Austin, TX, and Seattle, WA--Whole Foods Market/Amazon is introducing Prime Now benefits to 75 locations, according to a press release. The 1-hr+ delivery service is now available in Asheville, Charlottesville, Columbia, Lexington, Little Rock, Manchester, Mobile, Naples and Savannah, and will continue to expand throughout the year. Grocery pickup services are expanding to Columbus, Ohio, the press release says.
More consumers are making short stops at Whole Foods Markets that have installed Amazon lockers and many of them are likely to be incremental customers. These short, or “micro” visits, which can be from three to five minutes long, are up by 11% since Amazon closed its purchase of Whole...
San Francisco, CA — Instacart, Inc. is buying Unata Inc., a coupon and voice-shopping startup based in Toronto, Canada. The deal gives Instacart — the grocery-delivery company that partners with local stores to offer same-day deliveries — new kinds of e-commerce tools. It will also help it to expand in Canada. Unata makes...
CHICAGO - German grocery chain Aldi Inc is the latest to pilot grocery delivery, announcing a partnership that will launch at the end of the month with Instacart in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Dallas. The partnership is a way to test online grocery demand, Aldi’s VP of corporate buying Scott...
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has selected seven retail firms to take part in a pilot program designed to enable Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to purchase their groceries online. The two-year pilot is slated to begin this summer and will include the following retailers...
