June 9, 2021 | GroceryGeniuses Blog

Giant Co. to roll out FlashFood app to curb retail food waste collectively

GroceryGeniuses June 9, 2021

Giant Co. has successfully piloted the app Flashfood and is ready for its roll out to 170 Martins and Giant stores initially. By using this app, shoppers can buy fresh produce, deli, bakery items and dairy products nearing the best-before date at a discounted price. Shoppers will have to install the app to browse the discounted items and make a purchase directly from the app to get same-day delivery of the grocery.

DoorDash has launched its operations in Japan, eyes expansion into the Asian market

GroceryGeniuses June 9, 2021

The US-based delivery firm DoorDash has launched its app in Japan as a first venture into the Asian market. DoorDash made this move to serve one of the restaurant-dense economies in the world. The delivery firm would start its operations by tapping Sendai, a city north of Japan’s capital, Tokyo. DoorDash is also preparing to enter the German market in the future as the latest FT report suggested.

Picnic, a delivery firm, is preparing for expansion into Belgian cities

GroceryGeniuses June 9, 2021

Picnic, an online supermarket and delivery firm from The Netherlands, is gearing up to expand in Belgian cities like Antwerp, Roosendaal, Bergen op Zoom, Steenbergen and Rucphen. About 90,000 households from these cities would be able to use Picnic’s service. Recent research shows it has already been ranked as the second most leading E-commerce business in Belgium, whereas Albert Heijn remains the market leader.

Colruyt and Albert Heijn ranked as the most inexpensive grocers in Belgium

GroceryGeniuses June 9, 2021

Colruyt, a Belgium-based supermarket owned by Colruyt Group, has been ranked as the most affordable grocer in Belgium. Albert Heijn has been ranked as the second most economical grocer after Colruyt. These two supermarkets are 10 percent cheaper than Carrefour, which is the third-most cheapest grocer. Many other grocers opted for price hike after the pandemic outbreak while these chains didn’t revise their prices. Carrefour’s muti-track price strategy is tailored to keep its image intact.

DoorDash to be ranked third-largest digital business after Amazon, Walmart by 2025

GroceryGeniuses June 9, 2021

DoorDash, a US-based food delivery firm, is hustling hard towards success. Analysts from Edge by Ascential’s market research wing forecasted it to be ranked as the third-largest e-commerce firm by 2025. Analysts based this forecast on DoorDash’s plan to add gross merchandise value (GMV) worth $48.57B in 2025. The on-demand grocery industry will grow almost 150% to add GMV sales worth $76.27 billion by 2025.