Sam's Club Rolls Out Curbside Pickup Across the US
Sam’s Club is deploying curbside pickup service to all of its 597 locations in the United States, the Walmart-owned membership warehouse chain announced in a press release. The company expects the roll-out to be complete by the end of June.
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Bloomin’ Returns Dine-In to About Three-Quarters of U.S. Company Units
Bloomin’ Brands Inc., parent to the Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s Italian Kitchen and other brands, has reopened dine-in capacity at about three-quarters of its U.S. restaurants and expects to have some indoor seating at “substantially all” of its domestic dining rooms by the end of June, the company said Thursday.
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Instacart Surges Past Walmart in Online Grocery Market
According to a new report in The Information based on purchasing data gathered by Second Measure, Instacart’s explosive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic has not just been remarkable in isolation—but in relationship to its competitors, including Walmart, Shipt, Amazon, FreshDirect, and PeaPod.
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COVID-19 Consumer Habits: A Look at Shifting Retail Trends
Blue Yonder recently conducted two 1,000-person U.S. consumer surveys — one over March 18-19, 2020, and one over April 17-18, 2020 — to identify changes in consumer sentiment month-over-month. Unsurprisingly, as the crisis raged on, so did consumers’ shopping habit shifts.
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Old-Fashioned Milk Delivery Making a Comeback
The once-familiar tinkle of glass bottles at dawn is missing, as are the distinctive trucks and the crisp white uniforms of their drivers, but in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, home milk-delivery is experiencing a renaissance in the Philadelphia area.
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