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Instacart-Walmart Delivery Pact Heats Up Online Grocery Wars

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11), reported by CNBC , that retail behemoth Walmart has struck a partnership with Instacart to offer same-day deliver across a few, select markets in the United States, focused on four initial pilots in Oklahoma and California. Amazon, for its part, said online grocery sales tripled in its latest quarter. News came Tuesday (Aug.

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Retail Rents Falling From Manhattan To Los Angeles

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retail rents falling in many locales by percentages even greater than those seen in or after the 2007-08 Great Recession. These decreases are historic,” the Real Estate Board of New York wrote in a new report showing that average Manhattan retail asking rents fell in all of the island’s 17 retail corridors during autumn.

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Virtual Reality Gains Traction In Retail

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Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports. and Europe by 2022. Amazon VR Push.

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ALDI Expands Online Grocery Delivery To All US Stores

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ALDI has announced that it is expanding its online grocery delivery service to all of its stores in the United States. According to Chain Store Age , the German supermarket company will use its partnership with Instacart to roll out the service to 75 major markets, including San Diego, New York City, Miami, Raleigh and Minneapolis.

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Albertsons’ Online Sales Surge 276 Pct As Pandemic Reshapes Shopping

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Digital commerce has skyrocketed at Albertsons , as the supermarket giant posted a triple-digit increase in online sales for its most recent quarter amid soaring demand for grocery delivery and curbside pickup. The increase in online sales also helped offset declines from the closure of some stores and a drop in fuel sales. “We

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Amazon Takes Territory In US And Beyond

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Township leaders are ecstatic, yet some fear the company could kill more jobs than it creates because of its threat to the retail sector. The distribution centers are supposed to reduce delivery time on packages, which undercuts one of the last remaining advantages of brick-and-mortar retail: instant gratification.

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Petco’s $864 Million IPO Beats Forecasts 

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The San Diego-based pet care chain is pricing its 48 million shares of Class A common stock at $18 each, beating forecasts. They bought the company from TPG and Leonard Green, who took the then-public pet retailer private 15 years ago. . 14), Bloomberg reported. . Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Barclays are the underwriters.