Market Overviews 21 minutesSector Overview: North American Food Retailers — Cross-Channel Retailing Is Emerging as the Dominant Model Author By Coresight Research January 31, 2019 0 likes1,250 view Key PointsEach 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. This report is for paid subscribers only. Learn more about subscriptions here. Other research you may be interested in: Other research you may be interested in: