Will the coronavirus pandemic lead to long-term changes in how we shop for food? To better understand the challenges facing grocery stores, WSJ’s Alexander Hotz spoke with an industry insider, a store owner and a Walmart executive.

The airline industry may be reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, but Amazon’s air cargo business has rapidly accelerated in recent months.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey told CNBC on Tuesday that the Amazon-owned grocery chain remains committed to reducing its food prices, building off a series of previous cuts.

The retail giant is opening 100 new distribution centers this month, according to Dave Clark, senior vice president of worldwide operations at Amazon.

British online supermarket Ocado Group's OCDO.L joint venture with Marks & Spencer MKS.L had a 52% sales surge in its third quarter as the COVID-19 pandemic generated huge demand for online deliveries.

As demand for online grocery services continues to accelerate, Swisslog, leading provider of best-in-class warehouse automation and software has partnered with H-E-B in San Antonio.

Amazon said Monday it will hire another 100,000 workers to meet surging demand in the covid-19 era, bolstering an already dramatic expansion of its workforce this year and underscoring the massive shifts in online spending the pandemic has helped fuel.

COVID has brought fresh impetus to Kroger's existing omni-channel retail thinking, says CEO Rodney McMullen.

Funding for AI has become a key component of its transformation plans over the last few years.

Pickup is the fastest-growing component of Albertsons’ e-commerce operations, and the grocer is focused on expanding the service to more stores.

Consumers Give Food, Grocery Industries Top Scores

Only around 25% of companies get through the AI planning stage in the first year, experts say. Firms accept that preparing and strategizing for implementing AI projects can be a multi-year journey, and needs to be faster.

Every organization requires Artificial Intelligence to succeed. AI provides business value but doesn’t solve the organizational problems magically.

Dr Vaggelis Giannikas, Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath, discusses the race for the ‘way-too-fast’ delivery.

Accenture’s Maddie Walker and Dan Farrell explain how COVID-19 will re-define the use of robotics.

COVID-19 has required nearly all marketers to rapidly adapt their strategies and navigate unchartered territory. Some of these shifts will be here to stay even after recovery efforts set in.

There are technologies and integrations available that are able to help retailers adapt and even improve operations in this changing landscape.

After rapidly pivoting to scale ship-to-home, curbside pickup, and final-mile delivery to preserve as much pre-pandemic revenue as possible, the sustainability of these fulfillment and delivery services is reaching an inflection point.

Automation has gained increased attention amid the great social distancing experiment sparked by COVID-19. But it’s too early to say whether the pandemic will expedite automation across all industries.