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1. Instacart And Ace Hardware Bring The Local Hardware Store To Your Door In As Fast As One Hour 5/14/2026

   Instacart (NASDAQ: CART), the leading grocery technology company in North America, and Ace Hardware, the world's largest hardware cooperative, today announced a new partnership that brings Ace's trusted assortment of home preservation essentials, tools, grilling and barbeque must-haves, and lawn and garden supplies directly to customers' doorsteps in as fast as one hour.

2. Whole Foods Market To Bring Its Daily Shop Concept To Three New U.S. Markets 5/13/2026

   Whole Foods Market announced its smaller format store concept, Whole Foods Market Daily Shop, will open in Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia over the next two years, continuing the brand’s expansion of the format into dense urban neighborhoods.

3. MC Advances Supply Chain Transformation With Blue Yonder Cognitive Solutions 5/13/2026

   MC, the retail division of Sonae and a leading player in Portugal’s grocery market and health, wellness, and beauty retail across the Iberian Peninsula, has selected Blue Yonder Cognitive Solutions for Allocation and Replenishment to advance its supply chain transformation.

4. Amazon Rolls Out Amazon Now To Dozens Of Cities Across The U.S., Providing 30-Minute Delivery To Millions Of Customers 5/12/2026

   Amazon.com, Inc. today announced the rollout of its ultra-fast delivery service Amazon Now to dozens of cities and millions of customers across the U.S. Amazon Now, which provides thousands of fresh groceries, everyday household essentials, and locally relevant items in about 30 minutes or less, is now widely available in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, and is rapidly expanding in dozens more cities including Austin, Houston, Minneapolis, Orlando, Phoenix, Denver, and Oklahoma City.

5. Coop Partners With ZetaDisplay To Roll Out Advanced In-Store Retail Media Network Across Norway 5/11/2026

   Coop Norway and ZetaDisplay have entered the next phase of a strategic agreement after the successful roll out of a pilot earlier last year. The next phase includes an advanced in-store retail media network across its nationwide store portfolio.

6. Giant Eagle Taps Ibotta As Its Exclusive Digital Promotions Partner In Support Of Its 'Because It Matters' Value Strategy 5/6/2026

   Ibotta, North America’s leading digital promotions network, today announced a landmark exclusive partnership with Giant Eagle, Inc., one of the nation’s largest multi-format food and pharmacy retailers.

7. Vusion And StrongPoint Chosen By Estonian Grocery Retailer Coop For The Digitalization Of Their Stores 5/5/2026

   The Estonian grocery retailer Coop has chosen Vusion, the global leader in AI-powered solutions for physical retail, and StrongPoint, a grocery technology provider, for the digitalization of their stores.

8. Stater Bros. Markets Signs New Agreement With NCR Voyix To Modernize POS And Payments On The Voyix Commerce Platform 5/4/2026

   NCR Voyix, a platform‑powered leader in unified commerce for shopping and dining, today announced a new agreement with Stater Bros. Markets (“Stater Bros.”), a leading supermarket chain in California.

9. Ahold Delhaize USA Expands Digital Commerce Capabilities With SmartCommerce Click2Cart® 4/28/2026

   Leading grocery retail group Ahold Delhaize USA has announced a partnership with SmartCommerce to expand Click2Cart across its five omnichannel U.S. grocery brands.

10. FairPrice Group To Bring Heartland Grocery Runs Into The Future With Island-Wide Expansion Of Store Of Tomorrow Programme 4/23/2026

    FairPrice Group (FPG) announced today that it will roll out digital innovation built with Google Cloud AI for both customers and staff to supermarkets across its network by end-2026.