Ocado has always argued that its model, which generates economies of scale as orders are fulfilled in its huge robotic warehouses, is more profitable than supermarket employees plucking flour and toilet paper from shelves. The evidence supports that, with Ebitda (a measure of profit) in retail almost doubling to 46 million pounds ($58 million). But Ocado’s shortage of capacity prevented it from fully capturing demand, which was worth five times more in terms of revenue at the peak of the crisis.

Retailers need to stop expecting business to return to “normal.” There’s no going back to how it was anytime soon. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis, brick-and-mortar retailers had been fighting a fierce battle against Amazon and other e-commerce players. Those challenges have now accelerated at staggering speed.

Collaboration will integrate C.H. Robinson’s Navisphere® and Microsoft Azure cloud technologies to make real-time visibility possible in supply chains and accelerate innovation in transportation

In his new role, Haixun will lead the team that fine-tunes the artificial intelligence technology and machine learning models that power our four-sided marketplace.

Retailers often use the more lucrative in-store sales to subsidize hefty e-commerce costs, ranging from marketing to fulfillment and shipping. Companies don't usually break out those expenses, which of late have been overshadowed by massive write-downs for unsold inventory and lower online profits.

Marina Square Shopping Mall -- nestled among luxury hotels and popular tourist attractions in central Singapore -- is taking more than 30 of its tenants online with Lazada, the Southeast Asian unit of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. It’s the first shopping center in the city-state to create a mini virtual replica of its physical mall.

Ocado has always argued that its model, which generates economies of scale as orders are fulfilled in its huge robotic warehouses, is more profitable than supermarket employees plucking flour and toilet paper from shelves. The evidence supports that, with Ebitda (a measure of profit) in retail almost doubling to 46 million pounds ($58 million). But Ocado’s shortage of capacity prevented it from fully capturing demand, which was worth five times more in terms of revenue at the peak of the crisis.

Amazon will be restricting its storage capacities in warehouses as the coronavirus continues to surge and the holidays are still ahead, a company blog post states.

A new report from Adobe, found that compared to pre-pandemic sales for the period starting March 1, online transactions were $77 billion higher than expected, with ecommerce levels tracking higher than holiday shopping levels (November and December). The first six months of 2020 have driven $368.8 billion in online spend.

Ocado has 1 million customers waiting to join its online grocery service after struggling to cope with a surge in demand during the coronavirus pandemic.

Amazon Prime, with its approximately 150 million members worldwide, is going to be nearly impossible to unseat as the leader. However, Walmart does have one key advantage over Amazon, and it's leveraging it in Walmart+.

Amazon leads in customer satisfaction among online grocery shoppers, while traditional supermarkets have seen the biggest gain in online shopping use versus a year ago, according to the 2020 U.S. Online & In-Store Grocery Shopping Study from Retail Feedback Group (RFG).

An article published by McKinsey & Company before coronavirus became pandemic outlined the trend and mentioned the 3.5% of grocery sales that was online would rise to 10% by 2020. What a difference a few months can make.

The world's largest online retailer ordered more than 2,200 heavy-duty Utilimaster "walk-in" delivery trucks from Shyft Group <SHYF.O>, a Michigan-based specialty vehicle company, an Amazon spokeswoman told Reuters. The company declined to say how many of the vehicles have been sent to Amazon delivery contractors, or where they would be deployed.