by Brittain Ladd | Aug 3, 2020 | E-Commerce, Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
Articles about Instacart continue to appear in the press but for all the wrong reasons. The most recent articles outline that Instacart workers are losing money because bots are being used by some Instacart workers to snatch the most lucrative orders within...
by Brittain Ladd | Aug 3, 2020 | Grocery, No Retreat, No Surrender, Retail
The Labor Department reports that food prices have increased to their highest levels. Prices for meats, poultry, fish and eggs increased the most rising 4.3% Stated simply, consumers are being crushed by the price of groceries. Will prices come down? No. They’re...
by Brittain Ladd | Jul 28, 2020 | Articles, Delivery, Forbes, Grocery
GETTY Read original article on Forbes. According to research, Americans purchased more than $680 billion in groceries in 2019. In a word, the grocery industry is big business. To meet the demand for groceries in the U.S., retailers operate over 38,000 grocery stores,...
by Brittain Ladd | Jul 10, 2020 | Articles, Delivery, E-Commerce, Grocery, Retail
I had the pleasure of recently speaking with Louis Borders, the founder of Borders bookstores, and the first heavily-automated online grocery retailer, Webvan. I didn’t just interview Borders and ask him the same questions he’s already been asked hundreds...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 19, 2020 | Articles, E-Commerce, Grocery, Retail
Retail sales in 2020 are expected to reach $5 trillion dollars and by 2023, retail sales globally are estimated to reach $30 trillion U.S. dollars. Retail is big business. Inspired by a desire to reimagine retail as we know it, Ali Ahmed, Tigran Shahverdyan and Emad...
by Brittain Ladd | Jun 17, 2020 | Articles, E-Commerce, Grocery, Retail
On June 16, 2017, Amazon announced that they had acquired Whole Foods for $13.4B. I was not surprised at the announcement as I had made such a recommendation in this 2013 research paper. Amazon has owned Whole Foods for three years. Was the acquisition worth it? Has...
