You may not have heard of the grocery store chain Seafood City, but it’s safe to say it’s a pretty big deal. The California-based business is a Filipino supermarket, with locations in U.S. west coastal states, including its home state of California, along with Hawaii, Nevada and Washington. …
Grocery data startup Basket is among the companies trying to help traditional brick-and-mortar grocery stores succeed against alternative players such as Amazon and Walmart. Basket's new software database Insights helps manufacturers like Chloe's Fruit stay competitive, and will eventually roll out to stores, too. …
Walmart Canada announced today that select regions in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Winnipeg will be eligible for same-day grocery delivery through Instacart, a North American leader in online groceries. The service is available in the GTA today, followed by Winnipeg on September 27 as part of a pilot program between the two companies. …
The company agreed to purchase Cornershop, which also offers a shopping-delivery service in Chile, for $225 million. Walmart will subsequently sell Cornershop’s operations in Mexico to its local subsidiary, Walmex, at a yet-to-be-determined price. The transaction is expected to close this year. …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is expanding its use of a notice-based process for approving fruits and vegetables for importation into the United States. This will help APHIS achieve USDA’s goal of reducing regulations by eliminating the need for rulemaking to approve fruits and vegetables for import. …
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