EQUITY RETAIL BLOG

Giant Food to open Friday in Broomall, PA

Giant Food’s long-awaited store will open in Broomall, PA this Friday. The 74,000 square foot store will replace the current Springfield Road location. Two hundred people will fill full and part-time positions, an increase of 50 employees from the closing store. The store will feature the usual modern departments as well as a pharmacy, and […]

Lidl to open two Long Island stores next week

Lidl announced yesterday that it plans to open its first two Long Island stores on December 11. The locations will be in Center Moriches – in a former Waldbaum’s, and in West Babylon – in a converted Best Market. Stores in Plainview, Huntington, East Meadow, Oakdale, Patchogue and Lake Grove are planned for 2020. Five […]

Ahold Delhaize piloting small-format, cashierless store in Quincy, MA

Ahold Delhaize, the parent company of Giant Food, announced that it is piloting a small-format store concept at its office in Quincy, MA called “lunchbox” that uses friction-less checkout technology. Similar to Amazon Go stores, lunchbox enables customers to make cashier-less purchases by scanning in as they enter, selecting items and then walking out. According […]

Albertsons closes Hatfield fulfillment center

Acme’s parent company announced that it closed a 56,186 square foot fulfillment center in Hatfield, PA that was used by Plated, a meal kit company it purchased two years ago. The closure by Albertsons affects 56 people, according to a state filing. Albertsons plans to discontinue the Plated subscription service and turn it into an […]

Enjoy Chick-fil-A Without Talking to Anyone

MSN Money, Michael Tedder It’s no secret that fast food orders take longer than they used to these days, but Chick-fil-A may have found a way to speed things up. After a limited test run in five markets last year, this week Chick-fil-A debuted “dine-in mobile ordering” that will eliminate the need for customers to wait […]

Walmart Shows How to Compete Against Amazon

November 14, 2019, Sarah Halzack | Bloomberg The uncertainties for Walmart Inc. were piling up in the third quarter, both external (tariff whiplash, recession fears) and internal (a management shuffle in the U.S.). But judging by its Thursday earnings report, the big-box giant was unruffled by all the change.  Walmart boosted its full-year earnings outlook […]

Amazon prepping for first non-Whole Foods grocery store

Amazon revealed that it is planning to open a non-Whole Foods grocery store next year in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The 35,000 square foot store will occupy a space vacated by Toys R Us. It will include standard checkout lanes, unlike its Amazon Go locations. According to reports, the online shopping […]

Weis Markets opens store in Bedminster, PA

Weis Markets opened last week at the corner of Routes 113 and 313 in Bedminster Township, Bucks County, PA. The 61,000 square foot store is the company’s eighth location in the Delaware Valley, and overall Weis Markets operates about 200 supermarkets in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Virginia and West Virginia. The new […]

Ahold Delhaize pilots checkout-free store similar to Amazon Go

Ahold Delhaize, the Netherlands-based grocer that operates the Giant Food, Giant/Martin’s, Stop & Shop, Food Lion and Hannaford banners in the U.S., said last month that it is testing a checkout-free “NanoStore” – similar to Amazon Go – in its home country. The 150 square foot store – called AH To Go and located in […]

Small NJ chain to switch from Foodtown to The Fresh Grocer

It was reported last week that Nicholas Markets, a four-store grocery retailer operating under the Foodtown banner, is leaving the Allegiance Retail Services cooperative to join Wakefern. Upon their conversion, the stores will be rebranded as The Fresh Grocer. Nicholas Markets CEO David Maniaci was the longtime chairman and CEO of Allegiance until recently, but […]