Quick data points regarding online grocery sales, delivery, trends, and investments.

The pair of German discounters have until now shunned online grocery delivery to protect their margins and avoid the high cost of delivering fresh food, which is largely incompatible with their business models.

After pioneering grocery delivery in the Northeast only to see Instacart expand service rapidly to its rivals during the COVID-19 pandemic, Stop & Shop is now an Instacart option itself in Connecticut.

Food and grocery delivery company DoorDash has raised $400 million at a nearly $16 billion valuation. Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Management co-led the round, with T. Rowe Price and existing investors participating.

The grocer, which runs 2,252 stores under banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons and Shaw’s, estimates that its stock will begin trading in the range of $18 to $20 per share, suggesting that the company could raise between $1.2 billion and $1.3 billion when it goes public.

Kroger’s digital sales grew 92% during Q1 as many safety-conscious shoppers opted to get their groceries delivered to their homes and cars. Kroger added delivery and store pickup slots and waived the $5 fee for its pickup service in order to drive shopper engagement.

Deliveroo has brought a new grocer on board that lets customer order essential household items with delivery in as little as 30 minutes - and it's not restricted to London for a change. In fact, it's up north with delivery throughout Lancashire and Greater Manchester.

The announcement comes as the supermarket processed more than 150,000 online orders in a week for the first time. The company says the figure is more than double the amount of weekly orders at the start of this year and represents a significant milestone in its online expansion plans.

British retail group Tesco has agreed to sell its business in Poland to Denmark’s retail group Salling Group A/S for £181m. The deal includes 301 stores together with two distribution centers and head office.

Dumpling, an online platform that allows people to start their own grocery shopping and delivery business, announced today that it has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding.

Hispanic supermarket chain Northgate González Market announced its partnership with Instacart to offer online grocery delivery service from 36 of its supermarkets in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego counties.

The shipment started at Dean and Peeler Premium Beef in South Texas and shipped via UPS to an event held at The Richter Tavern in Boerne, Texas.

CVS announced it partnered with DoorDash for same-day delivery of groceries, food, and non-prescription items. There will be over 3,000 products that will be available for purchase through the DoorDash mobile app and website.

Beginning in early May, guests near any of the nationwide Smoothie King locations can order all 83 purpose blends through the DoorDash app or website for delivery or pick up.

Creates one of the World's Largest Networks of Smart Kitchens with US footprint in Austin, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco.

The fund invests in German food-dominated retail parks and food retail warehouses and its portfolio includes properties in 67 locations which generate €41m in annual rents.

Delivering groceries is Uber Technologies Inc’s next frontier – at least in Latin America.

Ride-hailing platform Didi Chuxing is piloting a new grocery e-commerce project in Chengdu as it looks to diversify its revenue streams.

Many supermarkets remain skeptical of the now-popular service that boosts sales but hurts margins; ‘It’s a two-edged sword’

The next era of home deliveries will prioritize efficiency and profitability, which are already separating the winners from losers.

Is pushing delivery the right answer for your restaurant? Well, it depends. To succeed as a take-out business, you need to already have the following in place (or quickly get it).

What we can say with certainty in June of 2020 is that the brands you operate and market have major decisions to make about serving customers in both the best and worst of times. This is crucial work, and the only thing more important in local commerce right now is the significant power brands are suddenly wielding to set standards for how delivery and delivery persons will work. Recognize that power.

The industry is benefiting from increase in off-premise sales, which primarily includes delivery, takeout, drive-thru, catering, meal kits, and off-site options such as kiosks and food trucks, owing to the coronavirus pandemic.

Bars are already preparing for a flurry of cool creativity after the Iowa Legislature passed a bill which allows them to continue selling drinks for off-premise consumption.

Available at nearly 1,400 Big Lots stores in 47 states, the new partnership brings affordable groceries, as well as everyday essentials, and even home decor, straight to customers’ doors.

Kroger is the largest supermarket chain in the U.S., but it’s lagged behind competitors like Walmart, Amazon and Target with e-commerce. The grocer has tried to accelerate its efforts by partnering with British robotics company Ocado to build a network of fulfillment centers.

Take a look at the deployment, business processes, automation, and autonomous vehicle developments happening now for Walmart’s Online Grocery and Pickup businesses.

The Brick Meets Click/Mercatus Grocery Shopping Survey conducted at the end of May 2020, in combination with other research from Brick Meets Click, documents how COVID-19 is impacting online grocery shopping in the US. Learn what these insights mean along with guidance and perspective from Brick Meets Click and Mercatus.

As Covid-19 continues to ravage on, retailers worldwide are undergoing massive grocery changes. As a result, customers expect your shop to deliver more than ever. So, do you have the tech in place that can streamline some of those new online delivery updates? Are you ready to shape your business to meet the new reality?

Amid the uncertainty of what college will look like this fall, one thing is for sure — it won’t be the typical experience for students.

Meal kit and grocery delivery firms have seen sales surge in recent months as the amount of money spent on home-delivered food more than doubled in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Spending on meal kits and grocery boxes sent to people’s doors soared by 114% in April after people were told to stay indoors, according to new figures from Cardlytics.

Adobe Analytics via (Digital Commerce 360) reports BOPIS orders increased a whopping 208% in April over the same period in 2019, based on online sales data from trillions of anonymous visits to retail sites and tens of millions of product SKUs from 80 of the top 100 retailers in the Digital Commerce 360 Top 1000. The stats are based on 18 product categories including apparel, electronics, home, grocery, appliance, personal care, office supplies, and more.

Our ultimate goal is simple: We want to make dumpling the trusted partner that helps anyone launch, run, and grow their own service-based business. And we want to help those business owners build financial stability and wealth for the long term.

Founded by a former intelligence specialist for the U.S. Navy, Revolution Agriculture will soon launch a direct-to-consumer grocery delivery business in Tacoma, Wash., that sells produce grown in backyards and on other surplus land in the community. The company plans to partner with grocery delivery services including Instacart and Postmates to distribute its produce to customers.

New Detroit-based online grocery delivery service, Michigan Fields, aims to bring state grown and sourced products to customers’ doorsteps.

Julia Niiro’s MilkRun pays small producers to deliver their own goods locally.

America's newest billionaire is Apoorva Mehta, the 33-year-old founder of grocery delivery app Instacart.

Over the last four years, he has grown the company to more than 300 full-time employees and tens of thousands of part-time grocery shoppers. The start-up offers on-demand and same-day grocery delivery in hundreds of cities in 20 states.

Kroger will be banking on improved e-commerce logistics that pushed digital sales to 22% by the start of the year ahead of Q1 2020 earnings date in June 18, 2020.

A surge in cold storage demand is expected to last. But exactly how it will play out is still an open question.

A sharp drop that began with coronavirus-triggered lockdowns in March has turned around amid a consumer rush toward e-commerce

The pandemic has placed a lot of pressure on bricks-and-mortar retail, not least by re-emphasizing quite how convenient and comprehensive e-commerce solutions are by comparison. But as store operators rushed to find new forms of revenue whilst premises remained closed – often by home-brewing their own delivery services – what many have realized is that the future of e-commerce is less about the global supply chain and more about the local one. And that’s a future in which stores could play a key role.

As the pandemic shakes up the supermarket landscape, Quebec-based steel fabricator, Canam Group, is helping the grocery chains maintain progress on their new distribution centres and in some cases, accelerate project timelines in response to growing online orders.

As Instacart is reaching new heights during this pandemic, many entrepreneurs take inspiration and want to launch a business or delivery app like Instacart. To draw a better understanding, let’s take a deeper look at Instacart’s customer retention strategies by dissecting its business model and revenue model.

Jupiter is a grocery delivery and meal planning startup that’s approaching the market with an eye toward convenience and automation.

Scores of the region’s corner shops are queuing up to take on the likes of Tesco thanks to an innovative startup that’s providing a “once in a lifetime chance to level the playing field”.

“It’s a big mind shift from having gigs doled out to you to being a business owner,” says Shapiro. “You’re doing your own marketing and promotions and setting your own prices. The coaches help take [personal shoppers] to the next level.”

Shift to cooking could be a short order, but grocery delivery likely to thrive

Carrefour Group, one of the world’s biggest supermarket chains, and Google are launching a voice-activated grocery shopping service in France.

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