May 6, 2021 | GroceryGeniuses Blog

Shipt and Christina Milian work together to celebrate Mother’s Day with special promotions

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

Shipt, an American delivery firm, has teamed up with celebrity mom Christina Milian to offer new self-care promotions, groceries and home delivery to celebrate all the mothers on May 9. Shipt will offer a $50 membership discount on home delivery to mothers through Mother’s Day, May 9. To promote the partnership, Christina Milian has been sharing creative ideas to send gift packages delivered to mothers via Shipt.

Publix will now accept EBT online payment for its SNAP members chainwide

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

Publix, a supermarket chain, has partnered with Instacart to implement and accept Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT). Publix, Save Mart, FoodMaxx and various other grocers rolled out EBT payments for their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) members chainwide.

CVS Health ready to invest $100M in innovative startups for easy access to healthcare

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

CVS pharmacy and retailer is looking to invest $100M in tech startups in their infancy stage with a focus to make healthcare services easily accessible. The fund is aimed to bring healthcare closer to patient’s house and aligns with its technology-based innovative health strategy. CVS will offer investment and expertise to early-stage firms.

Rosie upgrades feature to make its app friendly for people with disabilities

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

Rosie, an E-commerce startup serving grocers and retailers, has lowered usability barriers to facilitate digital orders for people with disabilities. Rosie has highlighted its major features like a high-contrast option, screen reader technology, and the option to place orders with the use of the keyboard. It is the first e-commerce firm to meet level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Customers can remove GIFs and other moving images from the app.

Uber allows its passengers to pick up groceries during the ride

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

Uber, a ride-hailing firm, has launched Pick Up and Go feature in its app that lets passengers order and pick groceries while riding together. The ride-hailing app will also allow pre-order and place multiple orders if a restaurant or a grocer is closed. This feature will be operational in June this year and customers from selected parts of the U.S., U.K., Canada, Taiwan and Australia can avail this feature first.

YouFoodz offers online delivery of ready meals and grocery

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

YouFoodz, a grocer and a convenience meal firm, now offers groceries and ready meals online. The firm will offer online grocery, fruits and vegetable boxes, frozen meat and ready meals. The business, which is based out of Australia, markets itself as a premium yet affordable brand. YouFoodz’s Chief Executive wants to promote a healthy lifestyle and a balanced diet with its fresh produce. It also offers discounts on some bundle shopping.

Safeway and Target embed grocery discount offers in the Google Pay app

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

Google is aligning itself with grocers Safeway and Target to feature weekly grocery discounts on Google Pay mobile app. Shoppers will receive discount notifications and reminders on their phone when a shopper is close to any of the grocery shops. To avail these offers, customers will have to download the Google Pay app and turn location-based services on. To support this venture, Google is partnering with Instacart to provide relevant information to customers.

Flipkart expands grocery outlets to 50 Indian cities and implements bilingual voice search

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

As a response to the alarming spike in COVID-19 cases in India, Walmart-owned Flipkart is expanding its online grocery outlets by tapping 50 more cities including Kolkata, Pune, and Ahmedabad. It will open 70 new outlets in different locations. Flipkart also added a voice search feature to find products and place an online order. Customers can choose to use voice search in both English and Hindi languages.

Likor, a Belgian liquor business owned by Young Charly, goes online

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

Young Charly from Antwerp, Belgium is currently working on making its exquisite liquor webshop, Likor, one of the biggest online stores in Europe. Customers can order French wine and Spirits from the 3,000 wide range of fine liquor options available on their website. The website offers filters to make customer’s search less intricate. Likor will launch in Dutch and will further tap Wallonia, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland in future.

Lidl introduces two incredible innovations in its European stores

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

Lidl is in the news for all the good reasons with two innovations in Germany and Ireland. The grocery giant will offer free sanitary napkins and tampons to fight period poverty in Ireland. Through the Lidl app, customers can sign up and receive a monthly coupon for free sanitary products. In Germany, Lidl rolls out Lidl Pay to promote contactless transactions and avail grocery discounts. Poland and Spain already use Lidl Pay to make digital transactions for grocery items.

Edeka’s sales rose by 9.5% to £61 billion last year

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

Edeka, Germany’s biggest grocer, saw huge success during the pandemic as it recorded growth of almost 10%. The sales spike was driven by Edeka’s 3600 independent retailers. Edeka’s group sales rose by 9.5% to £61 Billion. The grocer’s discount subsidiary Netto witnessed sales go up by 7.9%. Independent retailer groups of Edeka saw collective revenue growth of 14.2%.

Petco hosts a pet fashion show through Facebook Live and tests video commerce

GroceryGeniuses May 6, 2021

Petco, a health and wellness firm for pets and pet owners, is the latest firm to test video commerce. The pet supplies retailer hosted a pet fashion show and dog adoption drive streamed as “Facebook Live: The Perfect Fit” via Facebook shops. The Live fashion show featured private labels merchandise of Petco, Youly and Reddy. Influencer Arielle Vandenberg hosted the shoppable live stream.