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. This report is for paying subscribers only. Already a paying subscriber? Please log in to see the entire report.If you wish to learn more about our subscription plans and become a paying subscriber, click here. This document was generated for Other research you may be interested in: December 2023 US Housing Market Indicators: Positive Shifts To Start the New YearRetail Shrink and ORC: Losing Inventory, Losing Customers—US Consumers’ Response to TheftEarnings Insights 1Q23, Week 5: Burlington, Deckers, Dick’s and Ulta Post Strong Results; Big Lots, Foot Locker, Kohl’s and Others See Sales DeclineWeekly US and UK Store Openings and Closures Tracker 2024, Week 1: Rothy’s Plans To Open 10 US Stores