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Online grocery sales slip year-over-year in June

- Retail
The U.S. online grocery market finished June with $7.1 billion in total sales, down 1.2% compared to last year’s $7.2 billion, according to the latest monthly Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded June 29-30, 2023.

Research shows smaller retailers will face tougher fight online against Walmart

- Retail
New research illustrates how much Walmart {{BB #:143789}} will continue to challenge regional grocers’ eGrocery business.

Empire Company and Longo’s unite for enhanced grocery home delivery

- Retail
Today, Empire Company Limited and Longo's have announced the completion of the integration of their two e-commerce businesses, Grocery Gateway and Voilà.

Online grocery continues to decline

- Analysis
The retail apocalypse, so much dreaded a year or two back, did not entirely materialize, but it was not completely illusory either, as we see from the closings of major flagship stores in downtowns like those of San Francisco and Chicago.

Analysis shows grocers foresee AI’s impact on staffing and software, but slow to adopt

- Retail
Incisiv, a next-generation industry insights firm that helps retailers and brands navigate digital disruption, and Wynshop, the leading provider of digital commerce and fulfillment solutions for local store-based retailers, today revealed the findings from their State of Digital Grocery Performance Scorecard for May 2023.

May online grocery sales slip year-over-year, pickup on the rise

- Retail
The U.S. online grocery market finished May with $6.9 billion in total sales, down 3.4% compared to last year’s $7.2 billion, according to the latest monthly Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey fielded May 30-31, 2023.

Walmart opens first market fulfillment center in Arkansas

- Retail
Walmart opened its first high-tech Market Fulfillment Center in Arkansas at Store 100 located at 406 S Walton Blvd in Bentonville on Monday, underlining the retailer’s strategic move toward expanding the use of its stores as fulfillment centers to enhance the shopping experience for customers everywhere.

Full Harvest speeds up food waste reduction with expansion to all grades of produce

- General News
Full Harvest, a proven leader in the battle against food waste, today announced its expansion beyond surplus to all USDA Grade 1 produce on its online marketplace for commercial buyers and sellers.

Giant Food launches e-commerce center in Virginia

- Retail
Giant Food, the leading Washington D.C. regional grocery chain, announces today the opening of a new Giant Delivers e-commerce fulfillment center in Manassas, Va. 

Supermarket online penetration slipped 2 percentage points in 2022 vs. 2021

- Retail
A new report examining where and how shoppers choose to buy groceries online found that while the overall base of average monthly users in the U.S. has increased by nearly 3 percentage points, the online penetration of Supermarkets declined by 2 points in 2022 compared to 2021 levels.