Aiko TanakaE-Tailing
Dingdong Lifts Second Quarter Profit to $40 Million Ahead of Meituan Deal
Total revenue rose 8.6 per cent to $956.1 million as peak summer grocery orders pushed gross merchandise value to $1.07 billion.
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Maria SantosE-Tailing
Online grocery space likely to witness traction: Nielsen
With consumers being increasingly preferring digital channels for their purchases, the online grocery space is likely to witness traction, according to market research firm Nielsen. Grocery is definitely going to start seeing traction as e-commerce picks up,…
Rajiv MenonE-Tailing
Lazada to ramp up Southeast Asian grocery offering
Lazada Group has announced plans to ramp up its supermarket business in Southeast Asia as part of its strategy to become the region’s biggest e-commerce ecosystem. The supermarket transformation is being started off in Singapore, as homegrown online grocer…
Wei ZhangE-Tailing
Grofers crosses Rs 300 cr sales in single month
Grofers, the low price online supermarket, announced the record revenue of Rs 310 crore in January 2019. With this, Grofers became the first online grocer to cross Rs 300 crore in monthly sales and also became the largest e-grocery company in the fast growing…
Minjun ParkE-Tailing
Grofers eyes $2.5 billion in revenue by 2020
SoftBank-backed Grofers aims to garner $2.5 billion (approximately Rs 17,500 crore) in revenue by 2020 as it scales up its private label offerings in the country and focusses on expanding repeat purchases in its platform. The company, which has recently…
Aiko TanakaFood
Amazon to expand Whole Foods, open more stores
Nearly a year-and-a-half after Amazon acquired Whole Foods for approximately US US $13.5 billion, things are about to start changing. Amazon is planning to expand its Whole Foods Market portfolio by adding more stores to put more customers within its two-hour…
Minjun ParkE-Tailing
Walmart China tests same-day delivery from Dada
Walmart China has begun testing same-day grocery delivery in its Xiangmihu store. The new Walmart To Go service is available within a WeChat mini-program, following Walmart’s partnership with online social networking provider Tencent earlier this year. It is…
Aiko TanakaE-Tailing
BigBasket India eyes 40 pc revenue from private labels next fiscal
Chinese retail giant Alibaba-backed online grocery player BigBasket that aims to be a billion-dollar company by the next fiscal year, is expecting 40 percent of its projected revenue to come in from its private labels, a top company official has said.…
Maria SantosE-Tailing
What is the hot new “Boundaryless Retail” trend?
Chinese consumers are quickly adapting to buying groceries online for immediate delivery from local offline stores, according to a new joint study conducted by JD, Walmart, Tencent and JD Daojia. In China, where over 15% of consumption takes place online,…
Wei ZhangE-Tailing
Rakuten and Seiyu to partner in online grocery service
Japanese online retail company Rakuten is partnering with Walmart-owned supermarket Seiyu to launch an online grocery service. Spokespeople from the companies say about 20,000 products will be available on the site, drawn from the Seiyu range, including fresh…
Aiko TanakaE-Tailing
Honestbee risk losses with new experimental offerings
Online grocery service Honestbee has opened a retail space which merges cashless grocery store with a restaurant and a testbed for new retail technologies. Habitat by Honestbee in Pasir Panjang is billed as “the world’s first tech-integrated multi-sensory…
Maria SantosE-Tailing
JD launches online shopping service in Indonesia
Chinese e-commerce giant JD has initiated a grocery delivery service at Commuter Line train stations in the Greater Jakarta area. The new online retail store, JDVirtual, allows customers to use QR codes to purchase groceries to be delivered to their homes.…
Wei ZhangE-Tailing
BGF Retail outlines KRW30bn online investment
BGF, owner of Korean c-store chain CU, has boosted its stake in online grocery business Hello Nature. Founded in 2012, Hello Nature offers compact packaged-grocery deliveries. It was bought by SK Planet in 2016. Its sales reached US$9 million last year.…
Aiko TanakaE-Tailing
Tmall.com promotes same-day grocery delivery in China
Tmall.com, China’s largest business-to-consume platform and a unit of Alibaba Group, said on Friday that it has launched a CNY1 billion (USD161 million) online grocery promotional campaign targeted at Beijing users, and teamed up with Cainiao, the logistics…
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