J.Crew Pulls The Plug On Mercantile; Plus Instacart's Grocery Coalition; And Amazon’s Privacy Concern | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instacart Builds A Coalition To Compete In Grocery's Future | | The year 2018 has been a busy time for Instacart — the company raised nearly $1 billion, added to its partner count by 50 percent, dropped its prices and expanded into curbside pick-up. Grocery in the age of Amazon takes place in an entirely new ecosystem, according to Nilam Ganenthiran, Instacart’s chief business officer, and Instacart aims to utilize a coalition of retailers to remain competitive. | ` | |
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| | | | | TRENDING: Why Grocery Stores Want Autonomous Vehicle Delivery | | Offering convenience-expecting consumers smooth delivery services is expensive for merchants, particularly when it means paying drivers to work odd hours. The solution, says Udelv’s Director of Business Development Adriel Lubarsky, is using self-driving vehicles to cut costs and widen delivery windows, as well as boost sales and reach new customers. In the latest Intelligence of Things Tracker, Lubarsky explains designing secure package pickup and why supermarkets, especially, are eyeing autonomous deliveries. Read More... | |
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| | | | | New Black Friday Data: Shoppers Spent Big (Or Stayed Home) | | Not everyone broke down retailers’ virtual and physical doors to get shopping done on Black Friday. In fact, 39 percent of would-be buyers stayed home. Those who braved the frenzy got up early, according to a PYMNTS Black Friday survey. A thousand of those brave consumer souls tell us what they bought and why, giving clues for what to expect this holiday season. Read More... | |
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| | | | | | Keeping Current In An Always-Connected, On-Demand Ecosystem | | In the span of less than two decades, a connected and always-online environment has created not just one whole new world, but several. Working, playing, getting paid or paying have all reset and restructured during the digital migration. And with devices getting “smarter,” it seems that more reconstruction is on the agenda. Read More... | |
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