With rising food prices, shoppers are opting for lower-priced grocery chains over locally owned favorites. This, as the latest governmental data released last week showed that grocery prices in December were up 11.8% year over year, with some categories even higher. Prices for cereals and...
Today in restaurant and grocery tech news, insiders report that Instacart is gearing up to launch a 15-minute delivery service, while existing ultrafast grocery delivery service Jokr speaks with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster about the strategies driving its U.S. expansion. Plus, Shake Shack gets ready to...
Grocery stores may not look very different than they did two or three generations ago, but their role in consumers’ lives is changing dramatically. Where once the physical store encompassed the brand’s relationship with the consumer, it is now only one channel — part of...
As one of the world’s largest independent grocery store franchises with more than 6,000 stores located across the world, IGA has some unique insights into how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed things in the world of retail. And those insights could prove vital for the company’s future growth...
December 03, 2021
Grocery stores may not look very different than they did two or three generations ago, but their role in consumers’ lives is changing dramatically. Where once the physical store encompassed the brand’s relationship with the consumer, it is now only one channel — part of a whole that contains grocers’ direct web and mobile digital […]
May 26, 2020
For a consumer, the most important deciding factor in picking a place to eat pre-pandemic was pretty simple — which was offering them the best meal they were in the...
December 23, 2019
Something remarkable happened about halfway through the 2010s or at least something that ought to have been. Except as it turned out, due to the nature of what it was,...
December 16, 2019
Not all that many generations ago, grocery shopping was an all-day, logistics heavy affair that involved several visits to several specialty merchants all over town. Consumers who needed meat went...
