Consumers are grocery shopping online to beat the stress of heading into stores, but remain skeptical of apps and websites to purchase fresh foods, including meat, bakery items, and produce, Alexandra Trott, director of insights at 84.51˚, told FoodNavigator-USA....
Online digital shopping is an increasingly important aspect of shopper acquisition, as what happens digitally often influences brick-and-mortar shelves, a panel of e-commerce experts shared in a recent Circana webinar.
General Mills is raising its full year guidance partly on the belief that investments in new digital and technological capabilities, including connected commerce, strategic revenue management and supply chain digitization, will “unlock new growth and...
Online grocery sales growth is expected to moderate over the next five years following a pandemic-era surge, but online grocery sales are projected to pick up market share in overall grocery spending, according to the 2023 Brick Meets Click/Mercatus 5-Year...
Kroger’s big bet on digital, including personalized marketing and creating a “seamless” ecosystem that smoothly integrates digital and instore shopping along with fast home delivery or click and collect options, is paying off as the retailer saw identical,...
Year-over-year online grocery sales slipped slightly in August 2022 vs. August 2021, but research from Brick Meets Click/Mercatus shows a dramatic increase in online grocery shopping behavior over the past three years.
The “extreme obstacles” that food retailers have navigated the last few years will likely become “even more complex” in the coming year as unpredictable inflationary pressures, ongoing supply chain and labor challenges along with global unrest continue...
While the pandemic accelerated the adoption of food e-commerce, brick and mortar shopping will always have an edge over online grocery for most consumers, reports Dunnhumby.
Adoption of grocery e-commerce and delivery continues to increase even as the pandemic has lapped its two-year mark and foot traffic at grocery stores has picked back up, noted 1010 data which tracked the growth of Instacart over the past two years (2019-2021).
The total US online grocery market hit $8.7bn in sales in February 2022, an 8.5% jump from the same period last year as consumers pursued pickup/delivery (Instacart, Amazon Fresh, and the like) options in greater frequency over ship-to-home services (grocery...
Fresh Street is responding to the consumer shift towards e-commerce with the inauguration of Chicago’s first grocery built exclusively for click and collect shopping.
As Vejii prepares to go public on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE) in the coming weeks, co-founder and CEO Kory Zelickson shares how the company is leveraging its data and consumer insights to create the best plant-based shopping experience for...
While many retailers and CPG manufacturers are implementing price increases to their product assortments, online fresh food retailer FreshDirect said it will be rolling out price savings to consumers on a wide variety of its products.
Roughly a month after appointing former Facebook executive, Fidji Simo as CEO of the company, Instacart has hired another tech veteran to join its leadership team.
While many consumers have incorporated some form of e-commerce into their grocery shopping routines, an increasing number are indicating their preference for their pre-pandemic in-store shopping trips, according to survey results from The Feedback Group.
The trend of home cooking and kitchen creativity, which scores of households exhibited last year will stick around in 2021 solidifying the dining table as the centerpiece of family eating, says New York-based online grocery retailer FreshDirect which...
US grocery retailer Kroger and UK-based grocery e-commerce tech company Ocado will construct an additional automated Customer Fulfillment Center (CFC) in the South region, while also collaborating to roll out in-store fulfillment (ISF) capabilities across...
Ahold Delhaize – whose store brands in the US include Food Lion, Giant, Hannaford, and Stop & Shop – is accelerating its omnichannel business model with dozens of new stores and nearly 1,400 new Click & Collect locations planned for 2021, as well...
Consumers have grown accustomed to eating and cooking more meals at home due to the pandemic and will continue this behavior well into 2021, said Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen during the company's Q2 2020 earnings call.
Driven by shifting shopper attitudes toward COVID-19, overall grocery delivery and pickup sales for August were down to $5.7bn from June’s peak of $7.2bn. However, some key performance indicators including average order value and intent to make a repeat...
While online grocery usership dipped very slightly in July 2020 compared with April 2020, consumer usage still remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, according to new data from New York City-based tech firm Chicory.
The ongoing growth of online grocery delivery and pickup services in June illustrates how the contact-less shopping method is becoming more integral for a broader consumer base, as both order frequency and household penetration continue to increase, reports...
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic not only significantly accelerated the already steady consumer adoption of online shopping from grocery stores, it also drove business away from retailers to direct-to-consumer providers and online specialty product aggregators...
The mode of grocery shopping has evolved over the last few months with e-commerce experiencing a noticeable spike, but according to consumer insights and data company DISQO, in-store shopping is still the predominant and preferred way for consumers to...
Nearly a quarter (24%) of consumers have taken their grocery shopping online in the months of March and April 2020 compared to 6% in 2019 highlighting the need for retailers to provide a seamless shopper experience between in-store, pickup, and delivery...
The number of US households who reported shopping online for groceries rose dramatically in March when the pandemic hit, and stayed consistently high for the month of April, reveals new data from Brick Meets Click.
As wait times for delivery windows from traditional grocery retail ecommerce sites stretch further into the future, Americans increasingly are buying products directly from manufacturers’ websites during the coronavirus pandemic, creating an opportunity...
Consumers are getting back to basics with their online grocery shopping as they use their extended periods of time at home to learn basic cooking skills and recipes such as how to bake a potato, make homemade bread, and how to cook rice, according to...
A new study, analyzing National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data, found that infant grain consumption was generally associated with higher nutrient intakes across a broader set of food categories.
After evaluating the ecommerce marketing strategies of six national retailers, the Center for Science in the Public Interest is urging federal regulators to control more tightly the types of products retailers can promote on their websites to better promote...
Wanting to fix the “broken in-store and online grocery experience,” food subscription service Hungryroot is rebranding, expanding its product selection, and enhancing consumer engagement to offer a more personalized, streamlined shopping experience.
Given that only 2% of food and beverage sales currently are generated online and that shipping perishable, fragile and heavy CPGs can take a substantial bite out of already tight margins, it may be tempting to skip ecommerce.
Consumers are set to spend more than ever on Prime Day this year (July 15th and 16th) across every product category including grocery, according to e-commerce performance analytics platform Profitero.
Retailers investment in home delivery, click-and-collect and other rapid fulfillment of online orders is paying off as global e-commerce sales of food is set to nearly triple through 2023 to reach $321 billion, according to a new report from Packaged...
A look back at Amazon's grocery sales in 2018 shows that the online retailer experienced soaring growth in certain sub categories such as beverages and snacks, but has struggled to gain consumer buy in the categories of fresh food and perishables....
Mercato, an online ordering and delivery platform for small retailers, has brought on 11 more specialty purveyors to its network ranging from poultry and butcher shops to Russian and French bakeries.
When Amazon first acquired Whole Foods Market it sent a tremor of fear throughout the industry that brick and mortar soon would be dead, and triggered a flurry of investment in online shopping technology – but a year and a half and millions of dollars...
A report by market research firm Packaged Facts revealed that online groceries more than tripled between 2013 and 2018, though it still accounted for only 2% of total grocery spending.
Instacart has raised $600m in a financing round led by D1 Capital Partners, bringing its total funding raised – in Iess than one year – to $1.6bn, raising the e-commerce company’s valuation to $7.6bn.
