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Retailers

Why H-E-B Wins With Online Grocery Shoppers

An easy-to-use app, convenient delivery options and successful substitutions helped propel the San Antonio-based grocer to the top of dunnhumby's first-ever eCommerce Retailer Preference Index.

Walmart

Walmart Canada Makes Two Executive Moves

"This announcement speaks to our bench strength of talent," Walmart Canada CEO Horacio Barbeito says in naming a new chief people officer and two new additions to the retailer's leadership team.

Walmart

Walmart Adding AR to the In-Store Experience—Including for Grocery

New tech will let shoppers scan store shelves to more easily find what they're looking for.

Walmart

Walmart Expands a Pregnancy Support Benefit

The retailer is extending its doula-service coverage, introduced last year in Georgia, to employees on a Walmart medical plan in three additional states.

Walmart

Walmart Takes Majority Stake in Symbotic

The retailer last month expanded its partnership with warehouse automation specialist Symbotic, which will see its tech implemented in all 42 of Walmart's regional distribution centers.

Kroger

Kroger Adds Hundreds of EV Charging Stations (You Just Have to Find Them)

The Cincinnati-based grocer said it has collaborated with five EV specialists, including EVgo, Tesla and Volta, to install more than 350 vehicle chargers in 10 states, with more to come.

Retailers

Grocery Shoppers Ask, 'Where Are the Deals?'

A good sale is hard to find: As they seek to cope with inflation, consumers say fewer of the items they want are on sale and coupons are harder to come by, new surveys find.

Retailers

Have the Wheels Come Off Ultrafast Grocery Delivery?

Jokr is the latest "instant delivery" player to shut down U.S. operations as consumers and investors get skittish about spending.

Walmart

Walmart, Sam's Club Raise Wages for Pharmacy Techs

Walmart Inc. also is instituting a progressive wage model that will boost techs' pay up to $4 more per hour over four years.

Inflation

3 in 10 Say They Struggle to Afford Needed Groceries, IRI Finds

Seventy-seven percent of consumers said they changed their grocery choices or buying behaviors in May in response to inflation, up 6 percentage points from April.

Technology

Instacart Express Rebrands as Instacart+, Rolls Out New Benefits

Members will continue to get free delivery on orders of $35 or more; households now will be able to build online carts and place combined orders through one Instacart+ account.

Retailers

SpartanNash Buys Three-Store Michigan Grocery Chain

Shop-N-Save Food Centers was a longtime SpartanNash distribution customer; SNS stores have been rebranded as Family Fare locations.

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