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Albertsons Companies has partnered with Uber to introduce grocery delivery service to around 1200 Albertsons-owned stores, including Safeway, Jewel-Osco, Tom Thumb and Randalls. Available in more than 400 cities and towns According to Uber, its on-demand grocery delivery service, which launched last July, is currently available in more than 400 cities and towns, and will be offered nationwi...

Dutch dairy company FrieslandCampina has announced the introduction of its first 50 tonnes hydrogen-powered milk truck, in a bid to improve the sustainability of milk transport. Supporting infrastructure available in the Groningen region, for now At the moment, the infrastructure that allows for the use of hydrogen milk trucks is only available in the Groningen region (the Netherlands). How...

Walmart is teaming up with technology company Symbotic to deploy robotics at 25 regional distribution centres (RDCs). Building on a 2017 pilot The move follows a 2017 pilot that has seen Symbotic introduce its autonomous robotics platform to Walmart’s distribution centre in Brooksville, Florida, which is able to sort, store, retrieve and pack freight onto pallets. Source: Walmart ...

Lidl GB has announced climate targets to become carbon neutral by 2022. Working with suppliers to set their own climate targets The discounter has pledged to reduce emissions from its own operations (Scope 1 & 2), in line with the 1.5 degrees pathway. By 2030, Lidl aims to cut its operational emissions by 80% (compared to 2019) across all countries it operates in. How will it achieve thi...

Co-op is set to expand its in-store recycling scheme for plastic bags and product wrapping. 2300 stores by November According to the Co-op, once the rollout is completed, it will host Europe’s most extensive in-store network recycling scheme for problem plastics. The scheme has been rolled out to 1,500 stores this month, and is set to be introduced to a total of 2,300 stores by November. ...

As Casino renews its partnership with Deliveroo and partners with Google Cloud and Accenture, we round up these and other innovations from the business. Casino renews partnership with Deliveroo… Casino has renewed its partnership with Deliveroo, which began in 2020 and will now last for an additional two years. The increased collaboration between the two companies will be at three levels. F...

Carrefour Belgium is teaming up with Google Cloud to bring its SAP systems and supply chain data to the cloud. Creating a new data cloud and migrating data centres The retailer, it is building a new data cloud and migrating its data centers to Google BigQuery for storage and analysis, which will help create a framework for next-generation projects in mobile and ecommerce, data analytics, an...

The Kroger Co. is collaborating with KNAPP to deploy, expand, and enhance the capabilities and capacity of the retailer's existing Great Lakes Distribution Center (DC) in Delaware, Ohio. Introducing KNAPP’s OSR shuttles According to The Kroger Co., the Great Lakes DC will use KNAPP’s OSR (order, storage and retrieval) shuttles to deliver grocery cases to robotic palletizers, which prepare i...

Albertsons is partnering with DoorDash, Gopuff makes two key acquisitions and Uber picks up remainder of Cornershop. We look at what these latest deals mean for the sector. Albertsons partners with Door Dash for on-demand Albertsons is partnering on-demand delivery company, DoorDash, to offer delivery in up to one hour from almost 2,000 stores. Shoppers will be able to order from over 40,00...

Building on an existing partnership with DroneUp, Walmart is investing in the company to support its work in developing a scalable last-mile delivery solution. Earlier this year, it invested in self-driving company, Cruise. Flights over people and moving vehicles Walmart and DroneUp partnered last year to launch trial deliveries of at-home COVID-19 self-collection kits. Since the launch, se...