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COVID-19 boosts customer appetite for online grocery shopping in APAC countries, says GlobalData
The need to maintain social distance and stay at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly forcing consumers across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region to shift their shopping habits online. Therefore, contactless deliveries are ideal during lockdown measures, forcing...
Food
Buying Grocery Online: Reviewing the Shifting Landscape
Consumer participation in online grocery shopping is increasing, and around 30 per cent of US shoppers are now purchasing some groceries online, up from 25 per cent one year earlier, according to a Prosper Insights & Analytics survey conducted in August...
Food
Shaping the future of online grocery: CCRRC Study
Online grocery has been slow to take off in most of Europe. Even in the two most advanced markets—the United Kingdom and France—it accounts for only around 5 per cent and 4 per cent of sales respectively. This slow...
Food
In 3 years Bigbasket will be among the top 3 players in F&G: CEO
Co-Founder and CEO of Bigbasket.com, Hari Menon, talks to Progressive Grocer about his company’s strategy to multiply its sales four-fold over the next year, plans to expand its footprint across the country with profitable growth and differentiated products, and...
Food & Grocery
Mandi-Direct Grocery: Is the third alternative more viable?
At a time when online grocery retail start-ups -- especially hyperlocal models -- are going through a rough patch, in comes a new format that hints at the possibilities of a third path, away from both inventory-led and marketplace structures.
Calling...
Food
Online grocery: Convenience trumps price
From pure-play and omni-channel to hybrids, the grocery e-tailing roll call in India is well and truly on.
Grocery – given the perishable nature of some products and logistics bottlenecks – is not an "in favour category" with Indian e-tailers...
Retail
Morrisons acquires stake in FreshDirect
Leading US online grocer Morrisons has acquired around 10 per cent stake in FreshDirect, the leading profitable online grocer in the US, for £32 mn ($50 mn). FreshDirect will receive a minority economic interest in Morrisons' planned London online...
Progressive Grocer
Online Groceries Strike Back
Way back at the turn of the last century – 1999, to be exact – one of the hot topics in the U.S. supermarket industry was online grocery shopping. Peapod had recently expanded, Webvan had raised hundreds of millions...
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The Luxottica report card for 2022
A look at how the world’s largest eyewear company fared in terms of revenue growth in key regions across...
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