Retail Radar: Instacart Personalizes; Amazon Readies for Prime Time

Path to Purchase Institute members have access to regularly updated retailer profiles, which can be found here. Recent updates include Amazon's plans for Prime Day 2023, and Dollar General's  wellness offerings in store. 

Dollar General Thinks Healthy

The discount retailer continues to focus on wellness by adding produce to nearly 3,900 locations (and counting) and adding more health SKUs.

ShopRite Adds Carts

A couple New Jersey and New York ShopRite stores are adding updated versions of Instacart’s Caper Carts, with a streamlined format and a greater capacity.

Instacart Gets Personal

The platform’s order management system, FoodStorm, makes personalized orders easier for customers to place and retailers to fulfill.

Albertsons Seeks Standards

The grocer is calling for standardization among retail media networks to improve communication among advertisers, agencies and retailers. Its retail media arm is also growing its partnership with Omnicom Media Group to create a multi-party clean room.

Amazon Readies for Prime Time

New for 2023: The commerce giant is offering Prime members the opportunity to sign up for invite-only deals. Other retailers – including Target, Best Buy and Walmart – are planning their own mid-July sales.