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Food Lion adds the Endless Aisle to its web site

Supermarket chain Food Lion is adding e-commerce to its non-transactional web site with Nexpansion’s Endless Aisle technology. The Endless Aisle offers 30,000 products beyond those sold in Food Lion stores.

Posted 05/05/2003Kurt PetersPost a comment

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How Much Is That Merger in the Petstore.com Window?

E-retail's long-forecast category-by-category consolidation continued today with the announcement that Pets.com will acquire Petstore.com. In connection with the transaction, Pets.com will receive a $3 million cash investment and will issue about 5.8 million shares of its common stock and approximately 850,000 shares of a redeemable non-voting, non-convertible series A preferred stock. Subtracting the $3 million investment from Petstore...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

Food/Drug

More so than in most categories of online retailing, e-retailers in the food-and-drug category must offer something extra special to lure shoppers from the comfort and familiarity of shopping in their local groceries and pharmacies. It’s a challenge that the three online retailers in this year’s Best of the Web food-and-drug category—FreshDirect, Omaha Steaks and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters—meet head-on.

Posted 11/29/2006Internet RetailerPost a comment

In Full Swing

Internet Retailer presents a preview of its ranking of the Top 300 online retailers, with analysis of market trends

Posted 06/03/2004Internet RetailerPost a comment

Double Duty

CoolSavings may be best known for its online coupons. What it’s really delivering is customer data about multi-channel shopping behavior.

Posted 04/02/2004Internet RetailerPost a comment

Food & Drug: Brand and infrastructure go hand-in-hand

Retailers early on pegged food and drug purchases as likely candidates to succeed on the web. The failure of many of the web pioneers is no black mark against the concept; rather, it reflects flawed business plans of companies that thought they could create a national fulfillment infrastructure at the same time they were creating a national brand. Today, the infrastructure and brand are the reason that most of the retailers in the Food and Drug category of Internet Retailer`s Best of the Web are succeeding. Best of the Web in Food and Drug: Albertsons, Drugstore.com, Harry and David, Omaha Steaks, Safeway, Starbucks

Posted 11/25/2002Internet RetailerPost a comment

Anything You Want

Stores are taking the Alice’s Restaurant approach to retailing, using web-enabled kiosks to present a broader assortment of goods.

Posted 10/01/2002Internet RetailerPost a comment

The State of the Industry: The Next Evolution

A new emphasis on profitability—measured both in the web channel and in the web as an influencer of offline purchases—characterizes the next stage of e-retailing.

Posted 08/12/2002Internet RetailerPost a comment