.