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The following retailers have all either closed or announced plans to close large numbers of retail locations, since 2010, during a time period labelled a "retail apocalypse" by media, accelerated by both the increase in online shopping and then by the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Venture capitalists have invested billions of dollars in fast grocery delivery services such as Turkey's Getir and Germany's Gorillas and Flink, in a race to meet soaring demand after lockdowns ...
Supermarkets began opening dark stores to assist with distribution in geographical areas where there was a high demand for online delivery. [3] Retail companies with dark stores usually operate fleets of light trucks to deliver orders made online, particularly to inner urban areas, avoiding disruptions to offline store operations.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The city of Rotterdam is to put a one-year freeze on the introduction of any more "dark stores" - small distribution centres in the city used as hubs for on-demand grocery ...
Gorillas was a German ultrafast grocery delivery company which used dark stores between its founding in 2020 and its end in May 2024. [3] Users could order grocery products through the Gorillas app. In December 2022, the company was acquired by Getir. [4] [1] As of July 2023, it operates in around 35 cities from roughly 130 locations in four ...
Supermarkets are making a “mistake” by scrapping services like fresh food counters and underestimating discounters like Aldi, analysts have warned as Tesco becomes the latest chain to announce ...
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Ames Department Stores, Inc., was an American chain of discount stores based in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, United States.The company was founded in 1958 with a store in Southbridge, Massachusetts, and at its peak operated 700 stores in 20 states, including the Northeast, Upper South, Midwest, and the District of Columbia, making it the fourth-largest discount retailer in the country.