Good Eggs, which recently raised $100 million in funding, may be named with a pun, but it takes that name seriously. The company touts its “absurdly fresh” ingredients, its sustainable sourcing, and its treatment of employees.

E-grocer Imperfect Foods announced Monday it plans to become a net-zero carbon company by 2030.

Residents at Homebase-enabled apartment communities in the Kansas City area can sign up opt in for Walmart InHome; a unique service that offers unlimited free delivery of groceries directly to residents’ refrigerators whether they are home or away.

The Alabama grocer has teamed up with Auburn University to help food-insecure seniors and families with young children place online orders.

Flytrex, which is conducting a drone delivery pilot in North Carolina with Walmart, has secured $9.3 million in additional funding to expand its operations and finalize Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification for drone deliveries.

After reportedly being prepped for an initial public offering (IPO) early in 2021, Instacart may be rethinking that plan.

"Instacart does not give us insight into whom our low ratings come from, only a dose of paranoia and anxiety to figure it out and save our income."

Sobeys’ parent Empire Co. announced Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to buy 51 per cent of independent grocery chain Longo’s and its online service Grocery Gateway in a deal worth $357 million.

GreenBank Capital Inc. is absolutely delighted to announce that it has reached commercial agreement to acquire a significant shareholding in, and provide merchant banking services to, Beelivery the UK-based, fast-growing and profitable online grocery delivery platform.

For the quarter ending Feb. 28, sales for Ocado Retail, a retailer created by Ocado Group and by U.K.-based department store Marks & Spencer, totaled 599 million pounds ($829 million), and the average cost of an order, the Guardian reports, was up to 147 pounds from 110 pounds, a 34 percent increase.

Another online grocery delivery and “dark store” operator breaks cover today: London-based Jiffy, which aims to deliver fresh groceries and household essentials in around 15 minutes, has raised £2.6 million in seed funding as it readies for launch.

Following a successful pilot and a progressive roll-out which began in early December 2020, an additional seven East of England Co-Op shops have now been added to the Snappy Shopper home delivery app.

The grocery delivery program was launched by two Bay Area natives to help farmers during the coronavirus pandemic and features local items.

Dija, the London-based grocery delivery startup backed by Blossom Capital, Creandum and Index Ventures, has acquired Cambridge, U.K.-based Genie, in what looks in part like an acqui-hire.

Not only did grocery delivery companies have to scale up their physical infrastructure to meet new demand, as well as health and hygiene standards, their technology stack also had to be flexible to scale-up seamlessly. MatHem.se is Sweden’s leading independent pure-play online grocery retailer.

Food-delivery apps are racing to deliver groceries, a notoriously low-margin and competitive business.

Amid the razor-thin margins of grocery delivery, the largest companies tend to be at a huge advantage, able to leverage their nationwide (or even international) infrastructure to gain market share, while smaller players must specialize to distinguish themselves.

With accelerated take up across demographics and geographies, online groceries have after a decade of sluggish take up reached an inflection point.