PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Digital delivery service goPuff will acquire BevMo , a specialty beverage retailer based on the U.S. West Coast, according to a blog post from goPuff. BevMo will get new customers from the deal, along with access to immediate delivery of everyday items like baby and pet products, cleaning supplies, food, alcohol and local favorites.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Several reports late in the week are spelling trouble for Amazon’s Whole Foods. PYMNTS has its own data on the high-end grocery chain – but first, let’s get into the reports that spawned headlines like Bloomberg’s “ Does Amazon Even Care About Whole Foods Anymore?”. Of course, Amazon cares about Whole Foods. percent overall.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As noted in a blog post featured on Business 2 Community , the overall trend has been one where consumers expect an ever tightening window for deliveries, but logistics are ever more complex. All categories of spend, from pet food to clothes to food and beverages, saw double-digit declines in physical channels as a point of transaction.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

That goes doubly so for merchants who are in the business of ferrying perishable foods from stores to consumers’ homes. “We’re thrilled about the possibility of delivering new convenient options to our customers and about working with some transformative companies in this test,” Walmart said in a blog post.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Until Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, the logistics of alcohol delivery were mostly outside the grasp of what Amazon could efficiently cover. It could, for instance, allow consumers to “click and collect” beer at a local Whole Foods. Intoxicating liquor can’t be mailed in the U.S.,

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