Express grocery delivery is the buzzword in European retail at the moment, and few operators have set the bar as high as Russia’s Yandex.Lavka, which promises deliveries within 10 to 15 minutes. This article first appeared in ESM July/August 2021. As the old Andy Warhol quote goes, “In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes.” What the late pop artist might not have also realised is that the same time period could soon be sufficient to place, and receive, a basket of… Source link
Read More »Clover Health adds grocery benefit, Walmart online food delivery
Clover Health (CLOV) is joining other Medicare Advantage (MA) plans in offering a grocery benefit to its members, an option that was first made available by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2018. Clover CEO Vivek Garipalli told Yahoo Finance the goal is to help alleviate health-determining factors, known in the industry as social determinants of health, which include access to healthy food. Major MA players like Humana (HUM) and Centene (CNC) have already begun to… Source link
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Read More »Google Pay serves up grocery deals for Safeway
Albertsons Cos.’ Safeway chain and Target Corp. stores are helping shoppers find deals on groceries via Google. Mountain View, Calif.-based Google said yesterday it has partnered with Safeway and Target to simplify the task of finding grocery and other specials using the Google Pay app. Customers can find deals on thousands of items at more than 500 Safeway stores as well as at all Target stores nationwide. Related: Albertsons, Google eye… Source link
Read More »Yandex Rovers starts making autonomous deliveries from Moscow grocery stores – Retail Times
Yandex Rovers is continuing to expand its reach by providing autonomous delivery services from Moscow supermarkets. Amid growing consumer appetite for on-demand food delivery, Yandex Self-Driving Group has expanded delivery by rover couriers beyond restaurants and its own Yandex.Lavka dark stores. Yandex Rovers has started making deliveries from Azbuka Vkusa and VkusVill supermarkets in the central Moscow district of Khamovniki, with plans to extend rover delivery to other… Source link
Read More »Yandex.Lavka expands grocery delivery service in Russia — Retail Technology Innovation Hub
Kazan joins Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and the suburbs of Tel Aviv, where Yandex.Lavka operates via a network of more than 280 local warehouse sites. It is currently available from 7am to 11:30pm in Kazan, with plans to switch to a 24-hour service. Orders can be placed via the Yandex.Eats, Yandex.Lavka, Yandex Go, and Yandex.Market apps for iOS and Android. Everli Earlier this week, European e-grocery marketplace, Everli, raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by… Source link
Read More »Albertsons partners with Google to bring AI and other advanced technologies to grocery customers
Albertsons Cos. Inc. ACI, +0.25% said Tuesday that, after a year of planning in partnership with Google GOOGL, -0.02% GOOG, -0.14%, the two companies will launch a series of technologies to enhance the grocery shopping experience. Using artificial intelligence (AI), the companies will provide hyperlocal information about where shoppers can find and purchase products. Enhanced features will also allow shoppers to… Source link
Read More »Albertsons Companies and Google Partner to Reinvent the Future of Grocery Shopping
BOISE, Idaho & SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Albertsons Companies and Google today announced a multi-year partnership to make shopping easier and more convenient for millions of customers nationwide. The partnership brings together the power of Albertsons Cos.’ broad reach across 2,253 neighborhoods with Google’s capabilities in customer-centric innovation, creating a formidable nexus of retail savvy and trend-setting technology on a massive, omnichannel scale. Google… Source link
Read More »Skip the grocery store line and shop for food through Walmart in your Yahoo Mail app
This article is brought to you by Walmart and created by In The Know’s commerce team. If you decide to purchase products through the links below, we may receive a commission. Pricing and availability are subject to change. You’ve probably heard the motivational saying, “You have the same amount of hours in a day as Beyoncé.” OK, sure, but Beyoncé probably has loads of help in completing her daily to-do list. For example, you don’t see the megastar walking the aisles of a grocery… Source link
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GlobeNewswire Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Declares a 3.72% Dividend for Fourth Quarter 2020 ATLANTA, Jan. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) today approved a fourth quarter 2020 cash dividend at an annualized rate of 3.72 percent. “Despite the continuing economic challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta ended the year on stable footing,” said FHLBank Atlanta Chair of… Source link
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