We interrupt this regularly scheduled program about the online grocery dominance of Amazon and Walmart to bring you a newsflash: Kroger isn’t waving the white flag in the online grocery wars anytime soon. We repeat: the largest pure-play grocer in the U.S. is not giving up on e-commerce. On the contrary, Kroger is playing offense,…
In early 2017, Target unveiled its long-term plan to reinvigorate the retailer after its disappointing performance the previous year. Target vowed to invest more than $7 billion in capital over the next three years, and about $1 billion in annual operating profits to position the company as a digital-first retailer that was willing to take…
Did you know that Walmart recently surpassed Apple to become the world’s third largest online retailer? How about that Walmart proclaimed itself to be a technology company at this year’s South By Southwest conference? With the constant attention given to Amazon and its e-commerce dominance, you might think that focusing resources on other online retailers…
In April, Amazon attempted to throw a proverbial knockout punch to the competition by announcing that it was “currently working on evolving the Prime shipping program, which has historically been a two-day program, to a one-day shipping program.” While most analysts called the move a win for Amazon before the “punch” even landed, others (like…
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