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Instacart partners with The Trade Desk to boost retail media for CPG brands

Instacart is piloting the new tech capability with Beam Suntory, a producer of alcoholic beverages, and GroupM, a media investment and advertising company.

Walmart

Walmart plots 5th high-tech fulfillment center in Stockton, California

The retail giant said the “next-generation” facility will rely on a mixture of skilled workers and machine learning to double the number of digital orders it can fulfill in a day.

Automated MFCs would be located in key metro markets where the Midwestern chain is seeing a surge in online grocery orders.

New service joins specialty grocer’s other on-demand partners Uber Eats and Instacart.

Grocery Tech Basket: The last-mile delivery service faces skepticism from Wall Street analysts, primarily due to its flattened customer base and the competition it faces in practically every part of its business.

Experts predict a big boost for e-commerce sales, particularly for Barbie-branded items.

Fresh Perspectives: Food shoppers’ high frequency offers the e-tail giant a huge opportunity to cross-sell more profitable products and keep consumers in its “ecosystem.”

A judge blocked efforts by DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub to stop the law, which amounts to a roughly 150% raise.

The nation’s largest grocery conference, Groceryshop 2023 drew more than 4,000 attendees, including over 1,700 retailers and brands across segments such as grocery, CPG, convenience, beauty and more. Here are scenes from the show, held Sept. 19-21 in Las Vegas.

Exec cites “bigger basket” from customers buying both in-store and online and explains how a greater e-commerce reach dovetails with brick-and-mortar expansion.

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