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Instacart Looks Beyond Delivery with Suite of Tools to Support Grocery’s Digital Transformation

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Instacart already powers the ecommerce and fulfillment experience for hundreds of retailers across North America. Now the online grocery marketplace has launched a suite of technologies to help its partners continue their digital transformation with new fulfillment , advertising and insights capabilities.

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Automation: The Driving Force Behind Warehouse Management Growth

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A growing retail and ecommerce business can turn an efficient process into a multi-step nightmare with inaccurate purchasing, order fulfillment and returns processes. However, this doesn’t mean introducing robotics into warehouse operations and completely cutting down the labor force. A One-Size-Fits-All Strategy Won’t Work.

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Express to Expand Retail Presence in Indonesia, Paraguay and Central America

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WHP also will build up the brand’s presence in Mexico with IB Group and grow its brick-and-mortar footprint in Central America via its partnership with Fastco , including four new Express stores in key locations through 2026. The company also plans for shop-in-shop experiences in Mexico and Indonesia.

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Store Management Costs in the Era of Ecommerce

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Food retail demand has become fractured across multiple channels, with traditional brick-and-mortar formats losing out to the online medium. in 2022 and 2026 respectively. shows that manually picking online orders from a store and delivering it for free has a typical operating margin of -15%. of total US grocery sales.

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Overcoming the On-Demand Delivery Tradeoff: How to Keep Customers Without Cutting Profits

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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically accelerated the growth of ecommerce and raised consumer expectations for seamless, almost instantaneous fulfillment, on-demand deliveries were already becoming the norm across the globe. billion in 2026. In the U.S. billion in 2020 to $33.7

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4 Steps to Operations and Fulfillment Transformation

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With ecommerce already on the upswing and expected to grow to one-quarter of all global retail sales by 2026, retailers have a golden opportunity to capitalize on this disruptive time and protect their brand against future supply chain bottlenecks while establishing themselves as industry leaders.

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E-Commerce is Changing: Reducing Friction and Increasing Agility are the Key

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Combined with an uncertain economic outlook, retail margins continue to be under pressure due to intense competition, higher fulfillment costs, and higher return rates. And brands can access new demand channels and expand the reach of their products.