more online retail news & analysis – Page 58
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Smash: Healthy food discount app for young people launches
Participating brands include Graze, Whitworths, Ugly Drinks, This, Meatless Farm and Deliciously Ella
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Iceland rolling out same-day scheduled delivery nationwide
The frozen food retailer is set to offer same-day slots from 400 stores within the next few weeks, The Grocer can reveal
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Amazon opens fourth checkout-free Fresh store, in Canary Wharf
Amazon has opened new Fresh stores in the capital at a rate of one every 19 days
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Comment & Opinion
Why apps need to become core to the grocery shopping experience
For too long apps have been treated as just an additional transactional platform, says Harry Walker, industry head of grocery retail at Google
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Iceland expands Uber Eats trial beyond London
The trial has quietly grown to 20 stores, taking it as far beyond London as Letchworth in Hertfordshire and Colchester in Essex
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City News: Analysts react positively to THG/Softbank tie-up
Softbank has provided THG with $730m as part of a $1bn capital raising.
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Ocado ad is visually inventive and aurally annoying
An Ocado advert is a rare thing – and who’d have thought a year ago that it would require one?
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Amazon to create 10,000 new permanent UK jobs this year
It will open four new CFCs across the country throughout this year
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Health & Her claims first with perimenopause supplement and app
Perimenopause Multi-Symptom capsules features a blend of phytoestrogens, vitamins, minerals and herbs
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Trustpilot investigates The Range over ‘incentives for reviews’
The consumer reviews platform has sent The Range a written formal warning based on evidence gathered from reviewers, following an enquiry by The Grocer
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Tesco-backed checkout-free tech firm Trigo partners with Rewe on Cologne store
Germany’s second-largest food retail chain has launched the checkout-free option at a store in Cologne
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Deliveroo offers free keyring safety alarms to riders
The keyring safety alarms “let off a loud, high-pitched noise and emit a bright flashing light” when activated
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Deliveroo and grocery partners to deliver one million meals to those in need
The initiative will see Deliveroo riders pick up food that would otherwise go to waste from Co-op, Waitrose and Pret a Manger
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Tesco CTO Guus Dekkers joins executive committee
The promotion ‘reiterates the growing importance we assign to technology & digitalisation’ said group CEO Ken Murphy in an email to Tesco staff
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Rapid grocer Fancy reveals UK expansion plan following Gopuff acquisition
Fancy offers products across several categories, promising delivery within 30 minutes
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Waitrose introduces online delivery fee to ‘bring us in line with rest of market’
The delivery fee was introduced quietly late last month as part of a “trial” at selected stores across the UK
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Comment & Opinion
As workplaces reopen, online grocery faces a new ‘shape of the week’ challenge
Expect a flurry of delivery innovations from the supermarkets in coming months
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Smol raises $34m to expand DTC detergent startup
Smol, founded by two former Unilever directors, has raised $34m (£24.1m) in a funding round
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Hotel Chocolat shares soar on expectation of post-lockdown profits boom
Revenues at the business in the eight weeks to 25 April were 19% higher than two years ago
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Waitrose ends two-hour Rapid delivery in favour of Deliveroo
Waitrose said its Rapid service and Deliveroo partnership were operating ‘with lots of overlap’