Walmart Is Becoming More Than a Supermarket — And That Should Worry Every Grocery Competitor
Walmart’s biggest advantage may no longer be its size. It is the fact that groceries are only one part of the shopping relationship it has...
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Kroger Has a Foot-Traffic Problem — Or Does It? The Numbers Tell Two Different Stories
America’s supermarket giant says more customers are coming through its doors. Analyst data suggests the opposite. Behind the disagreement is a much bigger question: are...
Two Cases. Two Minutes. One Person: Delivering 1,000 Liters of Drinking Water an Hour
Portable Swedish water system keeps soldiers, firefighters and communities supplied when normal water supplies fail STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 19, 2026 – When a wildfire cuts...
Mercadona Has a Lidl Problem in Portugal — and the Next Battle Is Just Beginning
Spain’s Mercadona has built a powerful position in Portugal, but the latest figures suggest that Lidl is proving much harder to catch than expected. The...
America’s Supermarkets Are Closing Stores — While Buying More Supermarkets
The US grocery industry is entering a strange new phase: retailers are getting bigger through acquisitions while becoming smaller on the ground. Something unusual is...
Mercadona’s 70 Robots: Is This the Supermarket Warehouse of the Future?
Spain’s supermarket giant is betting €54 million on automation. The bigger question is whether robots can finally solve one of grocery retail’s biggest problems: making...
The New Supermarket Shelf Is Invisible — And AI Decides What Goes on It
The next battle between supermarkets and brands may not be fought in the aisles. It may be fought inside the answers shoppers receive from AI....
The CMA Has Drawn a Line Under Britain’s Supermarket Past
Why Britain’s competition watchdog believes Aldi and Lidl have outgrown the rules that once made them different For years, Britain had a simple distinction in...
Lidl’s Biggest Problem May Not Be Prices — It’s Space
The discounter is still expanding fast. But Britain’s supermarket property battle is changing Lidl has spent years fighting for one thing above almost everything else:...
Aldi and Lidl: The Discounters Have Become Too Big for the Old Rules
The UK’s supermarket rulebook is finally catching up with the discount revolution For years, Aldi and Lidl were the outsiders of British grocery retail. They...