Online Grocery

Grocery and recipe delivery service Hungryroot has a revolutionary method for collecting first-party data from its subscribers. Wait for it … it asks them directly.

Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. The Growthery Category Online grocery sales ticked down 1% in August compared to a year ago, according to an annual tracker from Brick Meets Click. But there’s a lot going on in that 1%. The online grocery opportunity is still big, and some of […]

Instacart just took its first steps beyond owned-and-operated Instacart media with the launch of a new retail media offering that serves ads on grocers’ sites and apps. The new retail advertising product, called Carrot Ads, is part of a broader ecommerce offering Instacart introduced on Wednesday, which also includes Carrot Warehouses, a warehousing and fulfillment service, and an advertising analytics product dubbed Carrot Insights.

The country’s largest grocers are adapting to new shopping habits with a hybrid model that combines their brick-and-mortar footprint with online advertising platforms. Although Amazon paved the way with its ad platform and 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods, grocery giants, including Kroger and Walmart, are also investing heavily in sponsored search and programmatic. And now […]

Driscoll’s, the century-old fresh fruit company, is no stranger to change. But the transition to online ordering is a tricky one for the brand. Driscoll’s works with geneticists and fruit growers to hone the tastiest berry varieties, and its sales and marketing arm brings the fruit to market. But its marketing and seed-editing machine is […]