Foodservice Solutions® Grocerant Guru® stated
‘United States grocery retailers will soon be facing the same tripod of competition
that has been more than troublesome for legacy grocery retailers. That tripod of competition consists of low
cost grocers Aldi, Lidl, and Online Grocery shopping (Amazon).”
Today in the United States low cost
grocery Aldi has over 1,685 stores
open with another 300
scheduled to open by 2018. Lidl has
opened a U.S.
headquarters
and is building out several distribution centers now and is scheduled to have
stores open by 2018. All the while
Amazon’s Prime Now grocery delivery, AmazonFresh is expanding its
reach each month.
Today in Great Briton fully 11% of Britons have stopped going to the supermarkets
for solely online grocery shopping according to a new study by Mintel. Mintel forecast that Britons will spend 9.8 billion pounds
this year for Online groceries.
Our Grocerant Guru® expect that U.S.
consumers will adopt, migrate, and recommend to their friends Alsi, Lidl and
AmazonFresh the same way Britons have. The
days of going to the supermarket are over for a tenth of Britons and our
Grocerant Guru® predicts that the pace of customer adoption to the tripod of
new competition will only increase in the U.S.
The
Mintel study found “As many as half (48%) of Britons are currently online
supermarket shoppers, while 11% now buy their groceries without visiting a
bricks-and-mortar store at all, the study by analysts Mintel found. Younger
consumers are most likely to shun the supermarket trip, with 19% of 25 to 34-year-olds
buying all their groceries online.”
Interestingly
the Mintel report also found that “a quarter of Britons (24%) have never bought
groceries online and have no interest in doing so, rising to 38% of over 55s.”
So, that does tell us that legacy grocery stores will not go away, but they
will have to evolve from groceries too Grocerants and begin filling stores with
Ready-2-Eat and Heat-N-Eat fresh prepared food according to the team at Foodservice Solutions®.
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international corporate presentations, educational forums, or keynotes contact:
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Foodservice Solutions. His extensive experience
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expert and public speaking will leave success clues for all. www.FoodserviceSolutions.us
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