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...Instacart is a US grocery delivery platform. It has its own shopping app and delivery operation, and it also runs the back end of grocery chains’ own apps....
...We typically put much more time and effort into routine, small-value spending, such as in a grocery store, while accepting greater flexibility on higher value items of both investment and spending — such...
...Dollar Tree is increasing capital expenditure this fiscal year by about 60 per cent to $2bn, almost double what it spent in the year to February 2020....
...“The below-inflation rise in grocery spending shows that Brits are still trying their hardest to shave money off their weekly shop, as energy bills continue to rise,” said Esme Harwood, director at Barclays...
...In grocery, the gains in private label are pretty low relative to what they should be, given what we’re seeing [in the economy more broadly]....
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...“Either way, there is no question that shoppers will have to rein in discretionary expenditure this year.”...
...An enormous amount of capital expenditure is going into what they hope is a new boom in generative AI....
...“Suddenly those middle-class households that were otherwise protected, or at least more protected from price rises, are now in a situation where their main expenditure item is about to rocket,” says Rich...
...The company’s capital expenditure has rocketed from $16.8bn in 2019 to $40.1bn in 2020. As of the end of this year’s second quarter, Amazon said capex had reached $26.4bn....
...That bit of resilience was welcomed by investors, though Google is still trying to pull off the delicate balance of rising capital expenditure on data centres and cloud computing while cutting costs elsewhere...
...Founded in 2013, the company delivers food from more than 160,000 restaurant partners and 13,000 grocery sites....
...“Grocery is normally a very stable place . . . what we’ve seen in the past couple of years with this tremendous rise of plant-based is very unusual,” she said....
...Dickens expects most households to use more of their savings for debt repayments rather than spending, forecasting a 1.5 per cent contraction in household expenditure next year....
...Earnings The bargain retailer Dollar General is expected to post an earnings increase for its latest quarter as cash-strapped consumers seek lower prices for everyday items such as groceries and toilet paper...
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...Steiner said “the past year has further reinforced that demand for online grocery is here to stay”....
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