A few weeks back, I wrote about a significant retrenching of the eatsa business, which involved the closing of their New York restaurants and retrenching back to their San Francisco units. At the same time, the company announced that technology would begin to appear as…
As part of my job as a retail strategy consultant, I travel the country and the world preaching the need for innovation in an industry that is being overrun by the growth of e-commerce on the one hand and the generally poor experience at brick…
According to German trade press, Lidl announced a management change that will lead to new supervision in Germany of the U.S. market. Though local U.S. management disputes aspects of the store which pointed to “frighteningly weak” performance at some of the current 37 stores, it…
Whole Foods dropped prices in their stores on the first day of Amazon’s official ownership. It is the first of what I suspect will be many new actions as of a result of this marriage and it certainly was one of the easier ones to…
I’ve been to the Meow Mix Café pop up (a chance to dine with your cats?) so there is not much that can shock me anymore. So, the news of The Spotted Cheetah, devoted to Cheetos-inspired dishes, which will open in New York City’s Tribeca…
Meal prep pioneer Blue Apron went public under the symbol APRN. The stock was floated at the low end of the expected range and the stock closed at the opening price after a brief rally earlier in the day. The wind instantly came out of…
Food delivery startups gained popularity among Venture Capital investors around 2010, leaving Blue Apron and other large players to pioneer the industry with high valuations and encouraging more new competition to enter the market. While there has been a remarkable diversity of proposed solutions, from…
Meal prep pioneer Blue Apron has filed for an IPO on the NYSE under the symbol APRN. If successful, it will be the first of its genre to make the transition to a public company. This is happening at the same time that some notable…
The underlying troubles that are resulting in 2017’s Retailmageddon are well documented, with the growing number of bankruptcies fueled by the growing impact of e-commerce and the general overcapacity of retail space. Grocery, however, has long been considered immune from the e-commerce space and even…
FreshDirect joins another prominent New Yorker (insert your own political commentary here) in moving to the nation’s capital as the online grocery wars heat up. Earlier this month, Fresh Direct built a distribution center in Prince Georges County to serve residents living in D.C., Arlington…
