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Grocery delivery is shaping up to be an increasingly important aspect of retailers' business models.
- Delivery is one of the latest frontiers for the grocery business.
- Ecommerce insights firm $4 analyzed the latest big moves in terms of grocery delivery, as part of its July 2019 industry $4.
- The report makes it clear that global giants like Walmart, Aldi, and Carrefour have made delivery a major priority.
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Shopping for groceries online is a phenomenon that's only just started to take off.
A May 2019 $4 from Coresight Research found that 36.8% of shoppers in the United States purchased groceries online, up from 23.1% the previous year.
That means that grocery delivery is shaping up to be an increasingly important aspect of retailers' business models.
Ecommerce insights firm $4 published a July 2019 $4 on the state of the grocery business, singling out instances of innovative delivery solutions. They found a number of high tech partnerships in the works, from looping in a popular messaging app to relying on drones to fly food and essentials into an island in Tokyo Bay.
Here's a look at what strategies retailers around the globe adopted around grocery delivery in 2019: