Loblaw says it's exploring grocery home delivery partnership with Instacart
Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 29 Sep, 2017 10:23 AM
Loblaw Companies Ltd. (TSX:L) says it's exploring the possibility of offering grocery home delivery one day.
Spokesman Kevin Groh says in a statement that the company has "engaged" a number of e-commerce innovators around the world, including Instacart, as it continues to explore the best ways to serve its customers in the future. He says that may include home delivery.
Loblaw already offers a click and collect program, where customers order their groceries online and pick up the items at a store's parking lot within a pre-selected time frame. Groh says the program will soon be at 200 of the company's stores.
California-based Instacart enables customers to shop from local stores' inventory and place an order via an app, which is then picked up by a so-called expert shopper and delivered to the customer's location.
The news comes after tech giant Amazon recently acquired Whole Foods Market, which has 13 Canadian locations. The acquisition could accelerate the development of online grocery delivery in Canada.
Currently, Canadians have few options for grocery delivery with a small number of companies, like Grocery Gateway, and a few large chains offering the service in limited locations.
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is misleading people when it says there's no advantage to crossing illegally into Canada to seek asylum, NDP MP Jenny Kwan says.
MARKHAM, Ont. — Ontario Provincial Police say a Canadian man charged in the U.S. after allegedly flying to Atlanta in an attempt to have sex with an underage girl he met online will face further charges in Canada.
VICTORIA — The B.C. government ended the last fiscal year with a surplus of $2.7 billion, largely in line with an unaudited financial picture released about two months ago by the province's former Liberal government.
Police were called to an East Vancouver home just before midnight for a reported shooting. No one was hurt, but a statement said it's believed the shooting was targeted.
