Supermarket & Retail News April 2021

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE to Open 1st Fresh Amazon to Open 1st Fresh in ………………….…...1 Grocery Store in New York

Wakefern Picks Huge for Digital • Amazon is working on its second proposed Brand Strategy Account ……………………….....1 location in the Northeast, this time in Plainview, ShopRite Employees Earn NY. Spots on Cheerios Boxes ………...……………...2 • Amazon announced in November that it would be Annual Meat Conference opening an store in a shuttered Reveals Top 10 Trends ……………...……..…....2 in Woodland Park, NJ. An official Meet the Vertical Automated Grocery Store ...... 2 opening date has not yet been announced. Plans Micro-Fulfillment Click Here for the Full Article Center to Fuel Online Grocery ……....….……....3

Grocery Shoppers Fix on Value Despite Waning COVID-19 Concerns …………….….…..3 Wakefern Picks Huge for Digital Brand Strategy Account

“Wakefern’s mission around nurturing and • Wakefern Food Corp, a cooperative of grocery sustaining healthy communities was exactly stores including brands such as ShopRite, Price what we believe as an organization. They Rite, , Fairway and Gourmet wanted to create an omnichannel user Garage, has selected Huge as its digital branding experience that was people-focused, so it was pretty simple to say, ‘we’re in.’” agency of record. • Matt Weiss Huge will help Wakefern evolve its omnichannel President of Huge customer experience and build out its digital branding as more grocery shopping goes online. Click Here for the Full Article & Page 2 Retail News

ShopRite Employees Earn Annual Meat Conference Spots on Cheerios Boxes Reveals Top 10 Trends

• As part of an annual tradition of • Retailers and suppliers looking to build on recognizing their hunger-fighting efforts, 2020’s spectacular meat sales should be photos of 100 ShopRite associates are mindful of the top 10 Power of Meat trends appearing on limited-edition Cheerios in the year ahead. boxes during March and April. • 1—The pandemic showed us just how • With this year’s contest theme, “Ending popular meat and poultry still are. With Hunger Together,” serving as backdrop, consumers cooking at home during the ShopRite associates came together during pandemic, meat department dollars Hunger Action Month in September to increased 19.2% and volume 11%. collect donations at checkout and in-store • 2—The pandemic brought more home- in the fight against hunger. cooked meals with meat, with the • This year, their fundraising efforts raised shopper’s eye turning to convenience and $1 million for regional food banks. variety. Click Here for the Full Article Click Here for the Full Article

Meet the Vertical Automated Grocery Store

• In addition to pricey robotics and other hardware, real estate costs can balloon into the millions of dollars in urban neighborhoods marking building a fully automated omnichannel grocery store prohibitively expensive. • Lincoln Cavalieri wants to build vertically. He’s the co-founder of Urbx, a startup that’s planning to build a grocery store with an automated fulfillment system attached to it that reaches up to 150 feet high and can squeeze into as little as 1,800 square feet of space. • The first of these stores is slated to be built in Boston by the end of next year. Click Here for the Full Article Supermarket & Page 3 Retail News

H Mart Plans Micro-Fulfillment Center to Fuel Online Grocery

• Asian-American supermarket chain H Mart has tapped robotics specialist AutoStore to power a micro-fulfillment center (MFC) to process online grocery orders. • Including AutoStore’s robotics and Warehouse Management System technologies, the MFC solution is designed to boost fulfillment efficiency for a range of packaged groceries plus fresh and frozen products. Click Here for the Full Article

Grocery shoppers fix on value despite waning COVID-19 concerns

• U.S. consumers are feeling more confident as the nation starts to climb out of the COVID-19 pandemic, but elevated food pricing has grocery shoppers opting for value, the latest dunnhumby Consumer Pulse Survey finds. • Dunnhumby said value seeking consumers represent about 70% of the U.S. shopper base versus just 13% for quality-seeking consumers, who mainly shop at high-quality stores and are willing to pay more for higher quality. Click Here for the Full Article

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