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Who selected the Lady Gaga song you’re hearing at the grocery store? 

by Janet Nguyen
Mar 14, 2025
Employees and marketing teams select songs from music providers, taking into account customer and employee feedback.
The right music can boost grocery sales, according to one Norwegian study.
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Amazon finds in-store grocery a harder sell

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 13, 2025
The e-commerce and cloud company has slowed grocery expansion plans and closed half of its convenience stores in recent years.
Amazon's Fresh grocery chain has a relatively small footprint, and the tech giant doesn't appear to be focused on expanding it.
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Instacart's shaky forecast raises questions for the future of grocery delivery

by Daniel Ackerman
Feb 26, 2025
With retailers like Kroger and Walmart growing their own services, grocery delivery has become a crowded market.
Instacart's recent forecast may mean trouble for grocery delivery services.
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This is why your local diner and grocery store aren’t open 24 hours anymore

by Janet Nguyen
Nov 21, 2024
A variety of businesses, including restaurants and grocery stores, cut back hours amid inflation, changing consumer habits and challenges in finding workers.
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Amazon makes a bigger bet on consumer appetite for grocery delivery

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Dec 8, 2023
In its bid for a bigger bite out of the $800 billion-a-year grocery market, the company is testing a new delivery subscription.
"Nobody makes money on (grocery delivery)," says Phil Lempert, editor of Supermarket Guru. "It's more of a way to build a relationship with people."
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In Marrakesh, tourism is frozen. So is the economy.

by Marketplace Staff
May 28, 2020
A Marrakesh grocer weighs in why tourism is the biggest factor in his business.
A Morrocan woman wearing a protective mask walks through the nearly deserted Jamaa el-Fna square in Marrakesh on March 17, 2020, days before Moroccan authorities implemented a strict lockdown.
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How We Shop

Shopping in the gig economy after retirement

by Sean McHenry
Dec 13, 2019
One retiree earns a little extra with a shopping app.
Shipt bags on display.
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Walmart will deliver groceries directly to some customers' fridges

by Marielle Segarra
Oct 15, 2019
The retail will live stream the deliveries to you ... if you're comfortable letting a stranger into your home.
Walmart will deliver groceries directly to your fridge. Above, a Walmart store in Troy, Ohio.
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Kroger taps into the demand for meat substitutes

by Marielle Segarra
Sep 12, 2019
The grocery chain joins companies like Hormel and Tyson which are also entering the market of meat alternatives.
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Communities are creating their own solutions to food deserts

by Grant Blankenship
May 21, 2018
Kroger say it’s closing about 40 stores nationwide. Many are in neighborhoods the U.S. Department of Agriculture already calls food deserts. That’s a place where food is hard to get, either because it’s too  far away or it’s not affordable. Kroger says the closed stores weren’t making money. As communities that used to depend on […]
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