By Nathaniel Meyersohn Source: CNN The backlash against self-checkout is growing, and stores are starting to dial back on the technology after it exploded over the past few years. Booths, a British supermarket chain, said it’s removing self-checkout stations in all but two of its 28 stores. In the United [...]
Source: PYMNTS.com Walmart, best known for offering products at wallet-friendly prices through its extensive network of physical stores, is setting records this month, driven by the success of its grocery offerings that continue to attract shoppers. Meanwhile, Amazon isn’t satisfied with its penetration of the grocery sector and is extending [...]
By Dominick Reuter Source: Insider Walmart is pulling self-checkout lanes from at least three stores, requiring shoppers to have an employee ring up their orders. Two stores in Albuquerque, New Mexico, were recently renovated to replace the checkout lanes, and changes to a third area store areslated to be finished [...]
By Catherine Douglas Moran Source: Grocery Dive Walmart accounted for nearly 36% of all U.S. online grocery sales in the second quarter — achieving a new record high for the retailer that’s up 5 percentage points from its share a year prior, according to a new report produced by Brick [...]
By Daniel Kline Source: The Street Walmart has made its supermarket frozen food aisle a bit like the Las Vegas Strip. If a celebrity chef opens an eatery in a Caesars property, they almost never also have a restaurant in an MGM Resorts International hotel or a Wynn Resorts property. [...]
By Alana Semuels Source: Yahoo! Finance Every week, I go onto Walmart’s website and order a bunch of groceries to be delivered to my house and then feel a little bit guilty. Walmart is a multi-billion dollar corporation with headquarters more than 1,000 miles from my home; the money I [...]
Source: Zero Hedge Amazon is taking more strides in the world of grocery, launching the biggest overhaul of that part of its business since it bought Whole Foods. The details of its new overhaul, reported on by Bloomberg this week, include "revamping stores, testing new highly automated warehouses and, for [...]
By Bill Wilson Source: Supermarket News Walmart is rolling out a new ad strategy that leans into third party ads placed in the self-checkout aisle and TV aisles. The retailer will use screens in self-checkout areas and TV aisles, radio ads over its in-store audio network, and demo stations — [...]
By Sarah Nassauer and Dave Cole Source: The Wall Street Journal Inside a sprawling Walmart warehouse here, hundreds of jobs slinging boxes are changing into roles managing robotic arms, conveyor belts and screens. The central Florida warehouse, surrounded by cow pastures and housing developments, has been one of this county’s [...]
By Brett Ryder Source: The Economist When Amazon announced the $13.7bn acquisition of Whole Foods Market in 2017, it followed some oddball attempts to strengthen its grocery business, some conceived by Jeff Bezos himself. One was to develop an “ice-cream truck for adults”, driving into neighbourhoods with lights flashing and [...]