Singapore's CapitaLand has unveiled plans to introduce two platforms offering e-commerce and food delivery services. The launch aims to boost sales of retailers operating in its shopping malls and tap digital channels to reach the mall operator's loyalty programme members. 

Local developer Wesbild’s development application for 8188 Manitoba Street — just south of Marine Drive — will redevelop existing warehouse structures with 60,000 sq ft of floor area into two new six-storey industrial buildings, with a combined total floor area of about 340,000 sq ft. The project’s design firm is MGBA Architecture.

This includes about 230,000 sq ft of industrial space on the lower levels, including over 50,000 sq ft of warehouse space on the ground level.

Robots are now sharing streets and sidewalks in Frisco with cars and pedestrians, delivering food and groceries to those who are quarantining at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

“If we were to include that third-party in our e-commerce number, that mid-60% comp number would be slightly over 100%. So we’ve seen big strength in driving the business that way,” he noted. “Overall, our e-comm sites have worked pretty smoothly during the quarter, despite dramatic volume increases. As well, we were able to improve on delivery times throughout the quarter as we adjusted to the ramped-up order volumes.”

AliExpress, the cross-border e-commerce business of Alibaba Group Holding, aims to enlist more than 100,000 online influencers from around the world this year, helping create original content designed to attract and engage more users to the platform.

This social commerce strategy, which has proven successful in China, is being introduced overseas via AliExpress Connect, a new part of Alibaba’s English-language global business-to-consumer marketplace.

Goodfood a leading online grocery company in Canada, announced today it has signed a lease for its second fulfillment centre in the GTA. This new 200,000 square-foot facility will be a state of the art, leading online grocery delivery facility and expand Goodfood’s operating footprint to six sites from Coast-to-Coast. The Company’s 550,000 square feet of fulfilment centers extend its position as the leading national purpose-built grocery delivery infrastructure in terms of square footage. The fulfilment centre is currently under construction and should be operational by the end of summer 2021 and create over 2,000 jobs at full capacity.

The research showed that active households in May placed an average of 1.7 online grocery orders for either delivery or pickup, up from 1.6 online orders in April, and the average order value climbed nearly 6% to $90 in May, an increase of almost $5 compared to April. 

Here’s what’s been lost—and what could be gained—in the new world order.

Based on an internal organizational chart seen by Business Insider, Clark's responsibilities now include: compliance and product safety, marketing, physical stores (including Whole Foods), shipping and delivery, warehouse management and worker safety, robotics (including Kiva and drones), Prime membership, supply-chain management, sustainability, and Amazon Fresh food delivery.

Online food ordering has been soaring the last two months all across Europe. Customers aren’t just dabbling in grocery delivery from online supermarkets – they are sampling direct-to-consumer meal kits and prepared meals more than ever before too.

While some food delivery companies are having turbulent times, the others are booming and experiencing the unprecedented number of orders. With this in mind, we have compiled this list of 10 fast-growing European startups focusing on ready-made food delivery. Maybe some are even running in your city.

Consultants McKinsey noted that some companies were seeing spikes as high as 700%. Instead of making weekly visits to a supermarket, many consumers are now buying food online. Businesses with fast and efficient ways to fulfill online orders will win out.

Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has expanded its logistics network to support growth in online consumption in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and as more traditional merchants move online.

The Beijing-based company has added three more automated Asia No. 1 logistics parks in Langfang, Hebei province, Dezhou, Shandong province and Zhengzhou, Henan province to increase its same or next day delivery service coverage for lower-tier cities ahead of China’s midyear shopping festival. This brings JD’s total number of automated parks to 28.

PepsiCo's new direct-to-consumer sites could mark a significant turning point for the retail grocery industry. The corporation studied the increased demand for products amid the coronavirus pandemic and witnessed shoppers’ frustrations with empty aisles in supermarkets and other grocery stores.

The new automated warehouse, which uses Ocado’s technology, is in Fleury-Mérogis, in southern Paris. The warehouse and delivery are managed by Casino’s own subsidiary, O'logistique. To access the new service shoppers use a dedicated website, courses.monoprix.fr, which, according to trade publication Lineaires, provides subtly different information and product photos versus the retailer’s main web site.

To better understand this new e-commerce future and what retailers need to do to prepare for it, Grocery Dive spoke with several experts, including former executives with Amazon and Target. Here are six of their top strategies.

The 39-year-old now runs Shopify, the US$83-billion company he built after the dotcom crash and the only employer he has ever had. Lutke set it up in 2006 with help from friends Scott Lake and Daniel Weinand after they realized the software he had built to sell snowboards online was more valuable than the store itself.

Walmart's US ecommerce sales are expected to rise 44.2% to $41.01 billion in 2020, a significant bump from 2019’s stellar 36.8% growth—and an increase from the January 2020 estimate of 27.0%.

Fashion is having its moment in the metaverse.

A riot of luxury labels, music, and games are vying for attention in the virtual world. And as physical events and the entertainment industry that depends on them shuts down, virtual things have come to epitomize the popular culture of the pandemic.

It’s creating an environment where imagination and technical ability, not wealth, are the only barriers to accumulating the status symbols that only money and fame could buy.

The executive at the centre of Marks & Spencer's biggest strategic gamble for decades has written to staff to warn that all eyes will be on the retailer's new venture with Ocado which launches in 100 days.

After losing some online shoppers to rivals during the pandemic, the retail giant is turning back to faster shipping times and big sales.

As millions more Americans turned to online shopping during the pandemic, Amazon struggled to keep up with the demand, and its rivals pounced. Target’s online sales shot up 141 percent last quarter, while Walmart’s rose 74 percent. Etsy’s were up almost 80 percent in April.

Now Amazon is saying enough is enough.