Robust grocery and digital sales helped propel BJ’s Wholesale Club to double-digit net and comparable-club sales growth for its 2020 fourth quarter and fiscal year.

Meal kit maker HelloFresh reported $705 million in Q4 sales in the U.S., a 99% increase over the year-ago period, according to the company’s earnings report. Full-year sales increased 102% to nearly $2.5 billion.

What’s behind the massive increase in the value investors are willing to ascribe to the business? Put simply, the pandemic.

The age-old debate takes on new significance in light of news that the company is exploring fulfillment operations.

What do these corporate changes say about the strategies of Uber Eats and of Instacart?

Walmart recently unveiled a new strategy to implement local fulfillment centers for handling e-commerce grocery orders within its physical stores. Steve Hornyak, Chief Operating Officer of Fabric, discusses how the new model will operate, and how it ties in with a wider trend of micro-fulfillment centers inside brick-and-mortar grocery stores.

Leading grocery chains get on board with automated micro-fulfillment centers to answer the demand of surging e-commerce.

The e-commerce giant added at least nine new warehouses in the city over the past year as 2.4 million packages a day strained the nation’s largest urban delivery system.

The growth of online food ordering is nothing short of staggering. In March 2020, consumers shifted the ways they shopped overnight – and there has been no looking back.

CP transactions provide many benefits to grocers as they prepare for the post-COVID world.

Despite the growing competition of similar services within the region, AirAsia intends to woo customers by promising a five per cent lower delivery charge in comparison to its competitors.

Grocery delivery via Flipkart is now available in over 50 cities across India, and the company plans to continue expanding the service to more than 70 cities over the next six months, according to a press release published on Tuesday (Mar. 2).

Crisp, an Amsterdam-based, online-only supermarket focused on fresh produce, has raised €30 million in a Series B financing led by leading Target Global and joined by Keen Venture Partners and the co-founders of Adyen and Takeaway.com.

Wincanton has started operations at a new Customer Fulfilment Centre (“CFC”, also known as a “dark store”) for Waitrose.com in Greenford, West London, making it the first supply chain partner to create a dark store for grocery home deliveries in the UK.

ClearGlass Analytics, a digital intermediary between asset managers and pension funds, has closed a £2.6 million funding.

In the latest outbreak of investor FOMO, Europe’s VCs are falling over each other to invest in this season’s startup craze: speedy grocery delivery startups.

The on-demand grocery delivery industry in Europe (and beyond) continues to heat up amidst the pandemic, including a plethora of startups taking a vertical approach by operating their own delivery only — or “dark” — stores.

Food delivery — whether it’s ready-made orders from restaurants, meal kits or groceries — has been one of the most-used services in this last year of living under the cloud of a global health pandemic, and today one of the companies with ambitions to build a pan-European empire in the third of these categories is announcing a major round of funding to help it get there.