All Online articles – Page 68
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NewsRapid grocer Gorillas to shed 300 staff and pull out of four markets
The company said it will now focus on five key markets: Germany, France, UK, the Netherlands and the US
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NewsEarth & Wheat expands into ‘wonky’ vegetable boxes to fight food waste
The business, founded by James Eid in 2021, is hoping to rival the likes of Oddbox
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NewsBeavertown Brewery launches monthly DTC subscription service
The 24-can monthly subscription was the ‘perfect gift for the beer lover in your life’, said Beavertown
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NewsTraditional shops paying ‘eight times more’ in business rates than online retailers
For every £100 earned by shops in Britain, £2.91 is payable in business rates, while for online retailers the figure is just 34p, according to Altus Group
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NewsOcado to acquire robotics startup to accelerate CFC bot rollout
The acquisition – the terms of which have been agreed – is expected to complete by 6 June this year. The value of the deal is €10.2m
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NewsSainsbury’s boosts number of stores on Deliveroo
An additional 65 Sainsbury’s stores have been brought onto the platform, bringing the total to 336 across the UK
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NewsCo-op to offer ‘walking deliveries’ from 200 stores this year
The deliveries will be made to customers within a comfortable 15-minute walk from the stores
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NewsJiffy to cease rapid grocery delivery to become dedicated software company
Click & collect from dark stores will continue “for the coming week or so”, with deliveries to customers ending even sooner.
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NewsStarship grocery delivery robots hit the pavements of Cambridgeshire
Residents living in Lower and Upper Cambourne order deliveries picked by store staff at the Co-op store in Mosquito Road, Upper Cambourne
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NewsPoundshop.com becomes platform for Poundland online expansion as it ‘retires’ Shop.poundland.co.uk
Poundland is moving thousands of products to Poundshop.com, from ambient food to homewares
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NewsSame-day personal shopper service Buymie secures £6m funding boost
Notable investors in the latest round include Keith Weed CBE, former marketing chief for Unilever, and Eamonn Quinn, former deputy chairman of the Superquinn
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WhitepapersYoung consumers identified as key to surviving the HFSS tsunami
Learn how young consumers are the key to unlocking success in a post-HFSS world.
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Analysis & FeaturesAs online slows, is the race for e-commerce space over?
Amazon’s slowdown has spooked the City. What happens now?
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NewsDeliveroo signs ‘historic’ recognition agreement with GMB Union
The Voluntary Partnership Agreement gives rider members of GMB rights to collective bargaining on pay and consultation rights on benefits
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NewsRapid grocer Jiffy launches fresh cooked pizza delivery in London
The ultra-fast delivery player has forged a partnership with Miguel’s Pizza to serve as an “on-site supplier”
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NewsSuperdrug extends same-day delivery service to Scotland
The retailer’s ‘Store to Door’ courier service is from this week available to shoppers within a five-mile radius of stores in Glasgow and Edinburgh regions
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NewsMeal planning and shopping platform Lollipop secures £5m in seed round
The latest fundraise, led by Octopus Ventures, follows a pre-seed round carried out in December 2020
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NewsOnline surplus stock supermarket Motatos to launch in UK next month
The company was founded in 2014 in Sweden – where it is known as Matsmart – and later expanded into Denmark and Finland
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NewsCo-op trials window hatch click & collect service at Brighton store
Co-op said the initiative was designed to enable time-pressed shoppers to pick up orders without having to go in store and queue
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NewsTesco online chief joins Google after ‘most intense period of my career’
Poad, MD of online at Tesco since October 2019, led the supermarket’s online teams as they tackled soaring lockdown-induced demand