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Restaurant search engine FoodBoss adds support for

Source: eCommerce – TechCrunch
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He emphasized that FoodBoss will remain agnostic about how you order — the goal is just to show you all the options, and to highlight the ordering method that best matches your priorities. “At FoodBoss, we’re focused on making sure we’re helping third parties and [restaurants] ha

Amazon launches a program to pay consumers for the

Source: eCommerce – TechCrunch
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Amazon has launched a new program that directly pays consumers for information about what they’re purchasing outside of Amazon.com and for responding to short surveys. The program, Amazon Shopper Panel, asks users to send in 10 receipts per month for any purchases made at non-Am

GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays cent

Source: eCommerce – TechCrunch
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GrubMarket, which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has

Diminished choice in your neighborhood supermarket

Source: Marginal Revolution
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Americans are spending more, yet increasingly they are being offered fewer choices, both online and in person, slowing a years-long trend toward innovations that put “good for you” and “environmentally friendly” spins on established and much-loved products.

That Whole Foods is an Amazon warehouse; get used

Source: eCommerce – TechCrunch
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Earlier this week, in Brooklyn, near the waterfront, Amazon opened what looks from the outside like a typical Whole Foods store. It isn’t open to the public, however; it’s a new fulfillment center.

Walmart+ launches Sept 15, offering same-day deliv

Source: eCommerce – TechCrunch
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Walmart today officially unveiled its new membership service and Amazon Prime rival, which it’s calling “Walmart+.” The $98 per year service will combine free, unlimited same-day delivery on groceries and thousands of other items, with additional benefits, like fuel discounts an

Amazon opens its first Amazon Fresh physical groce

Source: eCommerce – TechCrunch
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You might be thinking to yourself, “but Amazon already has Whole Foods and smaller Amazon Go stores?” The idea here will be to build a new grocery store experience from the ground up, targeting a different customer. Indeed, this is par for the course with all consumer packaged go

Amazon Eyeing Mall Anchor Stores as Fulfillment Ce

Source: E-Commerce Times
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The deal with Simons Property Group would give Amazon access to space formerly occupied by Sears and J.C. Penney, both of which have filed for bankruptcy, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

Direct-to-consumer cat food startup Smalls raises

Source: eCommerce – TechCrunch
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And Smalls, a cat food startup that launched in 2018, is announcing today that it has raised $9 million in Series A funding.