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Tesco’s online grocery app and website have left many customers unable to complete orders or receive deliveries after experiencing technical issues for over a day.

Tesco faces angry online backlash after its app and website fail

February 26, 2020

Tesco’s online grocery app and website have left many customers unable to complete orders or receive deliveries after experiencing technical issues for over a day. Shoppers took to social media…

Amazon is planning to launch a new chain of grocery stores complete with high-tech automated “microfulfillment” centres to streamline online-order picking.

Amazon’s new grocery stores to feature hidden robotic “microfulfillment” areas for online orders

February 24, 2020

Ben Stevens

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Delivery / Supply Chain, Ecommerce, News

Amazon, Automated, grocery, microfulfillment, Robots

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Amazon is planning to launch a new chain of grocery stores complete with high-tech automated “microfulfillment” centres to streamline online-order picking. Online orders will be fulfilled by robots in a…

Samsung’s Whisk launches new app to simplify grocery shopping

December 18, 2019

Ava Szajna-Hopgood

Apps / Mobile, News

App, grocery, Nick Holzherr, platform, Shopping, Whisk

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UK-based food shopping app Whisk has launched the first multi-platform app of its kind to simplify grocery shopping. Whisk was originally rejected at pitch level by Lord Alan Sugar after…

Amazon is set to begin offering its customers small business loans as it closes in on a deal with banking giant Goldman Sachs.

Amazon selling hundreds of grocery items as much as 6 months past their sell-by-date

October 21, 2019

Ben Stevens

Ecommerce, News

Amazon, CNBC, Delivery, grocery, sell-by-date

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Amazon is selling hundreds of grocery items which are long past their sell-by-date as fears emerge that its push into the grocery delivery market could exacerbate the issue. At least…

Amazon Fresh launches on-demand delivery for non-subscribers

September 11, 2019

Ben Stevens

Delivery / Supply Chain

Amazon, Delivery, Fresh, grocery, online, Prime, Russell Jones

Amazon Fresh is now available on demand in the UK allowing Prime customers which are not signed up to the monthly delivery service to order groceries online anytime. Prime customers…

Uber technologies chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi this week suggested Uber may be working to offer courier services for other retail businesses, according to a report by Reuters.

Uber to deliver groceries and convenience store items “soon”

August 9, 2019

Ben Stevens

Apps / Mobile, Delivery / Supply Chain, News

Delivery, grocery, Sainsbury's, Uber Eats

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Uber is set to begin delivering groceries and convenience store items locally as it ramps up investment into an “ecommerce moment”. It aims to expand its Uber Eats restaurant delivery…

Amazon exploring new hybrid “mixed format” grocery stores

July 30, 2019

Ben Stevens

Companies, News

Amazon, Amazon Go, grocery, Whole Foods

Amazon is exploring an entirely new hybrid grocery store design, which will look to offer a “mixed format shopping” experience separate from Whole Foods and Amazon Go. According to a…

20% of worlds largest grocers to adopt blockchain by 2025

May 2, 2019

Ben Stevens

Blockchain

Blockchain, Gartner, grocery

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The grocery retail sector is set to lead the way in the adoption of blockchain technology, using it to revolutionise food safety and traceability. According to new data from research…

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Tesco faces angry online backlash after its app and website fail

Amazon’s new grocery stores to feature hidden robotic “microfulfillment” areas for online orders

Samsung’s Whisk launches new app to simplify grocery shopping

Amazon selling hundreds of grocery items as much as 6 months past their sell-by-date

Amazon Fresh launches on-demand delivery for non-subscribers

Uber to deliver groceries and convenience store items “soon”

Amazon exploring new hybrid “mixed format” grocery stores

20% of worlds largest grocers to adopt blockchain by 2025

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