Home Chef, the Kroger-owned meal kit company and prepared foods brand, has promoted Chief Product Officer Erik Jensen to president, according to a news release.

Dozens of people, including descendants of the Wright brothers, watched a historic flight in the birthplace of aviation.

Rouses Markets is looking to drones to help solve the last-mile delivery challenges many grocers are facing as e-commerce orders increase. The Gulf Coast food retailer has partnered with Deuce Drone for a delivery pilot program this fall with an Aerial Drone Delivery Interface System (ADDIS) at the Rouses on Airport Boulevard in Mobile, Alabama.

It’s been a busy week for H-E-B. In addition to breaking ground on two massive stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the San Antonio-based grocer has announced a third new store slated to open in the area in spring 2023.

The results of DoorDash’s second annual midyear trend report, DoorDash Deep Dish, finds a number of food trends born of the pandemic may be here to stay, including demand for delivery.

Walmart's investments in omnichannel capabilities and alternative revenue streams give the company strong positioning in an evolving retail environment where consumers demand ever-more flexibility in how they buy and access products and services, Walmart Chief Financial Officer Brett Biggs said at a Baird virtual conference June 9.

Online grocery delivery ordering has surged since the start of the pandemic, as a behavior that may have initially started as a safety measure has since become a habit.

QuickCollect Solutions, powered by Bell and Howell, the leading provider of grocery pickup solutions, announced today a partnership with Lowes Foods, a major supermarket chain headquartered in the Carolinas, to provide more grocery options to consumers returning to the workplace.

Amazon and U.S. delivery company Gopuff, which is backed by SoftBank, are both looking at buying up Germany-based Flink, sources told Bloomberg. Flink has already spurned a bid from Gopuff.

DoorDash announced its official launch in Japan on Wednesday, marking the U.S. food-delivery company’s first market expansion in Asia and its third outside its home country, after Australia and Canada.

Pakistan’s online grocery delivery platform, GrocerApp, has successfully raised $5.2 million in a Series-A round from local and global institutional and angel investors.

AirAsia announced today that it is entering the competitive grocery-delivery market in Singapore. The AirAsia app called for interested fresh produce and grocery merchants throughout the city-state to join its ecommerce delivery platform.

As far as grocery delivery goes, there’s also a long experience curve whereby VCs can feel they’re on firmer footing while deploying those billions of euros.

What the stats don’t reveal, says Stor.ai, is the number of grocers hemorrhaging customer loyalty from their banners to the Instacart brand.

Companies are springing up all over the UK promising to deliver whatever you want in as little as 10 minutes. But what could we lose by never popping out for milk again?

Billions of dollars are flowing to support companies you may never have heard of—startups with memorable names like Zapp, Deliveroo, Getir and Gorillas.