Market Outlook 21 minutes PremiumSector Overview: North American Food Retailers — Cross-Channel Retailing Is Emerging as the Dominant Model Coresight Research January 31, 2019 Executive SummaryEach of our Sector Overview reports provides an essential briefing on a sector or market. This report focuses on U.S. grocery retailers: Despite ultralow food-price inflation, sales at grocery retailers and spending on food and beverages grew solidly across 2018, with each measure tracking at 3% or more year over year. Kroger’s partnership with Ocado is notable not only because it demonstrates the scale of Kroger’s commitment to grocery e-commerce, but also because it looks set to take Kroger into home delivery in a major way. In recent years, the U.S. online grocery market has been inching toward an in-store collection model. We think Amazon’s grocery banners, Amazon Go and Whole Foods Market, would need to shift their positioning on price and proposition in order to capture meaningful shares of full-basket grocery shops from mass-market grocery rivals. Our proprietary shopper profiles show that mass merchandisers’ shoppers skew younger and that Target attracts notably younger grocery shoppers. Amazon online grocery shoppers have a strikingly similar age and affluence profile to Whole Foods shoppers. Already a subscriber? Log in You are currently viewing a preview of this report. Please select an access option to view the full report. Hide Options - Show Options + Get unlimited access to all our research with one of our subscription plans. View Subscription Plans or Contact us to purchase this report. Contact us ✕ This document was generated for Other research you may be interested in: Holiday 2023: Exclusive Black Friday and Cyber Monday Survey FindingsGenerative AI in Retail and Healthcare: Insights Presented at NACDS TSE 2023RetailTech: Connected TV—Bringing the Store to the Comfort of Your SofaWeekly US and UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker 2023, Week 52: US Store Openings Pass 5,500