Grocery Stores’ Pandemic Boom is Over

Kroger (KR), the largest supermarket chain in this country, said Thursday that it expects comparable sales, or sales at stores open for at least one year, to decline by 3% to 5% this year. Sales increased 14.1% in 2020.

The Future of Fresh Food E-Commerce: Implications for Food Suppliers

February 4, 2021 Rabobank

The increasing number of digital consumers, the shift from wet markets to online business models, and ongoing investment in storage and logistics are creating a paradigm shift in online fresh food sales.

Online Grocer Farmstead Expands to Southern U.S. with Delivery Service Starting in Nashville, TN

December 28, 2020 Farmstead

Farmstead, the first online grocer to offer fresh, high-quality groceries, delivered for free, at better prices than local supermarkets, announced today its fourth major city: Nashville, TN. Farmstead will bring its online grocery service to the area in late Q1 2021.

Walmart Turns Four Stores Into E-Commerce Laboratories as Online Sales Surge

November 2, 2020 Melissa Repko, CNBC

Walmart is turning four of its stores into laboratories that test ways to turn the retailer’s huge physical footprint into a more powerful edge for e-commerce.

Online Grocer Farmstead Launches “Grocery OS” To Help Traditional Grocers Take Delivery In-House, Go Head-to-Head Against Amazon’s National Expansion

September 17, 2020 Farmstead

Hot on the heels of Amazon’s “delivery-only” store launch in Brooklyn, online grocer Farmstead announced today that in addition to expanding its own “Farmstead” brand nationally, it’s now making its in-house grocery delivery software Grocery OS available to other national and regional grocers, to help those grocers combat Amazon’s national threat.