EQUITY RETAIL BLOG

Walmart proves to be cheapest option for grocery delivery, now offering unlimited service

Last month CNBC compared prices on Amazon Prime Now, Peapod and Walmart for grocery items to be delivered in Northern New Jersey. They looked at 25 “everyday” items, including a mix of national brands and each retailer’s store brands, and organic and traditional products. The result? A cart of nearly identical items delivered to your […]

Wawa plans 40 stores in Northern Virginia

Wawa announced last month that it plans to open 40 stores in Northern Virginia in the next 15 years. The company currently operates about 850 stores in Delaware, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, DC. Wawa’s Florida expansion began in 2012, and today there are 165 units in the state.

Brick and mortar supermarkets continue to lose market share

According to research by Inmar Analytics, traditional supermarkets lost food retail market share to nontraditional grocery competitors and convenience stores in 2018. Last year supermarkets, fresh formats, limited-assortment stores, superwarehouses and small grocery stores saw sales drop 1.1%, lowering dollar share 1.7% year over year to 43.8%. In addition, the traditional supermarket store count fell […]

Amazon technology to allow payment via hand scanning at Whole Foods

Several publications reported last month that Amazon is planning to introduce a biometric payment method in Whole Foods stores. In other words, customers with a Prime account and a card on file will be able to scan their hand at checkout to make a purchase. With this technology and payment method, customers won’t actually have […]

It Is EASIER To Go From Digital To Physical Retailing Than Vice Versa

Chris Walton, Forbes.com One of the prevailing fallacies within the industry right now is that it is easier for a physical retailer to learn digital retailing than it is for a digital retailer to learn physical retailing. It is an enticing argument to make — physical stores make up a larger proportion of sales than […]

The Rise of the Virtual Restaurant

Retail Dining is undergoing a sea-change in recent years By Mike Isaac and David Yaffe-Bellany Aug. 14, 2019 Restaurateurs are adding “virtual” restaurants to expand their delivery options – and most of us have no idea we’re ordering from restaurants that don’t actually exist!  A recent New York Times article by Mike Isaac & David […]

The Benefits of Sale-Leaseback Transactions

A sale-leaseback is a transaction in which an investor buys a property that is already being owned and operated by someone else. But instead of taking control of the property, the buyer leases it back to the seller under terms and conditions on which they both agree, with the seller becoming the buyer’s tenant. Sale-leasebacks […]

Walmart dominates online grocery in the U.S.

According to research published earlier this summer by Second Measure, Walmart is dominating the online grocery market in the U.S., with 62% more customers than its nearest competitor, Instacart. The rankings are as follows: 1. Walmart 2. Instacart 3. Amazon Prime Now 4. AmazonFresh 5. Shipt 6. FreshDirect 7. Peapod Interestingly, Walmart has less than […]

Are Aldi and Trader Joe’s related?

It’s a popular question, and the answer is no. They do have a shared history, though. Aldi opened its first store in Germany in the early 1900s. After World War II, the owner’s sons took over and expanded the business into one of the largest grocery chains in Europe, with hundreds of locations. In 1960 […]

Redner’s Fresh Market to open in former Audubon, PA Genuardi’s site

Redner’s Fresh Market plans to open this fall in a former Genuardi’s location in Audubon, PA. It will be the second Fresh Market for Redner’s, which operates warehouse grocery stores and Quick Shoppe convenience stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. Redner’s President Ryan Redner said in a press release that the Audubon store will be […]