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Food Company Empire Co., Ltd. Grocery company Empire is pausing the opening of its fourth customer fulfilment centre in Vancouver, citing that Canada's grocery e-commerce market is smaller than the company anticipated when it launched its online delivery platform Voilà in 2020. Empire's president and CEO, Michael Medline, said the company is losing more money than it originally estimated when it opened its first three warehouses in the Greater Toronto and Montreal areas and Rocky View County, Alberta. “This actually masks the strength of our brick-and-mortar business,” he told analysts on the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday. Medline said…

Grocery company Empire is pausing the opening of its fourth customer fulfilment centre in Vancouver, citing that Canada's grocery e-commerce market is smaller than the company anticipated when it launched its online delivery platform Voilà in 2020. Empire's president and CEO, Michael Medline, said the company is losing more money than it originally estimated when it opened its first three warehouses in the Greater Toronto and Montreal areas and Rocky View County, Alberta. “This actually masks the strength of our brick-and-mortar business,” he told analysts on the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday. Medline said Empire had planned to open…

More than 100 homes are being demolished in unincorporated areas of Bloomington, California, to make way for an Inland Empire warehouse. Developer Howard Industrial Partners is building a 213-acre warehouse project near homes and schools. Robert Gautier/Los Angeles Times/TNS LOS ANGELES — When Benjamin and Christine Granillo bought 2.25 acres in San Bernardino County 40 years ago, they built their home with their own hands and surrounded it with a lush grove of avocado, orange and lemon trees.”We thought we'd live here our whole lives,” Christine Granillo, 77, said as she trimmed the tree on a recent afternoon.But the unincorporated…

The marketing team at Hill Street retailer Jack Murphy Jewellers is celebrating after winning the Retail & E-Commerce award at the recent 2024 Remarkable Marketing Awards. Family-run Jack Murphy Jewellers has been a retail staple in Newry town centre for over 50 years and the company’s Marketing Manager, Charlotte McAteer, and Marketing Executive, Tara O’Hanlon, entered the awards to showcase their Welded Forever Bracelet experience, which was then the first of its kind in Newry. Speaking about the bracelet, which launched in June 2023 as part of a series of in-store pop-up events, Charlotte explains: “Our Welded Forever Bracelet became…

With 97 percent of businesses adopting big data and AI strategies, it's clear that data is the key to innovation and growth. Good data can diagnose problems while uncovering hidden strengths. It can help you develop short-term and long-term goals, which in turn can help you develop strategies to achieve them. Today, organizations have access to more data than ever before, and recent advances in artificial intelligence are breaking down barriers to data collection and analysis. Yet, less than a quarter of executives say they have developed a data-driven enterprise, revealing a veritable gold mine of untapped potential. The e-commerce…

Compass LexeconThe economic intelligence specialist was commissioned by Amazon to study French people's perceptions of the contribution of e-commerce to their overall shopping experience, as well as its effectiveness in terms of fighting inflation and protecting purchasing power. To our knowledge, it is the first study of this kind to be carried out in France.Antoine Victoria, Vice President of Compass Lexécon “Our study, based on a questionnaire survey and econometric modelling, is unprecedented in its objectives and methodology and shows that e-commerce has a positive impact on the overall shopping experience of the French, who particularly value the wide choice,…

Empire Corp., parent of grocer Sobeys, is slowing the pace of its e-commerce expansion and ending an exclusive partnership with technology provider Ocado Group as it seeks to improve the profitability of its online service, Voilà.The company is delaying the opening of a fourth distribution centre in Vancouver, which was planned to serve Voilà customers in the region, and Empire will focus on improving the performance of its three other distribution centres in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta, President and CEO Michael Medline said in a statement Thursday.Voila continues to report sales growth, up 17.3% on a same-store basis in the…

Scotch & Soda's new e-commerce licensee is United Legwear & Apparel Europe BV, which will take over management of Scotch & Soda's European Internet operations, according to a news release issued by Blue Star Alliance. The rights to the brand remain held by Blue Star Alliance, which is reviving Scotch & Soda in 2023. As part of its efforts to “strengthen key retail markets and drive digital growth quickly and strategically”, the American company has appointed United Legwear & Apparel Europe as the licensee for its e-commerce business. Blue Star Alliance said United Legwear & Apparel Europe is a reliable…

E-commerce platform BigCommerce has been building a strong presence in the French market since 2021. The company streamlined its operations in December 2023 to become more agile and position itself for long-term success. This strategic move allows BigCommerce to continue investing in the French market, where demand for innovative e-commerce solutions is rife. To support the growth ambitions of brands and their partners, Aurélien Roessner has joined the EMEA team, bringing with him extensive experience working in BigCommerce APAC. Based in London since March, Aurélien now oversees both partnerships and business development for BigCommerce in France. The importance of BigCommerce…

Chinese shoppers purchase items online in Zhoushan city, east China's Zhejiang province, June 18, 2024.Photo | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesChina's annual mid-June 2020 e-commerce festival saw its first decline in sales in eight years, according to retail data provider Xintun, showing that consumption recovery in the world's second-largest economy remains fairly slow.Sintung estimated that companies' gross merchandise volume (GMV), or sales, during the shopping festival fell 7 percent from last year to 742.8 billion yuan ($102.3 billion).Sintung told CNBC that this is the first time it has seen a decline in sales since it began monitoring the event in…