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Jon Springer

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Jon Springer is executive editor of Winsight Grocery Business with responsibility for leading its digital news team. Jon has more than 20 years of experience covering consumer business and retail in New York, including more than 14 years at the Retail/Financial desk at Supermarket News. His previous experience includes covering consumer markets for KPMG’s Insiders; the U.S. beverage industry for Beverage Spectrum; and he was a Senior Editor covering commercial real estate and retail for the International Council of Shopping Centers. Jon began his career as a sports reporter and features editor for the Cecil Whig, a daily newspaper in Elkton, Md. Jon is also the author of two books on baseball. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English-Journalism from the University of Delaware. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his family.

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Industry Partners

Shoppers Click-and-Pick to Record Grocery Tally

Pickup becomes a “dominant” modality as ship-to-home slips and sales reach $9.3 billion in March, Brick Meets Click/Mercatus survey indicates.

Technology

Getting to Know You: Personalization Comes of Age

The blessing of new customers and digital growth has lit the fuse for personalization—a powerful and profitable path to differentiation.

Retailers

Kroger CEO Lauds 'Monumental Day' as Ocado Facilities Zip to Life

Officials in a press event said the long-awaited opening of robotic fulfillment centers will usher in a new era of quality and reliability in grocery e-commerce—and deliver the retailer to new places, too.

Technology

Cleveron Unveils Remote Delivery Vehicle

Now testing in Estonia, the 701 is an adaptable electric delivery vehicle piloted by an off-site operator.

Retailers

Grocery Pricing Eroding as Dining Out Increases

The rate of grocery inflation slowed again in March, and is more pronounced in some locales where restaurant dining restrictions have eased.

Industry Partners

The Calculus of the Batch

From the quick-twitch viewpoint of the contract-based delivery driver, not all gigs—nor retailers—are created equal.

Retailers

BJ's CEO Lee Delaney Passes Suddenly

Lee Delaney, who was instrumental in the wholesale club's new momentum, died of presumed natural causes April 8.

Technology

Computer Vision Firm Trax Collects $640M in New Funding

SoftBank leads investment in software that leverages computer vision data into solutions for CPGs, retailers and shoppers.

Stores

Inside Lidl's Queens Crowning

Eight months after closing Best Market, the hard discounter reopens to a dense and diverse crowd in Astoria, its first unit in Queens.

Wholesalers & Distributors

UNFI’s E-Commerce Marketplace Comes to Life

The wholesaler’s Community Marketplace gives customers a wider variety of specialty and local items and a new proving ground for emerging brands and categories.

Technology

SoftBank to Buy 40% Stake in AutoStore

The $2.8 billion investment, which comes as U.S. grocery retailers embrace microfulfillment centers, values the automated warehouse company at $7.7 billion.

Technology

Ahold Delhaize Appoints PepsiCo’s Rom Kosla as Retail Business Services CIO

Food retail veteran to lead continued IT evolution to support Ahold Delhaize USA omnichannel ambitions.

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