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Whole Foods removes packaging with a cancer-linked chemical from its stores at CNBC. “The announcement came after advocacy groups Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families and Toxic-Free Future released a study that named Whole Foods as the worst of five grocery chains for packaging takeout food and bakery items in containers with PFAS, or polyfluoroalkyl substances.” Read more […]
Walmart is testing a robot fry cook named ‘Flippy’ at its delis by Julia La Roche at Yahoo Finance. “Walmart saw what we were doing and said, ‘Could you bring Flippy from Dodgers Stadium to our Culinary Institute?’” Miso Robotics CEO David Zito told Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Finance visited Flippy to see it in […]
Austrian retailers file antitrust complaint against Amazon at Reuters. “In a statement outlining its complaint, the Retail Association said the “main problem” was Amazon’s dual role as retailer and marketplace…93 percent of all Austrian online shoppers have made at least once purchase on Amazon.” Read more Costco ranked as best large company to […]
Kroger Q3 comp sales (without fuel) +1.6% / Total sales -0.3% Press release …Kroger Earnings Beat But Comp Sales Fall Short at Investor’s Business Daily. “Wall Street expected Kroger earnings per share to fall 2% to 43 cents (actual = 48 cents)…Comp sales were expected to rise 1.7% excluding fuel (actual = 1.6%), according to […]
Hudson’s Bay Q3 comp sales +2.9% / Saks Fifth Avenue comp +7.3% / DSG (Hudson’s Bay, Lord & Taylor & Home Outfitters) +0.9% / Saks Off 5th -2.3% Press release Trump panel wants to give USPS right to hike prices for Amazon, others at Reuters. “None of our findings or recommendations relate to […]
Dollar General Q3 comp sales +2.8% Press release AutoZone Q1 comp sales +2.7% Press release Kroger will Sell Groceries at Walgreens by Heather Haddon at Wall Street Journal. “The first “Kroger Express” sections will open by early next year in 13 Walgreens stores near the grocer’s Cincinnati headquarters. The companies said they […]
Amazon is reportedly testing its cashier-less technology in larger stores at The Wall Street Journal / The Verge. “The WSJ says that Amazon has improved the software in those (smaller) stores since they’ve opened, but apparently the technology still has trouble in those “bigger spaces with higher ceilings and more products,” according to the WSJ’s sources.” Read […]
Early Amazon investor John Doerr is convinced Jeff Bezos will roll out Prime Health at CNBC. Read more Sam’s Club planning to build corporate childcare facility by Paul Gatling at Talk Business. “Sam’s Club wants to build its development on land it owns at 2300 S.E. S St…expected to be about 17,500 square […]