Target’s Drive Up Is Red-Hot
Target’s curbside offering, called Drive Up, was already well-established by the time the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The Minneapolis-based retailer started testing the service in its hometown in late 2017, and it went nationwide in 2019.
ShopRite Goes Contactless With Pickup Pods
ShopRite, part of the Keasbey, N.J.-based Wakefern Food Corp., recently became the first grocer on the East Coast to unveil the new QuickCollect Go Pod, where shoppers can pick up their online ShopRite grocery orders from a temperature-controlled outdoor pickup pod featuring robotic automation for a fast, contactless self-service pickup experience.