Online sales are forecast to grow at 43.8% to 16.7 billion pounds in the next five years. On Thursday, researcher IGD forecast, Britain’s food and grocery industry, driven by the online and discounter channels, is set to grow by 12.5% to $272.8 billion (217.7 billion pounds) by 2024. Online will be the fastest growing channel…
Wal-Mart is in the process of fixing the issues due to which it had to cut its ties with the logistics firm. In a significant development that marks a setback against Wal-Mart’s efforts to fight Amazon.com in the groceries segment, logistics firm Deliv and Walmart Inc have discontinued their same-day grocery delivery partnership. In 2018,…
The warehouse, first of many, will house a hive a robots that can pull together a 50-item grocery order in as little as 5 minutes, thus saving labor time. In a strategic development, Kroger Co has selected Cincinnati for the first of its twenty high-tech warehouses it plans on building with its UK-based Ocado Group…
Deliveries by self-driving cars from the Fry’s store will cost $5.95 with no minimum order and will be available at addresses within the store’s zip code of 85257. On Thursday, U.S. supermarket operator Kroger Co stated it will begin testing driverless grocery deliveries from today and to do so it has partnered with tech firm…
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