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How the Grocery Industry is Adapting to the Shifting Customer Landscape

If you’ve ordered your groceries online or picked them up without setting foot inside the store sometime in the past year or two, you are part of a growing trend in shopping that isn’t slowing down anytime soon. With a shift in using automation, changing fulfillment operations, and even commerce platforms and mobile solutions,…

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If you’ve ordered your groceries online or picked them up without setting foot inside the store sometime in the past year or two, you are part of a growing trend in shopping that isn’t slowing down anytime soon. With a shift in using automation, changing fulfillment operations, and even commerce platforms and mobile solutions, leaders from the entire grocery ecosystem are coming together this week for GroceryShop 2021.

MarketScale asked Tom Hatton, VP of Sales for Data Weave North America, Vince Martinelli, Head of Product & Marketing, RightHand Robotics, and Julie Companey, Director of Client Strategy, Valassis to present their take on where the industry is headed in this increasingly digital world, starting with what to expect to see at GroceryShop ’21.

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