Today in food commerce, SpartanNash, a grocer and food distributor with ties to Amazon, buys up a regional northwestern Michigan grocery chain, while Wonder, a food delivery startup from Jet’s Marc Lore, announces a $350 million Series B funding round. Plus, Anjali Naik, chief operating...
Grand Rapids, Michigan-based SpartanNash, a publicly traded food distributor and retailer with ties to Amazon, is growing its retail footprint by buying up existing grocery brands. On Tuesday (June 14), the company announced that it has acquired northwestern Michigan grocery chain Shop-N-Save Food Centers, which...
Around the world, top restaurant aggregators are competing to be consumers’ go-to not only for cooked meals but also for groceries. DoorDash, for its part, announced Tuesday (May 10) that it is partnering with food distributor, wholesaler and retailer SpartanNash to add over 100 of...
While grocery stores around the world are rapidly getting a digital upgrade alongside the industry’s omnichannel shift, innovation looks very different in the back office. Payments are becoming digitized more slowly, and automated solutions for labor-intensive processes are just beginning to emerge, enabling businesses across...
April 29, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has made consumers hungry. Literally. According to data from digital bank Current on how those who have received their federal stimulus funds have spent them, about 45 percent of the funds have been spent, and food was the preferred spending category. Sixteen percent bought food directly from restaurants and takeout locations, while another 9 […]
