UK online grocery giant Ocado starts offering Express It slots to customers, same-day delivery
Ocado has contacted customers to let them know same-day delivery is now available.
The email read: “Need ingredients for tonight's dinner? Or just want your favorite snack? Express It.”
“Yes, same-day delivery is now a reality, we've named it Express It Slots. The gist is that you can find this new same-day delivery slot on your regular booking page and book it up until 11am for delivery after 4pm on the same day. And that's it.”
RTIH tested the service and found that at 8am on Saturday, August 17, the earliest available slot was between 4.30pm and 5.30pm, costing £5.99, with a later slot that evening also being offered for £4.99.
As U.S. senators press Kroger's president for 'exorbitant' price hikes, electronic shelf labels are not the enemy
A recent letter from Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen asked for “further information to better understand the justification and risks of electronic shelving.”
“Increased use of dynamic pricing will result in increased profits for companies and passed on to consumers,” the senators said.
“It is outrageous that grocery giants like Kroger continue to gouging prices and engaging in other unfair corporate profit-making tactics while families continue to struggle to pay for food,” they wrote.
That's a misconception, according to Brittain Rudd, a supply chain consultant and former Amazon executive who said he read the letter with amusement.
Alan Affleroo Adopts Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud Platform for Franchises Around the World
Alain Afflelou, a franchise provider of optical and hearing solutions, is using Informatica’s AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform to manage data collected from franchisees across 19 countries and make critical business decisions.
Alain Afflelou was founded in France in 1972. The company has grown to more than 1,400 independently owned franchise stores worldwide providing vision and hearing health solutions.
Afflelou's primary customers are franchisees who are independent merchants, which means data definitions, configurations, types and formats vary by region, making data governance a major challenge.
Afflelou engaged Informatica to develop a global, cloud-based data management solution with strong data governance capabilities to ensure data quality and confidentiality.
Comment: STRATACACHE CEO and Founder Chris Riegel talks about new digital media opportunities
Retailers can offer advertisers something illusory, yet highly profitable: accurate, attributable, and immediately actionable data.
Over $140 billion will be spent on digital retail advertising worldwide this year.
Amazon appears to be making more money from its advertising services than from fulfilling its products. Retail media has been hailed by many as a gold rush, and looking at these numbers it's easy to see why.
Many retailers are expanding their operations to increase opportunities to reach key customer demographics (and more importantly, key new revenue streams) through retail media advertising.
Looking at this gold rush, some might argue that the stores themselves are a frontier yet to be fully explored and mined: Online growth has plateaued since the end of the pandemic, with 93% of retail spending still being spent in brick-and-mortar stores.
