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Instacart Gets Red Bull And Doritos To Pay Your Delivery Fees

Online shoppers hate paying delivery fees. So Instacart Inc. is getting Pepsi to foot the bill. The grocery delivery startup is working with Genera...

Is Amazon About To Shake Up The UK Online Grocery Market?

With talks of an Ocado takeover, and Amazon Pantry having already planted its roots in the UK, the British retail grocery market is braced for the imminent...

Eroski Grows Online Sales By 12% In 2015

Spanish supermarket chain Eroski saw its online sales grow by 12 per cent in 2015, which, the company says, has been "driven by its renewed multichann...

A Bug In Asda’s Website May Have Put Customers’ Details At Risk

A bug in the Asda website may have given hackers the chance to collect customers’ personal information and payment details, BBC.com has reported....

One Third Of Click-And-Collect Customers Had Order Difficulties

Some 36 per cent of UK click-and-collect shoppers experienced issues when ordering products during the Christmas period, according to the JDA/Centiro Chris...

Mobile Devices Help Grow LeShop.ch Sales By 6.6 Per Cent

Swiss online supermarket and Migros subsidiary LeShop.ch grew its sales by 6.6 per cent in 2015 to CHF 176 million, with 40 per cent of all orders placed v...

Online Surge Means Many Not-So-Happy Returns for Retailers

A surge in online sales in the US this holiday season is boosting expenses for some retailers as more shoppers return merchandise purchased with the click...

Amazon Said To Mull Leasing Planes To Control Delivery Chain

Amazon.com Inc. is considering leasing 20 Boeing Co. 767 freighter jets to help gain more control over its delivery methods and costs, according to a perso...