Meijer and Shipt to expand store-to-door grocery delivery service to 2.5m households in Chicago area

By Adi Menayang

10-Jul-2017 Last updated on 20-Oct-2017 at 23:17 GMT

Adding the massive Chicagoland to its service area, Meijer and Shipt’s grocery delivery partnership now spans all of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

Grocery stores lead way for online ice cream orders, says 1010Data

30-Jun-2017

By Adi Menayang

The center of the store may be where growth of online sales and orders thrive, but consumers are getting more comfortable clicking away to buy products from other aisles to. According to 1010DATA, online ice cream orders have grown threefold since 2014...

Mercato founder and CEO: 'Nobody has made it easy for the independent grocer'

23-Jun-2017

By Adi Menayang

Part delivery service, part online storefront, by working exclusively with independent retailers, Mercato founder Bobby Brannigan is confident he has carved out a space where his company can thrive in a post Amazon-Whole Foods-acquisition world.

Nestlé USA invests in online meal delivery firm Freshly: 'Consumers are responding to a growing universe of direct-to-consumer options'

20-Jun-2017

By Elaine Watson

As big CPG firms continue to dip their toes in the burgeoning direct to consumer meal kit and meal delivery space, Nestlé USA has acquired a minority interest in Freshly, which supplies weekly shipments of fully prepared meals to consumers in 28 states.