#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Instacart announced Monday three new capabilities for its tech-integrated shopping carts: gamification, location-based coupons and “aisle...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
How Target made grocery a $24B business
#SmallBusiness Target says its food and beverage business is booming, with sales growing by more than $8 billion since 2019, to $24 billion, the retailer shared in a blog post and video August 7. Food and beverage items are in more than 55% o...
Friday, June 28, 2024
Amazon reignites Amazon Fresh store growth with 2nd New Jersey location
#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Amazon opened its second Amazon Fresh store in New Jersey on Thursday, the company said in an emailed announcement. The new supermarket i...
Monday, March 11, 2024
Walmart piloted an RFID receipt check. It didn’t work out.
#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Walmart recently discontinued a test of a machine that verified purchases people made using the retailer’s scan-and-go checkout solution ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Schnucks’ execs talk the art of customer relations
#SmallBusiness NEW YORK — Schnuck Markets is working to find the right balance between technology and digitization as it aims to focus on building its relationships with its customers and workers. To that end, the Midwestern grocery chain has...
How Instacart plans to gamify omnichannel shopping
#SmallBusiness A demo of Instacart’s Caper Cart at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show conference in New York City showed off the option for a consumer to spin a virtual wheel on the smart cart screen for the chance to win a prize. Doin...
Shipt unveils Innovation Lab, expands retail business accelerator
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Shipt announced at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show conference in New York City the creation of its new Innovation Lab to focus on “big thinking” delivery and product experiments to meet the needs of retai...
Monday, January 23, 2023
5 ways Target is pushing customer-driven innovations in omnichannel, grocery
#SmallBusiness NEW YORK — Target wants the retail industry to know it’s brought its “Targét" touch to grocery and omnichannel. Ease, joy and affordability are the pillars of the retailer’s framework for differentiating itself to customers, Chi...
Thursday, December 15, 2022
Albertsons turns to the metaverse
#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Albertsons on Cyber Monday started selling and delivering tangible items in the metaverse to customers, becoming the first grocer to do so,...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Self-checkout now comprises nearly 40% of grocery checkout options, study says
#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Consumers who use both self-checkout stations and staffed checkout lanes consistently have the highest retention rates and best customer va...
Monday, October 31, 2022
Shipt sued by DC, Minnesota attorneys general over worker classification
#SmallBusiness This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Shipt is facing separate lawsuits from the attorneys general for Minnesota and Washington, D.C., alleging the company misclassified its wor...
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Shipt expands nationwide reach by adding Walgreens and 7-Eleven
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Shipt announced on Thursday it has partnered with Walgreens and 7-Eleven, marking a large expansion for the Target-owned delivery company that increases the number of retail locations where its service is available b...
Thursday, December 2, 2021
CVS expands spoken prescription app feature chainwide
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: CVS announced on Monday the chainwide rollout of its Spoken Rx app feature that reads aloud prescription information for pharmacy customers who are blind or visually impaired. To use the feature, customers scan an RF...
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Walmart simplifies shopping for eco-friendly and healthy products
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: Walmart has created an online shopping destination called Built for Better to help customers find brands and products aligned with their healthy food, clean living or sustainability goals, Jane Ewing, Walmart's senio...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Shipt offers free membership for Visa credit card holders
#SmallBusiness Dive Brief: As it looks to build out its membership base, the company announced on Monday it's now providing trial periods for free and discounted membership to Visa consumer credit card holders. With the partnership, all Visa c...