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DoorDash adds new SNAP grocery partners

Posted on June 25, 2024

DoorDash is expanding its SNAP/EBT payment offerings by adding additional grocers. The delivery company first launched its SNAP/EBT payment capability in 2023. Since then, DoorDash says over 1.1 million consumers have added their SNAP/EBT cards to the platform. With the addition of the new grocery partners, over 6,000 locations nationwide will now support SNAP/EBT payment capabilities on DoorDash for on-demand delivery of eligible grocery items. The new grocers include: ACME Markets, Food City, Hy-Vee, Jewel-Osco, Kings Food Markets, Pavilions, Randalls, Shaw’s, Sprouts Farmers Market, Star Market, Stater Bros. Markets, Tom Thumb, and Vons. Since DoorDash‘s launch last year with multiple…

Kroger, Albertsons file pointed responses to FTC

Posted on June 24, 2024

Kroger and Albertsons both filed sharply worded comments this week asserting that the Federal Trade Commission defined the competitive retail and labor markets much too narrowly in its efforts to block the retailers’ planned mergers. Unlike their statements to the media after the FTC announced in February that it would sue to block the proposed, $24.6 billion merger, the retailers took a much more combative stance and provided detailed objections to the FTC’s specific allegations in their latest filings. Related: Hearing to decide next step in Kroger, Albertsons merger set for August “The Commission’s claims are premised entirely on the…

Chicago Target store on the verge of opening

Posted on June 23, 2024

Chicago shoppers will have access to another Target on March 17 when a new location will open in the city’s northwest side Portage Park neighborhood, reports local news affiliate NBC 5. Chicago now has 88 Target stores, and the one that will power up on Sunday is 44,000 square feet, about average for a city location. Full-size Target locations are about 130,000 square feet, and “small-format” CityTarget stores are roughly 40,000 square feet, but can be as small as 15,000 square feet or less, according to the retailer’s website. Target said the store will offer a “unique shopping experience” tailored…