King Kullen: why the first US supermarket was at the forefront of global distribution

Italian, French and British retailers have drawn inspiration and lessons from their American counterparts. And the chain that opened its first supermarket 96 years ago is still family-owned: in June, King Kullen appointed its first female president, Tracey Cullen, the founder’s great-granddaughter

Quick Take — Albertsons launches the Safeway shopping plugin powered by ChatGPT

A new tool allows shoppers at Safeway, a brand within the group, to create shopping lists, edit their trolleys, find savings and more… 

The Safeway plugin, which went live this week, offers shoppers a conversational way to reorder regulars, search for offers, plan meals or shop directly from a recipe, photo or list. Customers type their requests in plain language, and the plugin matches them to Safeway products before routing them through the shopping basket and checkout. The plugin also allows customers to compare, adjust or remove items from their basket before the Safeway platform takes over at the checkout…

At one point, Safeway had Dominick’s among its brands.

New Princes will buy Carrefour Italia supermarkets: the difference between cheer and reality

One cannot improvise as a retailer and, above all, it is not always the case that aggregating several realities, with different cultures, brings strength: the acquisition of Newlat reminds me of the events of Standa and those of Auchan-Conad, but also of the Carrefour- Promodes merger or the events of Walgreens with Boots. Not to mention the lesson of the bankruptcy of Sears or that of the closure of Dominick’s for manifest incompetence