Every month, one of our partners from our global alliance of retail and brand consulting firms, Ebeltoft Group, will share an innovative case from their country. This month it was our turn. Amanda Lai, Director at McMillanDoolittle, visited Chicago based grocer Dom’s Kitchen & Market to…
On November 1st, the locally beloved Chicago grocer Dom’s Kitchen & Market opened its second location in the Old Town neighborhood. The specialty grocery concept provides customers with globally inspired food and beverage options, prioritizing partnerships with local providers to ensure the highest quality products….
Whole Foods recently opened a 21,000 square foot store in the Glover Park neighborhood of Washington D.C. It is notable for being only the second “full sized” supermarket to incorporate the Just Walk Out technology that first appeared in Amazon Go stores and more recently…
McMillanDoolittle and The Stores Consulting Group kicked off an inaugural, invitation-only webinar series with a conversation with industry veteran Fred Morganthall, former President of Harris Teeter and EVP of Operations at Kroger. Leveraging over 40 years of food retail experience, Fred Morganthall discussed the journey…
Amazon Fresh and Dom’s Kitchen & Market are two leading food retail concepts that have emerged in the US over the past year. Look up either retailer and you will find search results that hail both concepts as the “future of grocery” and the “store…
Register to Download This Free Recording with our Perspective on the Opportunities Facing Grocery Ecommerce Fulfillment Today Earlier this month, McMillanDoolittle’s Emerson Delgado joined Takeoff Technologies co-founder and President Max Pedro to headline a webinar hosted by Supermarket News to discuss the pandemic-fueled explosion in online grocery sales…
Earlier this spring, we had the opportunity to travel to the Monterrey area in Northern Mexico to visit leading retailers with one of our valued client teams. As the pandemic began to ebb, we saw crowds of shoppers, bustling restaurants, and innovative retail concepts. Here…
In late July, FreshDirect announced that it would be partnering with Fabric Robotics to build a micro-fulfillment center (MFC) in Washington D.C., providing same-day delivery to area customers. The online-only grocer has traditionally only done next-day fulfillment, but is planning to expand same-day throughout the…
Understandably, the retail food industry has been consumed with responding to current events. With a global pandemic rocking the market, we have seen an unprecedented impact on the retail industry in general and the food industry in particular. For years, I have focused on the…
The COVID-19 crisis has quickly swept over the US, amassing over 1.5 million cases and 90,000+ deaths through May 18 (NYT COVID Tracker). Consumers have responded with dramatic shifts in shopping and purchasing behaviors. While some of these new behaviors are probably short-term responses to…
