Any time Takeoff puts out new research on how retailers should think about the online grocery business, I eat it up (pun intended). It gives me a chance to sit back, to collect my thoughts, and to rechallenge my thinking about everything happening with the industry.

Trying to find the balance between “cost-to-serve” and “willingness-to-pay,” we explored a model that would play to the strengths of the traditional grocery store.

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Hyperlocal microfulfillment is about to come to grocery at an even faster pace. COVID-19 has forced retailers and consumers to change their habits, and, as such, supply chains have been pressed to get more flexible, and concepts like grocery home delivery, curbside pickup, and pickup-only stores are now all a growing part of the post-COVID grocery lexicon.

Online grocery offers a significant opportunity which may favor the incumbents, rather than the world-renowned online leader, Amazon. — By Timothy M. Laseter