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E-commerce remains food for thought for big chain grocers

Big chain grocers ignore e-commerce at their own risk. Food retailers in the Top 500 Guide’s food and drug segment increased their accumulated sales by 12% to $2.37 billion in 2007, but big chains such as The Kroger Co. are conspicuous by their absence.

Posted 09/10/2008Mark BrohanPost a comment

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Safeway.com grows by nearly 33% in 2007

Safeway.com reports web sales of $163 million for 2007, a 32.5% increase compared with $123 million in 2006.

Posted 02/27/2008Mark BrohanPost a comment

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Safeway goes grocery shopping

Safeway is purchasing the remaining shares of GroceryWorks and making the e-commerce unit a wholly owned subsidiary. However, it isn’t giving up many details about the timing of the transaction and what future plans it has in mind for the online grocer.

Posted 10/04/2006Mark BrohanPost a comment

Related Searches:Safeway Ecommerce | Groceryworks

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MotoSport hires Safeway.com’s Joe Devine as new CTO

Joe Devine, former CTO of Safeway.com, has been named vice president and chief technology officer of MotoSport Outlet Inc. Devine left Safeway on Friday.

Posted 09/26/2005Kurt PetersPost a comment

/ Marketing

Safeway.com boosts site search cross-sells with contextual ads

When customers search for Rice Krispies on Safeway.com, the results page shows the cereal in several box sizes and product variations, like snack bars, to drive cross-selling. Now Safeway is planning to also run contextual ads to further drive sales.

Posted 02/05/2004Paul DemeryPost a comment

/ Technology

Safeway finds building efficiency on the web

Use of a web-based building project management system from Autodesk Inc. has reduced hard-copy plan distribution costs by 50% and shortened the design phase of a chainwide remodeling program by a third, The U.K.’s Safeway Stores plc reports.

Posted 11/18/2002Kurt PetersPost a comment

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Staples, Safeway to implement web-based store sign program

Staples will produce store signage using Web dSign Shop technology from AccessVia which allows retailers to maintain information in a single location on a server on the Internet or a corporate intranet for all store promotional signs and shelf labels.

Posted 06/25/2002Kurt PetersPost a comment

Safeway.com cuts mid-week delivery fees in Oregon

Safeway.com is offering reduced delivery charges of $4.95 for mid-week days in the Portland area, the opposite of what it is charging in San Francisco and Sacramento.

Posted 05/20/2002Kurt PetersPost a comment