Meal kit supplier HelloFresh added more than 1 million active customers in the United States during the first quarter of 2021 compared with the final quarter of last year, the company announced on Tuesday.

The nearly 440,000-square-foot facility will become the company’s largest-ever shipping and fulfillment center, supporting rising demand for its meal kits and enabling HelloFresh to better serve new and existing West Coast customers.

John Simms, founder and CEO of HomeValet, talks about his company's pilot with Walmart and why he thinks delivery containers will one day be as common as a dishwasher or oven.

Grocers have embraced this change, boosting their online ordering capabilities. But one grocer in particular, Kroger, has made an even bigger move toward automation.

Consumers today either go to the store or order deliveries online. Now, a California startup with Baltimore expansion plans envisions another choice, on-demand mobile stores that consumers hail like Uber rides.

Jacksons and ExtraMile by Jacksons convenience stores will now offer same-day delivery via Instacart to customers across their network of more than 260 locations.

Waitrose will close the same day grocery delivery service it runs itself, and will instead concentrate on Deliveroo getting orders to customers quickly.

Food delivery app Zomato is in talks to invest around $100 million in e-grocer Grofers, two people in the know told ET, after discussions of a possible merger between the two fell through last year at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A recent poll by Survey Monkey found that 86% of adults in the U.S. want to buy groceries themselves at the store.