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This is about how a grocery store brand leverages the Cross-Cluster Replication (CCR) capability of Apache Doris to separate its data reading and writing workloads. In this case, where the freshness of data guarantees the freshness of groceries, Apache Doris uses Apache Doris as its data warehouse to monitor and analyze its procurement, sale, and stock in real-time for all its stores and supply chains. Why they need CCR A major part of the user's data warehouse (including the ODS, DWD, DWS, and ADS layers) is built within Apache Doris, which employs a micro-batch scheduling mechanism to coordinate data across the data warehouse layers. However, this is pressured by the burgeoning business of the grocery store brand. The data size they have to receive, store, and analyze is getting larger and larger. That means their data warehouse has to handle bigger data writing batches and more frequent data queries. However, task scheduling during query execution might lead to resource preemption, so any resource shortage can easily compromise performance or even cause task failure or system disruption. Naturally, the user thought of separating the reading and writing workloads. Specifically, they want to replicate data from the ADS layer (which is cleaned, transformed, aggregated, and ready to be queried) to a backup cluster dedicated to query services. This is implemented by the CCR in Apache Doris. It prevents abnormal queries from interrupting data writing and ensures cluster stability. Before CCR Before CCR was available, they innovatively adopted the Multi-Catalog feature of Doris for the same purpose. Multi-Catalog allows users to connect Doris to various data sources conveniently. It is actually designed for federated querying, but the user drew inspiration from it. They wrote a script and tried to pull incremental data via Catalog. Their data synchronization pipeline is as follows: They loaded data from the source cluster to the target cluster by regular scheduling tasks. To identify incremental data, they added a last_update_time field to the tables. There were two downsides to this. Firstly, the data freshness of the target cluster was reliant on and hindered by the scheduling tasks. Secondly, for incremental data ingestion, in order to identify incremental data, the import SQL statement for every table has to include the logic to check the last_update_time field; otherwise, the system just deletes and re-imports the entire table. Such requirements increase development complexity and data error rate. CCR in Apache Doris Just when they were looking for a better solution, Apache Doris released CCR in version 2.0. Compared to the alternatives they've tried, CCR in Apache Doris is: Lightweight in design: The data synchronization tasks consume very few machine resources. They run smoothly without reducing Apache Doris's overall performance.


Easy to use: It can be configured by one simple POST request.


Unlimited in migration: Users can raise the upper limit of the data migration capabilities in CCR by optimizing their cluster configuration.


Consistent in data: The DDL statements executed in the source cluster can be automatically synchronized into the target cluster, ensuring data consistency.


Flexible in synchronization: It is able to perform both full data synchronization and incremental data synchronization. To start CCR in Doris simply requires two steps. Step one is to enable binlogs in both the source cluster and the target cluster. Step two is to send the name of the database or table to be replicated. Then, the system will start synchronizing full or incremental data. The detailed workflow is as follows: In the grocery store brand's case, they need to synchronize a few tables from the source cluster to the target cluster, each table having an incremental data size of about 50 million rows. After a month's trial run, the Doris CCR mechanism is proven to be stable and performant: Higher stability and data accuracy: No replication failure has ever occurred during the trial period. Every data row is transferred and landed in the target cluster accurately.


Streamlined workflows:


Before CCR: The user had to write SQL for each table and write data via Catalog. For tables without a last_update_time field, incremental data synchronization can only be implemented by full-table deletion and re-import.


Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_1 select * from catalog1.db.source_table1 where time > xxx
Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_2 select * from catalog1.db.source_table2 where time > xxx
…
Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_x select * from catalog1.db.source_table_x



After CCR: It only requires one POST request to synchronize an entire database.


curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
    "name": "ccr_test",
    "src": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "9030",
    "thrift_port": "9020",
    "user": "root",
    "password": "",
    "database": "demo",
    "table": ""
    },
    "dest": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "9030",
    "thrift_port": "9020",
    "user": "root",
    "password": "",
    "database": "ccrt",
    "table": ""
    }
}' http://127.0.0.1:9190/create_ccr



Faster data loading: With CCR, it only takes 3~4 seconds to ingest a day's incremental data, as compared to more than 30 seconds with the Catalog method. As for real-time synchronization, CCR can finish data ingestion in 1 second without reliance on manual updates or regular scheduling. Conclusion Using CCR in Apache Doris, the grocery store brand separates reading and writing workloads into different clusters and thus improves overall system stability. This solution delivers a real-time data synchronization latency of about 1 second. To further ensure normal functioning, it has a real-time monitoring and alerting mechanism so any issue will be notified and attended to instantly, as well as a contingency plan to guarantee uninterrupted query services. It also supports partition-based data synchronization (e.g. ALTER TABLE tbl1 REPLACE PARTITION). With the demonstrated effectiveness of CCR, they are planning to replicate more of their data assets for efficient and secure data usage. CCR is also applicable when you need to build multiple data centers or derive a test dataset from your production environment. For further guidance on CCR, join the Apache Doris community. This is about how a grocery store brand leverages the Cross-Cluster Replication (CCR) capability of Apache Doris to separate its data reading and writing workloads. In this case, where the freshness of data guarantees the freshness of groceries, Apache Doris uses Apache Doris as its data warehouse to monitor and analyze its procurement, sale, and stock in real-time for all its stores and supply chains. Cross-Cluster Replication (CCR) Why they need CCR A major part of the user's data warehouse (including the ODS, DWD, DWS, and ADS layers) is built within Apache Doris, which employs a micro-batch scheduling mechanism to coordinate data across the data warehouse layers. However, this is pressured by the burgeoning business of the grocery store brand. The data size they have to receive, store, and analyze is getting larger and larger. That means their data warehouse has to handle bigger data writing batches and more frequent data queries. However, task scheduling during query execution might lead to resource preemption, so any resource shortage can easily compromise performance or even cause task failure or system disruption. Naturally, the user thought of separating the reading and writing workloads. Specifically, they want to replicate data from the ADS layer (which is cleaned, transformed, aggregated, and ready to be queried) to a backup cluster dedicated to query services. This is implemented by the CCR in Apache Doris. It prevents abnormal queries from interrupting data writing and ensures cluster stability. separating the reading and writing workloads. This is implemented by the CCR in Apache Doris. Before CCR Before CCR was available, they innovatively adopted the Multi-Catalog feature of Doris for the same purpose. Multi-Catalog allows users to connect Doris to various data sources conveniently. It is actually designed for federated querying, but the user drew inspiration from it. They wrote a script and tried to pull incremental data via Catalog. Their data synchronization pipeline is as follows: Multi-Catalog They loaded data from the source cluster to the target cluster by regular scheduling tasks. To identify incremental data, they added a last_update_time field to the tables. There were two downsides to this. Firstly, the data freshness of the target cluster was reliant on and hindered by the scheduling tasks. Secondly, for incremental data ingestion, in order to identify incremental data, the import SQL statement for every table has to include the logic to check the last_update_time field; otherwise, the system just deletes and re-imports the entire table. Such requirements increase development complexity and data error rate. last_update_time last_update_time CCR in Apache Doris Just when they were looking for a better solution, Apache Doris released CCR in version 2.0. Compared to the alternatives they've tried, CCR in Apache Doris is: Lightweight in design: The data synchronization tasks consume very few machine resources. They run smoothly without reducing Apache Doris's overall performance. Easy to use: It can be configured by one simple POST request. Unlimited in migration: Users can raise the upper limit of the data migration capabilities in CCR by optimizing their cluster configuration. Consistent in data: The DDL statements executed in the source cluster can be automatically synchronized into the target cluster, ensuring data consistency. Flexible in synchronization: It is able to perform both full data synchronization and incremental data synchronization. Lightweight in design: The data synchronization tasks consume very few machine resources. They run smoothly without reducing Apache Doris's overall performance. Lightweight in design : The data synchronization tasks consume very few machine resources. They run smoothly without reducing Apache Doris's overall performance. Lightweight in design Easy to use: It can be configured by one simple POST request. Easy to use : It can be configured by one simple POST request. Easy to use POST Unlimited in migration: Users can raise the upper limit of the data migration capabilities in CCR by optimizing their cluster configuration. Unlimited in migration : Users can raise the upper limit of the data migration capabilities in CCR by optimizing their cluster configuration. Unlimited in migration Consistent in data: The DDL statements executed in the source cluster can be automatically synchronized into the target cluster, ensuring data consistency. Consistent in data : The DDL statements executed in the source cluster can be automatically synchronized into the target cluster, ensuring data consistency. Consistent in data Flexible in synchronization: It is able to perform both full data synchronization and incremental data synchronization. Flexible in synchronization : It is able to perform both full data synchronization and incremental data synchronization. Flexible in synchronization To start CCR in Doris simply requires two steps. Step one is to enable binlogs in both the source cluster and the target cluster. Step two is to send the name of the database or table to be replicated. Then, the system will start synchronizing full or incremental data. The detailed workflow is as follows: In the grocery store brand's case, they need to synchronize a few tables from the source cluster to the target cluster, each table having an incremental data size of about 50 million rows. After a month's trial run, the Doris CCR mechanism is proven to be stable and performant: Higher stability and data accuracy: No replication failure has ever occurred during the trial period. Every data row is transferred and landed in the target cluster accurately. Streamlined workflows:


Before CCR: The user had to write SQL for each table and write data via Catalog. For tables without a last_update_time field, incremental data synchronization can only be implemented by full-table deletion and re-import.


Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_1 select * from catalog1.db.source_table1 where time > xxx
Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_2 select * from catalog1.db.source_table2 where time > xxx
…
Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_x select * from catalog1.db.source_table_x



After CCR: It only requires one POST request to synchronize an entire database.


curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
    "name": "ccr_test",
    "src": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "9030",
    "thrift_port": "9020",
    "user": "root",
    "password": "",
    "database": "demo",
    "table": ""
    },
    "dest": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "9030",
    "thrift_port": "9020",
    "user": "root",
    "password": "",
    "database": "ccrt",
    "table": ""
    }
}' http://127.0.0.1:9190/create_ccr Faster data loading: With CCR, it only takes 3~4 seconds to ingest a day's incremental data, as compared to more than 30 seconds with the Catalog method. As for real-time synchronization, CCR can finish data ingestion in 1 second without reliance on manual updates or regular scheduling. Higher stability and data accuracy: No replication failure has ever occurred during the trial period. Every data row is transferred and landed in the target cluster accurately. Higher stability and data accuracy : No replication failure has ever occurred during the trial period. Every data row is transferred and landed in the target cluster accurately. Higher stability and data accuracy Streamlined workflows: Before CCR: The user had to write SQL for each table and write data via Catalog. For tables without a last_update_time field, incremental data synchronization can only be implemented by full-table deletion and re-import. Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_1 select * from catalog1.db.source_table1 where time > xxx
Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_2 select * from catalog1.db.source_table2 where time > xxx
…
Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_x select * from catalog1.db.source_table_x After CCR: It only requires one POST request to synchronize an entire database. curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
    "name": "ccr_test",
    "src": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "9030",
    "thrift_port": "9020",
    "user": "root",
    "password": "",
    "database": "demo",
    "table": ""
    },
    "dest": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "9030",
    "thrift_port": "9020",
    "user": "root",
    "password": "",
    "database": "ccrt",
    "table": ""
    }
}' http://127.0.0.1:9190/create_ccr Streamlined workflows: Streamlined workflows: Before CCR: The user had to write SQL for each table and write data via Catalog. For tables without a last_update_time field, incremental data synchronization can only be implemented by full-table deletion and re-import. Before CCR: The user had to write SQL for each table and write data via Catalog. For tables without a last_update_time field, incremental data synchronization can only be implemented by full-table deletion and re-import. Before CCR : The user had to write SQL for each table and write data via Catalog. For tables without a last_update_time field, incremental data synchronization can only be implemented by full-table deletion and re-import. Before CCR last_update_time Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_1 select * from catalog1.db.source_table1 where time > xxx
Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_2 select * from catalog1.db.source_table2 where time > xxx
…
Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_x select * from catalog1.db.source_table_x Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_1 select * from catalog1.db.source_table1 where time > xxx
Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_2 select * from catalog1.db.source_table2 where time > xxx
…
Insert into catalog1.db.destination_table_x select * from catalog1.db.source_table_x After CCR: It only requires one POST request to synchronize an entire database. After CCR: It only requires one POST request to synchronize an entire database. After CCR : It only requires one POST request to synchronize an entire database. After CCR POST curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
    "name": "ccr_test",
    "src": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "9030",
    "thrift_port": "9020",
    "user": "root",
    "password": "",
    "database": "demo",
    "table": ""
    },
    "dest": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "9030",
    "thrift_port": "9020",
    "user": "root",
    "password": "",
    "database": "ccrt",
    "table": ""
    }
}' http://127.0.0.1:9190/create_ccr curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
    "name": "ccr_test",
    "src": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "9030",
    "thrift_port": "9020",
    "user": "root",
    "password": "",
    "database": "demo",
    "table": ""
    },
    "dest": {
    "host": "localhost",
    "port": "9030",
    "thrift_port": "9020",
    "user": "root",
    "password": "",
    "database": "ccrt",
    "table": ""
    }
}' http://127.0.0.1:9190/create_ccr Faster data loading: With CCR, it only takes 3~4 seconds to ingest a day's incremental data, as compared to more than 30 seconds with the Catalog method. As for real-time synchronization, CCR can finish data ingestion in 1 second without reliance on manual updates or regular scheduling. Faster data loading : With CCR, it only takes 3~4 seconds to ingest a day's incremental data, as compared to more than 30 seconds with the Catalog method. As for real-time synchronization, CCR can finish data ingestion in 1 second without reliance on manual updates or regular scheduling. Faster data loading 3~4 seconds Conclusion Using CCR in Apache Doris, the grocery store brand separates reading and writing workloads into different clusters and thus improves overall system stability. This solution delivers a real-time data synchronization latency of about 1 second. To further ensure normal functioning, it has a real-time monitoring and alerting mechanism so any issue will be notified and attended to instantly, as well as a contingency plan to guarantee uninterrupted query services. It also supports partition-based data synchronization (e.g. ALTER TABLE tbl1 REPLACE PARTITION ). With the demonstrated effectiveness of CCR, they are planning to replicate more of their data assets for efficient and secure data usage. ALTER TABLE tbl1 REPLACE PARTITION CCR is also applicable when you need to build multiple data centers or derive a test dataset from your production environment. For further guidance on CCR, join the Apache Doris community . Apache Doris community

Streamlining Data Operations: How a Grocery Chain Optimizes Workloads with Apache Doris

Ideas for Grocery Stores An innovative solution that allows remote monitoring of store shelves using special cameras and electronic price tags can significantly enhance the operations of retailers. This system can not only improve product accessibility on the shelves but also optimize work processes, staff placement, and customer satisfaction. Electronic price tags interact with wireless cameras and aid in identifying specific items on the shelves. Real-time data is collected and can be used for in-store process management. Store employees can utilize this data to identify missing items, improper product placements, and ensure product arrangement in line with the planogram. In the Netherlands, an interesting concept emerged in 2019 in supermarkets, aiming to facilitate communication for elderly customers. Jumbo stores introduced special zones near the cash registers where people can snack and chat. This idea drew attention from the United States, emphasizing a shift towards slower, more socially focused service in contrast to automated technologies. Other chains like Carrefour and Sobeys are also following this path. Perhaps, in the future, we may witness a scenario where, after shopping, we engage with self-checkout kiosks, interact with robots, and share stories with one another. Smart Cameras and Automation in Grocery Stores In , smart cameras have been installed above the cash registers, capable of scanning items by themselves. These cameras can recognize 85% of the products placed on the checkout counter by employees. This innovation eliminates the need for manual scanning, making the checkout process five times faster. However, larger items, such as beverage containers, still require manual scanning and fruits and vegetables need to be weighed. Colruyt supermarket in Halle This approach is an alternative to the practice in some supermarkets where customers place items in a cart that are then scanned by smart cameras. The debate on which method is better, more convenient, and effective remains open. In the retail sector, numerous startups are actively working on innovations. One example is the Dutch startup GreenSwapp, which is actively developing an app that provides ecological information about products. By simply scanning a product's barcode with your phone's camera, you can instantly learn about the product's environmental sustainability and carbon footprint. This approach can help consumers make informed decisions about what to purchase, considering the ecological impact in addition to price, health considerations, and other factors. Trends in Localization Recently, Whole Foods opened a unique supermarket in a historical building in Manhattan. The store features a large selection of products from local producers, with over 1,000 items sourced locally. The store collaborates extensively with local startups, offering products such as nut-based yogurt from the Brooklyn-based company CHKP Foods. The store's design carefully preserves the historical atmosphere of the building, and its location in this part of Manhattan makes it unique since there were no grocery stores in the area before. We can expect other companies to explore similar endeavors. AI-Driven Price Reduction Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain from the Netherlands, is implementing a price reduction system using (AI). The objective of this initiative is to sell fresh products with short shelf lives. The program gradually reduces prices throughout the day, relying on AI algorithms. The main goal is to ensure all products are sold by the end of the day, reducing product waste. This implementation is part of the company's sustainable development strategy. The system operates with different discount levels: 25%, 40%, and 70%. Prices dynamically adjust based on demand and product stock levels. Electronic price tags display the current price, original price, and the discount level. artificial intelligence Wasteless, an Israeli software provider for optimizing product markdowns, works with Albert Heijn as a consultant. Initially, Pricer's electronic price tags were used, but the decision was made to switch to the Hanshow system from China. Retail and Big Data To better understand customer behavior and offer more suitable products and services, retailers should seek data not only within stores but also consider customer interests beyond the store's confines. Boosting Loyalty through Subscription Models Subscription models that offer increased cashback can incentivize customers for long-term collaboration. AI for Process Optimization Companies are implementing voice assistants, automated call centers, self-checkout kiosks, and automatic shelf inventory systems to optimize their operations. Further optimization of processes is expected. Enhancing Service Quality with Computer Vision To ensure driver comfort and monitor their condition, such as preventing drowsy driving, computer vision can play a crucial role. AI Will Not Replace Humans. The introduction of artificial intelligence can expedite information processing and reduce costs, but the human factor will remain an integral part of the process. Neural networks can replace consultants by providing answers to specific questions but only with proper human guidance. In this context, prompt engineering is essential.

Revolutionizing Grocery Shopping: From Smart Shelves to Social Spaces and AI-Driven Innovations 

In the bustling world of retail, the grocery sector has long been at the forefront of innovation. From automated checkouts to personalized recommendations, advancements have continually shaped the way we shop for our daily essentials. Whether we personally embark on shopping trips or not, there is always someone designated to procure necessary grocery items. For years, the grocery sector has remained largely unchanged - with minor changes such as self-checkout - and for those of us who hate it, there never seems to be a light at the end of the miserable grocery shopping tunnel. However, Artificial Generative Intelligence (AGI) has emerged as a game-changer, bringing unprecedented possibilities to the grocery industry. How AGI Is Transforming the Grocery Sector This cutting-edge technology holds the potential to transform every aspect of the grocery sector, from supply chain management to customer experience. Efficient inventory management has always been a cornerstone of successful grocery stores and with AGI, retailers will be empowered to optimize their inventory by analyzing vast amounts of data, including historical sales, weather patterns, and even social media trends. By leveraging machine learning algorithms, this technology enables accurate demand forecasting, reducing instances of overstocking or understocking. As a result, grocery stores can optimize their supply chain, minimize waste, and ensure that customers find the products they desire. The grocery industry relies heavily on complex supply chain networks, involving numerous suppliers, distributors, and retailers. AGI revolutionizes this process by introducing intelligent automation. It enables real-time tracking of inventory, monitors delivery schedules, and identifies potential bottlenecks. By analyzing transportation data, weather conditions, and traffic patterns, AI-powered systems can provide dynamic route optimization, ensuring timely and cost-effective deliveries. This streamlining of supply chain operations not only reduces costs but also enhances overall efficiency and customer satisfaction. One of the most significant advantages of AGI lies in its ability to provide personalized shopping experiences. By analyzing customer data, including purchase history, preferences, and demographics, AI algorithms can generate personalized recommendations tailored to individual shoppers. These recommendations extend beyond simple product suggestions, encompassing meal planning, recipe ideas, and even dietary restrictions. With AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants, grocery retailers can offer real-time customer support, answer queries, and assist in navigating the store, enhancing the overall shopping experience. Through diverse methods like visual search, product tagging, and image recognition, generative AI holds the potential to guide customers toward novel and relevant products they might not have otherwise considered. Recent reports highlight how certain businesses are actively exploring ways to integrate this technology into their e-commerce platforms. An example of this is Instacart, which aims to leverage a chatbot-powered search engine capable of answering users' food-related inquiries by utilizing data from its extensive network of 75,000 grocery stores. The groundbreaking ability to automatically recommend recipes based on the available stock could potentially revolutionize the e-grocery industry by helping stores upsell products that would otherwise go unnoticed by consumers. Pricing is a critical factor that influences consumer behavior and AGI now assists grocery retailers in devising smarter pricing strategies by analyzing market trends, competitor pricing, and customer demand patterns. This brilliant technology enables dynamic pricing, where prices can be adjusted in real-time based on factors such as time of day, seasonality, or even individual customer preferences. By optimizing prices, grocery stores can strike the right balance between profitability and customer satisfaction, fostering customer loyalty and driving sales. AGI also helps in maintaining food quality and safety which is paramount in the grocery sector. AGI ensures the integrity of products throughout the supply chain. By analyzing data from various sources, including quality control inspections, supplier certifications, and consumer feedback, AI algorithms can identify potential risks and deviations in real-time. This proactive approach enables prompt actions such as product recalls or quality improvements, safeguarding consumer health and trust. Generative AI is not just a technological advancement; it is a transformative force reshaping the grocery industry. With its immense potential to optimize inventory management, streamline supply chains, personalize shopping experiences, devise intelligent pricing strategies, and enhance food safety, AGI holds the key to unlocking a new era of efficiency and customer-centricity. As retailers embrace this cutting-edge technology, they will gain a competitive edge, driving innovation, and redefining the grocery shopping experience for consumers worldwide. The future of the grocery sector has arrived, and it is powered by AGI.

Grocery Shopping Gets a Dash of Magic: Unleashing the Power of AGI

Online grocery platforms are witnessing rapid growth in the eCommerce industry. With the widespread grocery trends, the market value of the eCommerce grocery industry has doubled. There is no doubt in the fact that people nowadays feel much ease in purchasing groceries online. The main objective of online grocery stores is to deliver the best quality products directly to their customer’s doorsteps at competitive prices. Great website features are crucial in running an online grocery platform. And in a world full of advancements, supermarkets must provide their customers with a seamless shopping experience. And for that, an online grocery platform should have a wide variety of features to offer products to customers; the platform must make the products easily accessible. In a nutshell, one should make a website as simple as a physical store. Undoubtedly, the rapid growth of online grocery has created a lot of interest in the grocery eCommerce market. This blog post aims to help entrepreneurs better understand how an online grocery marketplace works, the top software to build a grocery marketplace, and the critical features of a successful online grocery marketplace. Top Market Players in The Grocery Industry According to the Research and Market reports, the global online grocery market rate is expected to reach USD 2,1583.53 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 25.3% from 2022 to 2030.  With the growth of the online grocery industry, the preferences of customers are also changing. Many online stores offer services like placing and collecting orders on the same day, which helps in the market's rapid growth. Business Founded Founder Investors Funding Peapod 1989 Young Lee Ahold $73M Instacart 2012 Apoorv MehtaMax MullenBrandon Leonardo Sequoia CapitalCoatue ManagementKhosla Ventures $2.7B Shipt 2014 Bill Smith GreycroftHarbert Venture Partners $65.2B FreshDirect 2002 David MclnerneyJason Ackerman David MclnerneyJason Ackerman $280M Farmigo 2009 Benzi RonenYossi Pik BenchmarkSherbrook Capital $26M Types of Grocery eCommerce Software Grocery software is a fast and reliable turn-key solution equipped with features to efficiently and easily launch an online supermarket. These are convenient and less expensive because they come up with purpose-built features and pre-integrated APIs. This software doesn’t require any coding from your side. There are two types of eCommerce grocery platforms for online merchants to choose from which are: Hosted Grocery eCommerce software Self-hosted Grocery eCommerce software Hosted Grocery eCommerce Software They offer ready-made eCommerce Software for creating a store for your business. It runs on a server that the solution providers fully manage. This means you can easily create an online store without worrying about hosting/storing files/data on the cloud and all technical details. Examples: Mycloud Growcer, Mercatus, Unata, Shophero Self-Hosted Grocery eCommerce Software These platforms allow full access to source code to build a full-fledged online grocery marketplace for businesses. The self-hosted grocery eCommerce solution is one where the business owners are responsible for the hosting, which will give them full freedom to implement their online grocery marketplace according to their business needs. Examples: Growcer, ZielCommerce, Yelo Top 5 Grocery Software to Manage Marketplace Effectively As we have already elaborated that grocery software is essential for a successful marketplace. So, here we have put together a list of the top 5 grocery software that will help supermarkets to enhance their business growth in the eCommerce industry. 1. Growcer Growcer is a self-hosted, readymade grocery software that is fully equipped with a set of multiple features and functionalities which help in not only the start-up of an online grocery business but also other businesses like online pharmacy delivery, liquor and wine delivery business, food delivery, supplement delivery, online pet food delivery, and many more. Its inbuilt inventory module provides real-time inventory tracking and also helps with order management, pickup management, tax management, and much more in one place. Its latest version, with enhanced features and functionalities, helps you to launch your hyperlocal marketplace with minimum effort. In addition, Growcer also offers you a lifetime license for experiencing complete ownership through a one-time payment process. Key Highlights: Define Radius Offers limitless scalability Auto-order completion BOPIS (Buy online, and pick up in-store) 2. ZielCommerce Zielcommerce comes with a one-time payment option and customizable software that helps you build an online grocery delivery website and app. Zielcommerce supports both single-vendor as well as multi-vendor online grocery businesses. It reaches customers globally with its multi-currency and multilingual options. Zeilcommerce is a great website builder for online grocery marketplace, providing complete solutions to online grocery retailers and engaging consumers through customized shopping. Key Highlights: Customization One time cost End-to-end support Fully ensure 3. Mercatus Mercatus is a feature-rich eCommerce software that empowers online supermarkets to run successfully. Its configurable front end allows sellers to build their online grocery marketplace, offering an in-store experience with multiple product options. This flexibility of this software allows you to monitor stock as there is a convenient dashboard that shows all the inventory reports. Its user-oriented UI supports better customer engagement, and the software also enables good revenue through its entire management tools. Key Highlights: Offers order management Multipayment channels Smooth integration with CRM, loyalty program, and many more Inventory management 4. ShopHero ShopHero is a popular platform which makes it easy to launch an eCommerce grocery marketplace. Its retail success platform consists of three main modules – eCommerce, POS (point of sale), and buyer engagement. Their logistics technologies also offer independent grocers cost-effective home delivery services without a considerable investment in technology or delivery infrastructure. In addition, it is a platform that offers an automated marketing system, reports & analytics, and much more. Key Highlights: Inventory management Loyalty Program Intuitive UI/UX Convenient payment experience 5. Yelo Yelo is a multi-vendor marketplace SAAS software that allows you to create a website and mobile apps to sell groceries online. The entrepreneurs are offered a complete tech suite to run and automate their business operations in terms of ordering, delivering, and marketing. Furthermore, Yelo also offers more than 50 integrations in payment, accounting, and marketing. Apart from delivering groceries to doorsteps now, they also provide facilities for drone delivery. Key Highlights: Promotion management SEO management Return management Provide a facility for drone delivery Essential features for Online Grocery Business With the help of the above-mentioned grocery software, you can build a fully loaded website with a set of unique features that will make your marketplace website easy to use and mobile-friendly. Here, we have compiled a list of some features that you must include in your online grocery marketplace to attract vendors and buyers. Product Catalog System Grocery eCommerce marketplace must have this feature to create and manage lists of products in terms of import/export, categorizing them, inventories, and much more, easily. Order Management Because of this feature, vendors can easily manage multiple order requests at once. This feature gives them full details about total delivered orders, pending orders, cancelled orders, order history, and much more. Inventory management An online grocery marketplace integrated with this feature helps to provide real-time location and regulate track inventory status so that customers can collect all details regarding stock availability. Radius Calculation An online grocery marketplace must provide this system which helps customers get all the details of the nearest store just by typing the address. It is also preferable for delivery partners as they will get a specific radius within which they can do deliveries Multiple Payment Options Make the purchasing process as simple as possible for the customers by including a variety of online payment options in the shopping cart. The availability of multiple payment options like COD, card payments, eWallets, and other payment methods on your marketplace, gives your customers more reasons to continue buying from you. Scheduled Deliveries An online grocery marketplace must use this feature to provide schedule-based deliveries. This feature helps customers to get a clear idea of the delivery schedule by knowing the availability of vendors and delivery partners. Pick-at-Store Options These services are becoming very popular nowadays in an online grocery marketplace. Integrating this feature in an online grocery marketplace allows buyers a convenient self-pick-up facility. This enables customers to shop online at their convenience by visiting stores whenever they want immediate delivery or a combination of both. Conclusion Customers have started utilizing online grocery platforms, and with the rapid growth in the eCommerce grocery industry, starting an online grocery platform can be a profitable business option. Furthermore, to experience the success of your online grocery business, we have created a list of top grocery software that can help you make the most of your online grocery business by choosing the best software for your marketplace based on your business needs. So, try to gather as much information as possible by considering everything you’ve read above in this article.

Top Software To Build an Online Grocery Platform in 2023

Mariam Jimoh is the founder and CEO of Oja, a one-stop shop for cultural foods. Oja’s mission is to radically reshape groceries and make foods from all cultures accessible from anywhere in the world. Mariam was recognized in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Technology list, and her company also recently raised 3.4 million dollars in funding. In this interview, Mariam shares her life and journey with us. From being born to Nigerian parents to learning all the useful skills that helped her in her entrepreneurship journey along to way, to founding a food startup that connects Afrocarribean people in the diaspora with ingredients to help them cook beloved meals from their home countries. Watch Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6t3eDO_3P0&ab_channel=PeaceItimi Video Timestamps 0:00 - Introduction 1:58 - Favourite Memory Growing Up 2:48 - The Journey to building Oja 8:14 - Lessons from University and Internships 10:00 - Companies founded before Oja 11:27 - Proudest Moment 12:44 - Experience Outsourcing 16:13 - The turning point for the Business 17:03 - Most exciting and frustrating aspect of running Oja 20:13 - Experience Raising Funds 22:07 - Experience Running the Company, the delights, and surprises. 24:30 - How she approaches Teambuilding 26:53 - Things she would have done differently 27:43 - What Inspires Her 29:10 - What she looks forward to in the future. 29:45 - Three Lessons she's learned along the way 32:00 - Advice to other black women

#FoundersConnect: Mariam Jimoh, CEO & Founder of Oja (Ethnic Grocery Delivery Startup)

Customers’ buying behavior keeps changing often. To make a business run effectively, you need to understand your buyers and also the latest trends and technologies in the market. The online grocery business is gaining a higher reach in recent days. When compared with other eCommerce industries, grocery eCommerce platforms assure same-day delivery and in some cases 2 – 3 hours delivery. With a wide range of customers and unlimited product categories, the industry is showing steady growth. Let us have a clear understanding of the online grocery business with its models, its features, and also let us analyze the top, leading grocery eCommerce platforms in the market. Types of Online Grocery Business Models Before launching your own grocery ecommerce platform you need to analyze your business model and should develop your online grocery store that suits your business well. Let us understand the types of online grocery business model in detail. – a single grocery platform that allows several vendors to get associated with it and allows them to sell their products through the platform is the multivendor grocery platform. Multi vendor Grocery Platform – meeting out the customers’ needs through local offline shops through an online marketplace is called the hyperlocal marketplace platform. Hyperlocal Grocery Platform – selling our own products through a single digital platform and attracting more customers to the marketplace is the single vendor grocery store Single vendor Grocery Platform Here is the list of top 15 most popular Online Grocery Platforms 2022 For Building App & Website 1. Zielcommerce – The #1 Solutions To Build Grocery  Ecommerce Platform Zielcommerce is a cost-effective grocery ecommerce software that can be along with lifetime license and one-time payment. The platform provides multifacted grocery solutions like multi vendor, hyperlocal and single vendor. This platform has been integrated with more than 50+ third party APIs. Platform Highlights Zielcommerce is flexible ecommerce grocery store that acts as a one stop solution for all business demands. The platform comes with multilanguage and multicurrency support that will make you reach the global customers easily. The platform has all necessary marketing tools that are essential to promote the . grocery ecommerce platform A Detailed Key Highlights of Grocery Ecommerce Platform The excellent admin dashboard makes this online grocery platform more reliable and helps to enhance the business. Streamline your order flow with an effective order management solution. A flexible commission set-up for multi vendors grocery store Multiple payment gateways integrated in this online grocery store software. By purchasing Zielcommerce with minimum investment you can get the amazing returns Explore Zielcommerce Grocery Ecommerce Platform 2. Ownmyshop – Personalized Online Grocery Store Software Ownmyshop enables you to expand your brick and mortar grocery store software to an aligned digital grocery eCommerce store. With this grocery ecommerce platform, you can analyze the shopper's data and their behavior. This will help in personalizing the customer's online experience. Platform Highlights Ownmyshop delivers the best grocery ecommerce website that has all essential and comprehensive features to uplift your online grocery store and make it a big success. The platform has inbuilt advanced search facility that will enable the users to find their products easily. The user-friendly platform will retain the customers with your business. The power-packed features of this grocery eCommerce website: Manage deliveries with the grocery delivery management system that is pre-built in this online grocery store software. Optimize your route for delivering the products with the help of Google Mapping. Delivery agents will get an exclusive delivery agent app that will help them to have a clear picture of their tasks. Explore Ownmy shop online grocery ecommerce solutions 3. Zemez – A Trustworthy Grocery Ecommerce Platform Zemez is trusted by more than 20K businesses. This online grocery platform will let your customer have end-to-end real-time delivery tracking. This grocery store software is developed with the latest technologies that can give a user-friendly experience to the customers. Platform Highlights Zemez is a well-known software that can fulfill all online grocery shopping demands. The elegant design and user-friendly theme grabs the attention of the visitors and helps in easy conversion. Zemez provides wide range of payment options that can facilitate the buyers to decide on purchasing the product without any hesitation. The ultimate features of this grocery ecommerce website: Zemez is integrated with business intelligence that can give you a clear insight about your business. Get the advanced reports and statistics with this grocery eCommerce platform. No extra cost is required to promote the platform as the ecommerce grocery platform is SEO-friendly and will get you organic traffic with less effort. Have a detailed product description catalogue for managing your products. Explore EMEZ Grocery Store Software 4. Rocketbazar – A Reliable Online Grocery Store Software Rocketbazaar, a leading grocery eCommerce platform, lets you manage your business effortlessly. This grocery eCommerce store software will provide solutions for multi-store grocery shopping and delivery. Customers can explore the products using advanced search options. Platform Highlights Rocketbazar has become a powerful ecommerce grocery software after undergoing tremendous market analysis. This market segmentation has made this platform a perfect choice for any startups and fits into any business type. The grocery ecommerce platform provides various options for revenue generation. The exclusive features of this grocery eCommerce  Platform: Customers can either pick-up the groceries from the store or can even have door-step delivery. Scheduling the delivery of the groceries is possible with this online grocery store software. Live grocery order tracking is an advanced feature that is enabled in this grocery ecommerce website. Explore  Rocket Bazar Online Grocery Platform. 5. IONWE – Customizable Online Grocery Platform IONWE has a dedicated central admin that can manage the overall grocery eCommerce platform. This eCommerce grocery store software has a perfect inventory management that allows the store owners to be well informed about the stock details. The store owner can fix the pricing for the groceries and also can have offers and discounts that will delight the customers. Platform Highlights Users can carve the grocery store according to his product and service as the platform is 100% customizable. The efficient product search of this grocery software will simplify the shopping experience of your customers. Users can gain greater reputation in the digital market by launching Zielcommerce as their renowned grocery platform. The notable features of this online grocery store software: A reliable financial accounting system than can keep a perfect track on store earnings The real-time tracking feature will facilitate the customers to track their product easily. Customized menus for various grocery franchises. Please contact IONWE grocery ecommerce solution for custom plan pricing. 6. Essitco – A Reputed Online Grocery Store Software Essitco is backed by robust and scalable tech-architecture. The deployment of this grocery eCommerce website is faster compared to other online grocery store software. PCI compliance is quite assured with this online grocery platform so there will not be any issues on security. Platform Highlights Essitco is a challenging ecommerce grocery store to all competitors who are in this field. The platform never fails to impress the visitors with its advanced features that makes the ecommerce grocery store more lively and helps in easy order conversion. One can get more returns by installing Essitco as their ecommerce grocery software. The advance features of this online grocery ecommerce platform: The whole grocery store software is developed by keeping the best SEO optimization for apps in mind. Scheduling, payment and live tracking are added features. Can easily manage various grocery delivery operators and drivers through the app. Can run referral campaigns on both the grocery ecommerce website as well as on apps. Contact Customizable plans for enterprise users with greater needs Essitco 7. Mycloud Grocer – A Renowned Grocery Ecommerce Website Mycloud Grocer provides you with an effortless storefront administration and management. The effective delivery management of this grocery eCommerce website allows the customers to select their convenient time for delivering the grocery items. You can harness the power of product ratings and reviews mainly to redefine the online shopping experience. Platform Highlights Mycloud Grocer is a versatile ecommerce grocery store that can easily get adapted to your business model and business style. You need not worry about getting traffic to your ecommerce grocery website. The platform comes with complete SEO and social media integration that can easily get you more traffic to your website. The extraordinary features of this online grocery platform: With dedicated mobile apps, you can have a mobile presence. Through retail management system, you can easily organize your orders This grocery eCommerce platform is well integrated with payment gateways. Admin can push messages to store owners, drivers and customers. Please contact their mycloud grocer sales team for custom pricing. 8. Shophero – A Robust Online Grocery Platform Shophero is well optimized for the web and mobile grocery ecommerce platform and comes with free installation and setup. Customers will experience a user-friendly front-end and the admin enjoys a perfect back-end. Vendors can have both web and mobile apps for their processing. Platform Highlights Shophero has attracted numerous users with its salient features. The users so far have never faced any complaints while using this ecommerce grocery software. No technical knowledge is needed to use this platform and it is easy to customize and can fit it into your theme and style. The unique features of this online grocery store software: Customers can avail a convenient payment experience. Admin can manage SMS gateway from back-end and can send SMS to the customers as well as to the vendors. Customers can call and place orders with their favorite grocery store software. Admin can manage the complete activity log. Please contact shophero directly for a more information 9. Mobicommerce – An Incrediable Grocery Ecommerce Website Mobicommerce is one of the most famed grocery ecommerce platform that can build your brand and let you reach your target audience. The store owners can make profitable decisions by quickly analyzing the web analytics data of the online grocery store software. Customers can easily detect the delivery person’s movement through real-time tracking. Platform Highlights Mobicommerce is one of the trustable grocery ecommerce platform that has a separate customer base. The platform is highly secured with proper SSL certificate configuration. This makes users feel safe to purchase with your platform. So you can expect good conversion and can also acquire more new customers to your business. The remarkable features of this grocery eCommerce platform: Gain multiple location access through this online grocery store software. Vendors can earn commission that mutually benefits the store owner and the vendors. Delight your customers with fast delivery time with the help of delivery management systems. Mobicommerce plans include all the basics for starting your web-based grocery ecommerce software 10. Ecommercesite – An Ultimate Online Grocery Platform Ecommercesite provides a one-step solution for all your grocery demands. This grocery ecommerce platform is designed and developed to assist the commoners. Ecommerce site gives you the grocery ecommerce website that can help you to handle the stock and will take care of the delivery of the products. This online grocery platform gives you the ease of managing the accounts and can have a hassle-free transaction. The demanded features of this grocery ecommerce platform Well-integrated payment gateways that facilitate the customers to buy the products 24/7 customer support that can simply delight your customers. Real-time tracking feature to keep your customers at ease. An exclusive dashboard is given for each grocer. Contact custom grocery solutions for yokart team 11. Shipt – An Outstanding Online Grocery Store Software Shipt comes with all advanced features that are essential for grocery store software. This online grocery platform meets all the latest technology demands in the field. You can enjoy the scalability and the flexibility and can make your grocery software to give an ultimate shopping experience to the users. The true features of this grocery ecommerce platform You can customize the online grocery platform as per your business requirements. By paying a one-time payment you can own this grocery ecommerce platform. Enhanced payment options in this grocery ecommerce store software can provide a secured payment transaction Shipt could be an option for your grocery ecommerce platform 12. Mercatus – An Integrated Online Grocery Platform Mercatus Online grocery store software gives you a unified shopping experience. This  platform has user-centric UI that supports better customer engagement when compared with other online grocery stores. The responsive design of this grocery platform never fails to attract and impress the audience. Platform Highlights Mercatus allows you to deliver your grocery products with the reliable online grocery platform that can fit in all market size. The grocery ecommerce website holds a unique potential user interface and ensures the users to get a seamless shopping experience and can get you good returns in sales and revenue. The real features of this grocery eCommerce website: Avail 24/7 technical support that can back your online grocery store software and its functions. The platform is highly configurable and also scalable. Gain operational efficiencies in all the back-end processes of your grocery eCommerce platform. Mercatus is completely secured and fully PCI compliant. Contact Mercatus directly for custom pricing. 13. OurHarvest – A Supreme Online Grocery Platform OurHarvest is a single solutions that can give all grocery ecommerce platform. You can easily turn your offline grocery store software and can enter the online grocery ecommerce platform by trusting OurHarvest grocery ecommerce software. This online grocery platform is rich in all features that are needed and demanded by the buyers and the grocers. The salient features of this grocery ecommerce website The excellent admin dashboard makes this online grocery platform more reliable and helps to enhance the business. Dedicated apps for admin, delivery agent and the buyers will delight the grocers as well as the buyers. Flexible order management will let you to manage your orders efficiently. 14.	DelivX – a multivendor online grocery platform DelivX allows you to explore the new dimensions of the grocery store software. You can give a contactless delivery and can build your customers’ support through this online grocery platform. The unique UI and UX give the customers a seamless grocery shopping experience. The significant features of this grocery ecommerce website: The advanced search option will let the buyer to search product-wise and also store-wise. The scheduling and payment feature of this online grocery store software will let the buyer to schedule their delivery time and can pay with the available payment options. In-app wallet is well-integrated with this online grocery platform. 15. ShopurGrocery – A Remarkable Grocery Ecommerce Platform ShopurGrocery will help you to create your own personalized cloud platform. You can use this grocery ecommerce platform in both web and as an app. This online grocery platform provides high accessibility to the users. The grocery software is well-integrated with finest delivery management system and gives an awesome shopping experience. The intense features of this grocery ecommerce website: Customize the way you like the grocery ecommerce software to be. The mobile app will give customers a personal shopping experience. This online grocery platform is completely device compatible and can be used well in both IOS and android platforms. Must Have Features for a Profitable Grocery eCommerce Platform – narrow down the options that your customers are searching for with advanced searching and filtering options built in your grocery platform. Easy search – let your customers and vendors know about the order status in your online grocery store and allow them to easily track their orders and get status. Order tracking – delight your customers by providing special discount and coupons that will make them buy again and again through your grocery ecommerce platform Coupons and discounts – facilitate your audience to utilize your payment option to buy products from your and ensure them that your grocery platform is a highly secured one. Secured multiple payment option ecommerce software – never miss an opportunity to get your customers’ feedback about your grocery platform service and product quality. This will enhance your online credibility. Reviews & rating Conclusion The global online grocery platform is facing healthy growth. You may have realized the importance and now know what the leading grocery ecommerce platform is that you can rely on for your business. Check what features that are essential to run your online grocery store software and listed above. Good luck! choose the best grocery ecommerce platform suited to your needs from the options

15 Best Grocery Ecommerce Platforms to Build Your Grocery Website & Apps

Online grocery services are steadily gaining in popularity. Recent statistics show that of American shoppers buy groceries online at least once a week. In addition, U.S. digital grocery sales are expected to increase by at least . 22 percent 149 percent by 2023 Despite this level of growth, it's important for online grocery delivery services to understand that there will be a unique set of challenges that come with the development of a top-tier e-grocery experience for customers. Here are five lessons from Food Rocket that can help other brands avoid the same mistakes we made. Leave the bright, flashy packaging to retail chains. In e-grocery, your customers are making their choices virtually. You don't need to create attention-grabbing packaging with bright colors or flashy graphics. Focus your efforts on developing a product description that's enticing, informative and useful to the customer. A recent survey found that more than of online shoppers place a "high value" on product descriptions when it's time to make a purchase. This is especially true for younger generations, who are to be influenced by product descriptions that they perceive as "impressive." 87 percent 40 percent more likely It is actually quite difficult to translate the in-person customer experience to a comparable online experience. When customers are in your store, they can see, smell and touch the products. They can also get descriptions, nutrition information, manufacturer information and more when they pick up a physical product. Since this is impossible for an online shopping "trip," you must do everything in your power to support a consumer's need for information directly in the app. Take the time to develop suitable packaging solutions. Imagine that your company decides to deliver hot coffee. The challenges of how to keep it hot for 15-30 minutes, how to retain the taste, and how to deliver the products and necessary condiments without damage are all important considerations. Choosing the right type of packaging is vital for e-grocery deliveries. After all, it doesn't matter how good your coffee is if it arrives with cream and sugar spilled in the package or a cold latte in the cup. Food Rocket once decided to deliver these amazing danishes with fresh berries and vanilla cream. Customers were so excited about the product, so we expected a great launch day. However, after launch, our customer chat was flooded with complaints about how the danishes arrived damaged from delivery! We realized that we needed to pause deliveries for them and rethink the packaging before offering them in the app again. We learned our lesson and had a great success story with hot dog delivery. We developed a perfect container with the help of our team and a supplier, and we included a separate "topping holder" to keep ingredients separate and give customers control over how much topping to add. Be prepared to change how some products are delivered. Having the right packaging for the product is just the beginning. As we saw with the danish launch and imagined coffee delivery, some products must be completely changed before they can be successfully delivered. In the hot dog example above, I mentioned a separate topping holder. This provides a better experience for the customer because it keeps each topping fresh and allows customers to "choose their own adventure" when it comes to adding toppings. The same is true for many products. Sauces often need to be placed in containers separate from the main course, and temperature alterations may need to happen for other products. For example, if a latte needs to stay hot for up to 30 minutes before it reaches the customer, then it's critical to have packaging that retains heat as much as possible. In addition, you will have to change how you prepare the drink. The milk will have to be steamed hotter than usual, but this must be done carefully so that it doesn't taste burnt. Add customization options when you can. The ability to customize food options is more important than ever for online food ordering. Technomic notes that of consumers place high importance on being able to customize their orders, and are willing to spend more on a meal with new or interesting flavor choices. While these statistics were focused on restaurants, the same is true for e-grocery orders. over 60 percent 66 percent The more opportunities you have for customization, the happier your customers will be. Be sure only to implement as many customization options are your operation can handle, though. Remember that you can offer not only dish customization but things like meal deals and related add-ons as well. Perform consistent quality checks at every stage. Quality assurance is not unique to the e-grocery sector, but it is something that businesses should pay special attention to. Customers are expecting products that are the same or better quality as they would get in their favorite restaurant or supermarket. An American Express report found that a single bad food delivery experience can result in 33 percent of American customers switching to a competitor. Whether this is damaged products, poor service, or dissatisfaction with food quality, consumers are rather unforgiving when it comes to food quality. Online Grocery Delivery Has Its Own Unique Product Challenges The online food and grocery delivery sector is booming, but the truth is that there are plenty of operational challenges that companies can unexpectedly run into. When developing new products for e-grocery, it's important to think through the delivery process and, when in doubt, pay attention to customer feedback. There will inevitably be times you get it wrong, but each of those instances is an opportunity to learn how to improve your service for the future.

5 Lessons Learned During Online Grocery Product Development

Investing in a grocery delivery solution to build your online marketplace is a wise choice since the demand for online grocery delivery services has increased in recent years. Competition in the grocery industry is high, making it essential for startups to pay more attention to customer experience and website/app features to enhance the user experience. Entrepreneurs who are planning to start their own grocery delivery platform look for various global grocery delivery solutions. One Such Available Option is “CedCommerce.” CedCommerce provides a ready-to-launch solution to build your grocery marketplace. Founded 11 years ago, the solution offers several shopping cart plugins to import products and synchronize inventory levels. With CedCommerce you can build your eCommerce grocery website, mobile apps, multi-vendor solutions, and custom solutions. It is open-source and offers free upgrades. Cons of CedCommerce The solution offers Magento, Shopify, big commerce Woo-commerce, etc integrations which limits the customizations options. The price offered for different integrations is also a topic of concern for small and medium scale grocery delivery startups. For small businesses, it is difficult to pay monthly for the plugins, making CedCommerce suitable for entrepreneurs with a high budget and who can pay monthly payments. CedCommerce Alternatives to Build Grocery Marketplace If you consider CedCommerce, you might also be interested in knowing about similar competitors or alternatives to find the best solution for your business. Here is a complete list of solutions that are the best alternatives of CedCommerce, keeping in mind factors like features offered, app development cost, customizations offered, and other factors like data security and technical support. 1.Growcer is a multi-vendor grocery delivery solution by FATbit Technologies, empowered to launch grocery and essential businesses online. Growcer The solution comes with ready-made mobile apps for buyers and delivery staff. Growcer helps startups streamline the important and effective components of the grocery supply chain with the help of advanced tried and tested features. Industry experts consider it the best alternative to CedCommerce. The features offered by Growcer are: Customizable Solution Easy to Setup & Manage Android & iOS Buyer/Delivery Apps 12 Months Free Support Free Installation One-time fee, Lifetime License Data Security 2.Freshop is an online platform for grocers to build their grocery delivery platform. It is an NCR company, offering various eCommerce themes that bring layout flexibility with an intuitive design that makes your website look more attractive. Freshop The features offered by Freshop are: Third-Party Integrations Multi-channel Shopping Experience Grocery Apps 3.Pathover It’s an API-based software to start your online grocery delivery business. new service Grocery 360 offers an end-to-end solution to build a product catalog for the grocer, connect the catalog to the customer, and uses artificial intelligence to generate optimal schedules for delivering products. Pathover’s The features offered by Pathover are: e-Commerce Solution Fulfilment App Click and collect delivery Automated Engagement 4. 3D Cart Among the list of the best grocery e-commerce platforms, one constant name is 3D Cart. It can build an eCommerce website and app like grocery, furniture, fashion, food, etc. The attractive features offered are: Powerful eCommerce Security Multi-payment options East to View, edit, and save Carts 5. Yo!Kart Yo!Kart is again one of the best choices for developing your grocery marketplace. It’s an eCommerce platform equipped with all advanced features to launch and scale a grocery business. The features offered by Yo!Kart is: Abandoned Cart Recovery Multilingual & Multi-currency functionality Progressive Web Apps (PWA) 17+ Payment Gateways Shipping & Tax Management 6. CS-Cart CS-Cart is a multi-vendor marketplace platform that offers development services for both single-vendor and multi-vendor grocery businesses. Features like built-in designing tools, customization options, and ready-made mobile apps are offered by CS-Cart. 7. Zielcommerce Zielcommerce comes with a one-time payment option and customizable software that helps you build your online grocery delivery website and app. Zielcommerce supports both single-vendor as well as multi-vendor online grocery business. The features offered by Zielcommerce are: Customization One time cost Fully secure End to end support 8. ShopurGrocery Next on the list is Shoppers Grocery, an online grocery delivery platform that also offers a readymade app to enrich your business. The software is well-integrated with the delivery management system that provides the best ordering & delivery experience to its customers. The attractive features listed on the ShopurGrocery Website are: Customizable Mobile Apps Free Support Can add & manage multiple stores Wrap Up This blog provided insights on several alternatives of CedCommerce and the features offered by the top grocery delivery solutions.

Build an Online Grocery Marketplace: CedCommerce Alternatives

Zuleyka Strasner's honeymoon was a life-changing experience, and not just because she was newly married. What was meant to be a romantic vacation in Nicaragua became the catalyst for her transforming her lifestyle and founding her own company. The Corn Islands were beautiful, Zuleyka remembers. But the ocean was a stark reminder of the world's state of pollution and waste. "I was astounded by how much plastic and trash there was in the sea, absolutely astounded," Zuleyka says. When she returned home to San Francisco, she got rid of all single-use plastic in her home. She cleaned out her kitchen cupboards. Her grocery trips turned into three-hour adventures. And she realized exactly how challenging it was to live an environmentally conscious lifestyle. So, Zuleyka decided to take matters into her own hands. In 2018, she founded , a plastic-free online grocery store in the Bay Area of California. Zero Grocery It wasn't easy, especially since Zuleyka began without any capital. But she eventually raised $4.7 million within two years. In an episode of How I Raised it, Zuleyka tells the story of how she went from $2,500 of her own money to turning down checks in 2020. Use your connections (and don’t feel shame) When Zuleyka felt ready to begin raising money in 2018, she thought she'd meet with maybe 20 people. A few might cut her some checks and she'd be good to go, she assumed. In reality, she presented 263 pitches between September and January — a five month timespan — all on her own. Throughout the fundraising process, Zuleyka made use of her secret weapon: Connections. Since she previously worked as an operations manager at Felicis Ventures, she had the contacts she needed to set up meetings. "I had an early network, I knew a lot of VCs, I knew a lot of angels, I had made just a lot of friends because I like people. And I also have little to no shame," Zuleyka says. When one potential investor turned her down, she asked them for more names: "Each one person can unlock for me another three or four people ... You just keep that pipeline going," Zuleyka says. It was that boldness that led to her success. During that hectic first round, she raised $500,000 from six investors. Don't waste your time with those who don't care Over the course of her 263 meetings, Zuleyka spoke to a drove of potential investors. "There were some people I really tried hard to win over and over and over again," Zuleyka says. "And the honest answer is they're just not that into you … they're just not that into your company." Instead, save your energy for the people who legitimately care. For Zuleyka, that person was Charles Hudson. Hudson ( on the How I Raised It podcast), managing partner at Precursor Land Ventures, believed in Zuleyka from the get go. He seemed genuinely interested in her, how she operated, and the idea behind Zero Grocery. In the end, half of that initial $500,000 came from Hudson. who also appeared Underdogs have superpowers Zuleyka, a black trans woman from East London, is not what the majority of Silicon Valley looks like. She never brings this up in pitch meetings: "It really isn't the basis of any of the discussions that we have, nor is it the basis on which I'm building this company at all. So I don't really ascribe to any of that identitarian politics at all, but it is important for us to recognize." When it came time for Zero Grocery to hire employees, Zuleyka looked to people from a variety of backgrounds, but especially those who had struggled or suffered in some way. She values the "true underdogs" who may have been overlooked in the past. These individuals bring an intense will to succeed, which Zuleyka considers a superpower. 35X growth isn’t easy, so you have to stay resilient Zuleyka recalls times when Zero Grocery was days and even hours within shutting down completely. But she always pulled through. Her persistence was especially put to the test during the first round of fundraising, when she spent her days in and out of meetings. Not every potential investor liked her ideas; some dismissed or tore her mission up completely. But "every meeting you go into, you cannot take the baggage from the last meeting," she says. Ultimately, it was Zuleyka's belief that her company was doing something good for the world that kept her resilience intact. In 2020, the company grew 35X. By the end of the year, Zero Grocery had nearly 100 employees, up from six workers in March. A large component of the company's fundraising success — and the massive growth of its customer base — was due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With people avoiding public spaces, more and more individuals turned to online grocery shopping. And that meant more and more people found Zero Grocery. "If I could click my fingers and this would all be over tomorrow, I would do it instantly," Zuleyka says. But at the same time, she recognizes that Zero Grocery has provided a useful purpose to many: "We've at least been able to take up that responsibility to service people and service folks and enable them to not leave their homes." Zuleyka feels hopeful about the future of Zero Grocery. "Maybe it's bliss, ignorance or being blind, I'm not sure. But it's incredible what the human spirit can do," Zuleyka says. "This company, this idea, this mission is so much bigger than me." Nathan Beckord is the CEO of Foundersuite.com which makes software for raising capital. Foundersuite has helped startups raise over $3 billion in angel and venture capital since 2016. This article is based on an episode of Foundersuite’s How I Raised It podcast , a behind-the-scenes look at how startup founders raise money.

How An "Underdog" Founder Raised $4.7 Million To Build A Plastic-Free Grocery Delivery Service

This story is based on Experiencing Seattle's Amazon Go Grocery Amazon Go Grocery is the primary supermarket to offer Just Walk Out Shopping. It works the following way: you come, shop the goods you need, and simply leave. The supermarket offers all that you'd need from a local supermarket in addition to simple-to-make meals alternatives. The stores are mechanized, with clients ready to buy items without being looked at by a cashier or coming up to a self-checkout station. You need as much as an Amazon account, the free Amazon Go app, and your smartphone. You can discover the Amazon Go application in the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Amazon Appstore. As with Amazon Go convenience stores, shoppers first use the Amazon Go app to scan in as they enter the store, then shop as usual. When you're finished shopping, you're on your way. The whole idea is to transform the shopping experience by eliminating lines and checkout. This concept is available thanks to various advances, including PC vision, profound learning calculations, and sensor combination to robotize a great part of the buy, checkout, and installment steps related to a retail exchange. Sounds complicated, ha? In reality, the experience is much easier. By completely depending on existing sensors and AI to identify what products clients take, your shopping experience is taken on a whole new level. Also, the quantity of cameras is not as huge as you would imagine. Since the Amazon Go Grocery store is a full-sized market, it needs to cover a greater surface than the customary Go store, however, that doesn't imply that the thickness of cameras should be drastically extraordinary. You are probably confused. But where are the staff? According to the company, its team is a significant piece of involvement with Amazon Go Grocery. In the Seattle stores, they are available, welcoming customers at the entryway, restocking racks and the new produce territory, responding to questions, and making item proposals. Overall, the process isn’t much more different than at any other supermarket. You pack things as you go and exit when you’re all set. A receipt is sent to your email address once your visit is done and your credit card is charged. The Amazon Go Grocery concept suggests that the robotics future is about to transform our vision of the working society. Most people do realize that some jobs are about to sink into oblivion. But we shouldn’t be afraid of it, on the contrary, it’s better to embrace it and meet the automated future halfway. What others think about it? The called Amazon a “clear and present danger to millions of good jobs” in a strongly worded statement reacting to the company’s new grocery concept. United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) “The brutal truth is that Amazon is focused on one thing — eliminating as many jobs as possible to enrich one multi-billionaire, Jeff Bezos,” the union said. The UFCW represents 1.3 million workers in grocery stores, meatpacking, food processing, retail shops and other industries, and said that Amazon’s “ruthless strategy” is designed to destroy those jobs. The union encouraged politicians and voters to reject Amazon’s business model and protect “the future of work.” Amazon responded to the UFCW claim about jobs with a statement of its own on Tuesday afternoon. “It’s both incorrect and misleading to suggest that Amazon destroys jobs — the fact is that no other U.S.-based company has created more jobs than Amazon,” a spokesperson for the tech giant said. “In the U.S. alone, Amazon has created over 500,000 jobs for people with all types of experience, education, and skill levels. Amazon jobs — including at Go stores — come with great compensation and benefits, including our $15 minimum wage that is more than twice the national minimum wage.” Source: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-goes-bigger-first-amazon-go-grocery-new-seattle-store-using-cashierless-technology/ Read the whole story here: Experiencing Seattle's Amazon Go Grocery Created by Tatsiana Isakova Read more yummy stories: What's Inside Junk Food? How Come Junk Food is Still An Epidemic? Machine Learning Food Datasets Collection Meal Planning Introduction Digital Transformation of Restaurant Industry Share this story or I'll clear your browser cache. Image Credits USA Today Eater Seattle

Food Tech Stories: Will Amazon Go Grocery Improve Our Shopping?

That’s the location of the most futuristic supermarket on the planet, the Amazon Go Grocery store. Today it opened its doors to the general public for the first time, and this was my experience. Capitol Hill, Seattle. Full disclosure: I wrote my first review of Amazon Go in 2018 , when I was working at Microsoft. Today, I’m working at Amazon, but the opinions on this post are my own and do not represent Amazon in any way. I got there around 6:30pm, ready to explore Amazon’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) and image recognition algorithms. One of the biggest challenges that the original store had was dealing with fruit and produce. Every item sold was individually packaged to simplify recognition; fresh items had to be sliced and/or boxed in plastic. Since then, every time I’ve taken a visitor to the Go store I discussed with them different ways in which Amazon could solve the issue. Adding “smart scales”, connected to the same network as the cameras, was my favorite option; the cameras would detect the type of fruit the customer had chosen and the AI would match it with the weight measured by the scale. Had Amazon figured out a better solution? I was about to find out. The entrance to the store was familiar, with an Amazon employee welcoming people and helping them set up the Amazon Go app on their phones, which is used to get in. I immediately went towards the produce section and, for a second, got disappointed. There were no futuristic scales or anything out of a sci-fi movie. I found the produce and fruit baskets, and that was it. How would the AI know what I took? As it turns out, the cameras and sensors are enough! My tester mind kicked in: I grabbed a Chinese eggplant (which had a similar color to my jacket) by hiding its shape under my forearm, and placed it in my bag; I took two Roma tomatoes with one single hand; I took a sweet potato from the deep end of its produce basket (pictured below), which was definitely out of reach from the cameras. Indeed, Amazon’s solution is the most convenient one for the customer; by fully relying on existing sensors and AI to detect what produce customers take, the experience is frictionless. Much better than using “smart scales.” The best part? The AI didn’t fail and was able to accurately charge me for what I had taken. The ceiling of the Amazon Go Grocery store was as intimidating as ever, with cameras pointing in every direction, covering every corner. Cameras shaped as black boxes keep an eye on everyone who enters the store, record what they touch and where they go. Here’s a good view of the ceiling above the produce section. Interestingly, the number of cameras in the produce aisle was similar to the number in other aisles. Because the Amazon Go Grocery store is a full-sized supermarket, it has to cover a bigger surface than the regular Go store, but that doesn’t mean that the density of cameras needs to be radically different. Here’s the ceiling on a different part of the store, near the entrance. Notice that there are cameras even where the shopping carts get returned. The rest of the shopping experience is the same you can expect at a regular Amazon Go store: bag things as you go, then just walk out when you are done. A receipt is automatically sent to your email address once your visit is done and your credit card is charged. And here is where I noticed one difference: my receipt became available over two hours after I had left the store, whereas the receipts from my visits to the regular Amazon Go store were delivered within minutes of leaving. What caused the delay? Was the recording of my visit being reviewed by a human? Since the store just opened to the public, I would not be surprised if Amazon was doing quality reviews to ensure the AI works well at scale. A friend of mine joked: “ ”. He might not be wrong after all. probably they have people watching the video from different angles to count how many tomatoes you took Back in 2018, I wondered how long would it take Amazon to extend their ‘Just Walk Out’ technology to Whole Foods, their supermarket chain. This new Amazon Go Grocery experiment proves that the day might be closer than ever. By automating cashiers, the eternal question of the impact on jobs resurfaces. Is our society ready for a world where cashiers are a thing of the past? Not currently, but that doesn’t mean we should resist automation. In fact, even Amazon Go’s philosophy has been adapting to avoid excluding people who don’t have a smartphone or a credit card; cash is an accepted form of payment at these stores. Now, I’m not claiming AI will have no effect whatsoever in our working society. That would be disingenuous. I do believe that many jobs will disappear the moment the combination of robotics and AI is reliable enough and cheap enough to substitute humans. But I also believe that we need to look at this situation in the long term; jobs that today are filled by a specialized minority, will become the norm for the next generation. Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, said this about AI in 2018: “ ” I still find that statement absolutely relevant today. just a week before the first Amazon Go store opened history shows that countries that pull back don’t do well with change. So you have to embrace the change. As I left the Amazon Go Grocery store and turned the corner, a passerby jokingly exclaimed to his friend “ ” I smiled and thought to myself “ ”. the future! yes, yes it is Did you like this article? Subscribe to get new posts by email.

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Online grocery shopping is one of the fastest-growing niches of eCommerce in 2020. According to a study by Nielsen, will shop groceries online by 2024. Subsequently, consumers in the US alone will be spending $100 billion annually on online food and beverages, which is equal to every household spending about $850 annually. 70% of the consumers Businesses are aware of these stats, and to cater to the increasing demands, they too are growing by three-folds every year. Interestingly, the overall online grocery market is experiencing a CAGR of 13%, which is much more than ever-booming online travel market that currently has a CAGR of 9.5%. Who are the top players in the market in 2020? Instacart –USA Amazon Pantry and Amazon Fresh –Multi-national Big Basket, Flipkart, Amazon, and Groffer- India Tesco and Sainsbury’s –the UK Alibaba Group –China If you notice the market share in the global scenario, the biggest players in every market are the existing eCommerce giants. No doubt, they are the ones who know the market well and have the biggest brand names to capitalize on yet another niche. Nevertheless, the signs are clear; online grocery shopping and delivery is a globally trending business idea. If you are planning to start an eCommerce business in 2020, you should sell groceries online. How to start an online grocery store? Just 5–6 years ago, the answer to this question would have had a very different and expensive answer. However, today, as it’s one of the biggest trending business ideas, you don’t have to worry much about the hassles and costs to start selling groceries online. You get access to a ready-made B2B scenario and acquire everything you need without worrying much. The biggest requirement for this business idea is to understand the fundamental model and customizing it to fit your local market. Sell Grocery Online- The Business Model Most of the businesses are following one of or a hybrid of the following business models to sell grocery online in 2020: Inventory model: The platform itself stocks up the items or sources it directly from different suppliers. They receive the orders form the customers and deliver the same using an in-house or outsourced delivery network. Irrespective of the suppliers, the orders are sent to the customers with the platform’s branding. Mostly, niched and single product stores follow this model for simplicity. For example, daily-milk delivery, vegetable delivery, etc. Multi-vendor marketplace model: The platform does not manage the stocks. Rather it connects the customers with local grocery stores. The customers place the order on the website, and the website transfers them to the respective grocery stores. They manage the shipping through an in-house delivery network, where delivery personal collects the shipments from the respective store and delivers it to the customer. The platform sends the orders to the customers with the respective store’s branding. Amazon follows this model in many of the regions of its operation. Shopping model: The Shopping Model is the most prominent choice when it comes to the global market. Almost every giant follows this model in one or a hybrid form. It works more like the multi-vendor marketplace model, except the customers don’t choose the store they want to buy the product while ordering. The platform manages its in-house delivery network. Upon receiving an order, the platform transfers the details directly to its delivery personals whose job is to shop for the items and deliver them to the customers. Instacart follows this model. It even calls its delivery personals as ‘Shoppers’ who shop from stores on customers’ behalf. In fact, many existing online food delivery businesses have also extended in this model. It’s actually a great expansion, as you only need a robust delivery network and store tie-ups, which they readily have in their existing model for food delivery. Besides, the platforms can use the existing infrastructure and the business model to deliver couriers, gifts, and other items as well. Just like Swiggy in India, as shown in the above image. Selling Grocery Online- The Revenue Model Depending on your chosen business model, the niche provides several channels to make money. In fact, it has derived most of its revenue channels from the existing food delivery and multi-vendor eCommerce models. You can adopt a combination of the following channels to maximize your revenue: 1. Commission: Charge commissions from the sellers/store on every sale they get from your platform. Depending on the demand and supply chain, you can also charge different commission rates on different products and in different regions. 2. Membership: Offer a membership subscription to the customers with added benefits, such as surge-charges, priority delivery, delivery schedules, and no delivery charges. You can offer a similar membership plan to the store/partners as well to allow them to sell on your platform or get added benefits. 3. Subscription: Allow customers to subscribe to certain products for regular delivery without placing an order for them each time. Products that the customers use regularly can fit right into the model. For example, daily milk supply, weekly vegetable supply, monthly shaving supply, etc. 4. Service charges: You can ask stores/partners who haven’t subscribed to your membership to pay an additional service charge on each sale they make. This will encourage them to purchase the store membership plan to avoid the service charge. 5. Promotions: Allow stores to pay an additional fee and get boosted visibility on the home page or relevant searches. Displaying Ad banners for sellers can also fit right into this stream. You can also club these services to your store-membership plans to encourage subscriptions. 6. Merchandises: You can sell your branded merchandise and relevant products such as reusable shopping bags, Jars, bottles, small kitchen tools, etc. Tips to set up an online grocery store Irrespective of the business models and revenue streams, you need to set up your business plan to meet two vital components to run any kind of grocery shopping business: : Stock-up the inventory or tie-up with local shops or bring-in big suppliers. Product Sourcing : Maintain an in-house network or outsource it or let stores manage deliveries Product Delivery Be advised that the profit margin and opportunities to include certain revenue models depend strictly on how you manage the above-two components. So choose wisely. As per how to start an online grocery store is concerned, you have two major alternatives to build your platform. You can go for: Development from scratch by outsourcing your project, or Use a ready-made grocery delivery script and customize it You can choose from several readymade scripts. However, if I were you, I would first decide my business model and then look for a script that is closest to my preferred business model. For example, if I choose the Shopping Model, I would go for an Instacart clone script. As Instacart follows the Shopping Model, it would be economical and easier to customize an Instacart script as per my needs. Further, I would also consider the architecture of the platform and the number of solutions in the script. For running an Instacart-like grocery delivery business, I would need a responsive website, separate mobile iOS and Android apps for delivery personnel and customers, and a powerful back-end panel. Besides, I would also want the script to offer open-source code access so that I can customize the features and look in the way I want to fit my brand identity. I didn’t recommend scratch development as the business model of this niche is already popular, and there are ready-made solutions available for it. I am getting a well-to-do online grocery delivery platform as a clone script for as low as $800-$5000, why would I want to spend over $100,000, developing the same thing from scratch. Unless I have some new business model that no one in the market follows yet and I can’t even customize a script to include it, I would find a ready-made script not only economical for my project but also much quicker to start selling grocery online. Cheers!

Business Model of Online Grocery Business: How It Can Make Money

are becoming widely popular at present. The customer has switched themselves from the traditional system opining “No more trolley picking, I want it to be delivered at my home”. For a matter of fact, almost are buying grocery through online or application medium in which almost one-fifth people are aged . Surely, it is picking an up-trend and the main and simple reason for its growth is the convenience of buying and accessibility to over a wide range of products which might otherwise not be available at your nearest store. We will have a look at a few of the consumer behavior trend that has infused a positive growth into it. Grocery delivery applications 48% of people 25 to 34 Online grocery shopping sales in the United States from 2012 to 2021 Major sales of the delivery companies came from the mobile devices that point towards an increase in M-commerce. More of such purchases are a result of what is known as the impulse purchase attitude driven inside customers => With the advent of busy lifestyle and schedule, the online purchase of grocery is going on a record high with time. People prefer not to go on a store but rather prefer the grocery providers offer them the best of services while the purchase of grocery => India’s Answer: Big basket is and enables a customer to leave the drudgery of shopping for food and welcome a simple easy method for perusing and looking for basic needs. The organization as of now works from Bangalore, Mumbai, and Hyderabad and has a varied portfolio that conveys in excess of 12,000 items and more than 1,000 brands. BigBasket.com India’s biggest online grocery store The basic grocery retail store in India is developing at around 10% CAGR and is about in size while e-basic need records to just 0.1%. Inside this, the online basic supply showcase is relied upon to be about in the following years. A greater part of this market is probably going to be amassed in the urban areas in the nation. USD 400 Billion USD 10Billion In 2014, there were various new companies, for example, in this classification with every city having different neighbourhood players. The vast majority of them were not ready to manage because of different business and operational reasons, some which are as of now surely understood. The victor in this class will be one who tends to the different difficulties in conveying an incredible support of the client. ZopNow, Aaram-Shop, and Farm2Kitchen Types of Grocery Apps in the Market **Grocery chains**A staple chain, for instance, , has a tendency to have its own on-request versatility arrangement, or, in other words, a solitary store at smaller scale level activities. Wal-Mart **Aggregator**Aggregators essentially list adjacent supermarkets to a client. The client can choose one of the close-by supermarkets recorded on the application. From the online menu, he can include whatever he needs in any amount to the truck. He looks at with the truck, makes the payment with different accessible choices, and sits tight for the store to affirm the request. When the request is affirmed, he can track his request continuously until the point that it reaches his place. The obligation to convey the orderlies exclusively with the store proprietor; the aggregation only records the store and its menu on its stage. **Marketplace**A marketplace supermarket is very like a market collection stage; aside from the commercial center has its very own group of conveyance young delivery men to convey requested goods to the clients’ homes by methods for a retail mobility arrangement. It is important to know whether a particular commodity in demand may be fulfilled within the stipulated time or not. **Single store**In a single store application, the owner of the grocery shop needs proprietor commissions his very own branded application and deals with everything, from keeping up the application and keeping a refreshed online menu to conveying the request to a client and gathering cash. Certainly, this method is in its best of current use as a lot of the commission depends upon the quantity of business that is acquired from the market. Grocery Delivery Business Model Like Big Basket Big Basket constructs its success in light of the three columns to be specific outstanding customer center. Big basket offers same-day conveyance over a city, 99.3% on-time conveyance, 99.5% request fill rate and a no inquiries asked client merchandise exchange, all of which has added to high customer reliability and great client input. Basic is a 400 billion dollar addressable market in which e-grocery need represents just 0.1%. huge bushel keeps on scaling when many new businesses are eliminating their working expenses and closing activities in numerous land areas. grocery business in India Over everything, Big Basket repays a client each time it can’t convey on its guarantee in this way guaranteeing there is a reliable spotlight on increasing present expectations higher. Wide range and an assortment of items (They have over . It works on an edge of 25% on different items and more than 35% for in-house marks. Big Basket has additionally improved by offering items, for example, cut foods grown from the ground, a scope of formula blends and have as of late propelled their very own pastry shop in Bangalore that conveys bread heated to arrange) and persistent development with the assistance of innovation. 40% of their business getting through their very own brands Developing the Best Fit Model There are organizations at present adopting a . Possessed, out of town, mechanized distribution center’s stock tremendous amounts of items, and a fleet of refrigerated vans convey basic supplies to buyers on a schedule opening premise. A costly model, which 24-hour conveyance offering isn’t quick or sufficiently flexible for new customers described previously. warehouse based model Also in use by the multichannel players are the , nearby, littler distribution centers where devoted staff called “pickers” collect requests to hand over to conveyance drivers. Services show signs of improvement, as clients can be delivered quicker, and the stock is more streamlined by demand. It’s still extremely costly to account monstrous real estate ventures to just online deals, which are as yet not so big contrasted with in-store. dark stores However, at present, the is picking up fast. In this model, all you need to do is to give your customer what they need whenever they need without much worrying about the warehouse. We will have a look at some of the features of such a model: ship from the store model **Giving the same day delivery**One of the most delightful yet hard to achieve features. New customers want to purchase littler bushels, all the more every now and again: it’s vital they get it now. In this manner, there’s no requirement for putting resources into claimed huge vans, if an armada of bikes (or most extreme, autos) can carry out the activity snappier and better. 1. **Customer Engagement**It is one of the important activities if you want to sustain your acquired customer for a longer period of time. The grocery players should use mark value and showcasing spending plans to give extraordinary quality and a wide choice of items, together with focused advancement. Also, involving in their daily activities is basic to it 2. **Warehousing the shop store**Since stores are nearer to clients, new customers will sit tight less for conveyance, as inclusion is slender all through the city. Likewise, costs diminish while income and edges increment because of stock advancement. 3. **Streamlining the logistics**There is a strong need to arrange all the operational activities and set it as per the demand. Store pickers ought to collect online requests appropriate from stores’ passageways by examining the items and giving them over to drivers. 4. Typical features of an on-demand grocery app To briefly know about the customer and keep details as required Identification Factors: Social Sign-up/Sign-in User Profile Management Forgot Password Verify email and Phone Number Features that lead to a smooth shopping experience getting the right one in the right quantity Operational Features: Product Search Filter search Search Suggestions Payment methods and gateways Coupons and Discount codes Checkout Wish-list Shopping Cart Counter for quantity Designing as per customer Customer Customization: Location of the customer Address Search Pin address convenience factor The time for delivery: Slots for the pick-up time Express delivery Tracking of the delivery person Contact of the delivery person Cancellation of order and other option Taking feedback for a better performance Feedback features: Rating of services on multiple scales Rating of delivery boy Rating of product quality Writing a review to get a better feedback system Support and help Technologies involved Development Partner Selection is Vital Developing feature rich isn’t as easy as it seems infect developing a highly scalable mobile app is a complex process; thus, one need to partner with a proficient and that can build required IT infrastructure as well as an user friendly grocery delivery app that is bound with success. grocery delivery mobile application experienced mobile app development agency Top App development Partners for Grocery Delivery Business Arka Softwares Octal IT Solution 360Technosoft MindInventory Mindster Grocery Delivery App development team structure To develop a successful and efficient , a team of proficient and highly experienced professional is the ultimate requirement. Let’s have a look on Team structure you need to roll-out a robust mobile app. grocery delivery mobile app 1 Project Manager Business Analyst 2–4 app developers (Android, IOS) 1 back-end developer 1–2 UI/UX designers 1 QA engineer Delivery Manager Database manager 1 System administrator How Much Does It Cost to develop grocery delivery app Development mainly depends on required features and functionality. However, to give an estimated value, a simple grocery delivery app may cost around whereas a more sophisticated features may cost you beyond cost of grocery delivery app $10,000–30000 $345,000. Hourly development rates in different countries U.S. based developers: — $50 to $250 per hour Eastern Europe based developers: — $30 to $150 per hour South Asia based developers: — $10 to $80 per hour Technology Stack — Android, iOS, Web App App Platforms — python, Node.js, .Net, Java, Back-end — Google Map, 3rd Party Apps –Twilio, APN, Firebase Push Notifications –Nexmo, Twilio, Sinch SMS, Voice, and Phone Verification — Braintree & PayPal, Stripe, E-Wallets Payments — For everything Related to emails Mandrill –MongoDB, Cassandra Database — AWS Cloud Environment — Apache Flink, Spark Streaming Real-Time Analytics — Google Analytics, Flurry, App Annie, Appsee Traffic Analytics more > Strong App Marketing Strategy That led to success Robust marketing strategy can led your app to success if you do it in a right way. You app can gain huge benefits if you planned and executed marketing strategies efficiently. Furthermore, it is indispensable to understand that your foremost target must be the end-users of your application. The app would be dealing with people; thus, you need to conduct deep research about their mobile behavior along with relevant market before boarding on marketing strategies. research and challenges I am sure if you follow mentioned above pieces of information, you will be all set to take on the competitor app businesses and come up with a highly-functional app.

How to Develop a Grocery Delivery App like Big Basket?

Industry 4.0 technologies are rapidly changing the landscape of retail, transportation, and logistics. Technologies like big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous robots, internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, virtual/augmented reality and others are fueling these transformations. As a result, grocery shopping is at the threshold of incredible metamorphosis.  In 2017, when the online retail giant for $13.7 billion, everyone in the grocery industry realized that a new wave of e-grocery has emerged and is going to transform the entire grocery business. Even though e-grocery was not new as existing established players like Walmart and startups like Instacart were already venturing into the online grocery space, the Whole Foods purchase created a new level of awareness of things that are going to come. Today the global grocery industry understands that online retail is the future. Businesses are trying to find their path into this newly discovered land. They are seriously examining solutions on how to engage customers online, optimize inventory and deliver accurately and quickly. Amazon purchased one of the prominent grocery stores Whole Foods Challenges of e-grocery inventory management The success of an e-grocery business is fundamentally dependent on inventory management; these grocers walk the fine line between over-stocking and under-stocking. Over-stocking uses up costly warehouse space and locks up capital which may otherwise be available for other moving lines. Products decay over time and in perishables the decay is very quick, often by the end of the day. Every wastage affects the bottom line and pushes up prices which turn makes the business unproductive. On the other hand, understocking stunts the business. Nothing can be worse than turning the customer away by not being able to supply an item. In traditional e-commerce businesses, customers can pre-order products that are not in stock. But customers need grocery now! One cannot be listing cereals, dairy, fruits, vegetables, baby food, oil, detergents, personal care items as out of stock. The demand for them is instant. Traditionally Grocery businesses are high-volume, low-value in nature, and profit margins are low. Items are stocked at wholesale prices and sold in retail over a period. If a business must address a shortfall of stock by buying at retail prices to fulfill customer demand, it is ab initio unviable. Optimizing inventory is crucial for the survival of grocery industry. No wonder, the e-grocery companies are beelining for using Industry 4.0 technologies for their inventory management processes. Emerging trends in the e-grocery space Big Data Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning Today e-grocery businesses generate a significant amount of data of what was sold that can be useful to predict future trends. However, this big data requires a heavy investment of time and labor to examine and make sense out of. As a result, data analytics and machine learning are now increasingly resorted to by the businesses to extract relevant insights and make strategic business decisions. For instance, we at , use graphics processing units (GPUs) on Google Cloud to train our machine learning models. The models help us predict the daily and hourly demands. The algorithms consider the variations in parameters like the day of the week, the day of the month, the weather, holidays, traffic conditions, and other significant local events. These variances are used along with other forecasting models that account for the growth and seasonality of the business. In the same way, AI-based predictive models are being used to predict operational failures and improve warehouse management. As machine learning models get smarter with time, the systems get more efficient. There is no doubt that this trend of incorporating data analytics and machine learning is going to help the e-grocery industry immensely. Chaldal Robotics and Automation Besides maintaining inventory, physical movement of the inventory is another vexing problem for the industry as it requires a lot of human labor. Industry 4.0 technologies are coming to help the businesses, as robotic systems are taking over manual tasks. These robots are automating operations in response to customer orders, and are helping businesses build space-saving compact warehouses. Automated warehouses don’t need to waste areas as they can reach spaces that are not easy for humans to reach. There are rails between aisles for the robots to move around and fetch products or to stock them. Robots are more versatile than industrial automated assembly lines, because, they can be easily re-programmed by the designers instead of updating the entire production line. Robotics and Automation, thus go directly towards reducing the size of real estate investments. Ride-sharing and Self-driving logistics Besides warehousing, the other frontier of the challenge is getting the products delivered to customers. Groceries differ from regular e-commerce products such as books in two ways: the quick turn-around time that is expected by customers and the perishable nature of products. As an e-grocery business’s order volume grows, it needs to be able to scale its logistics system along with it, while maintaining a cold chain for the delivery of perishables such as milk, fish, and meat. This considerably increases the delivery cost that further affects the bottom line of the business. At Chaldal, we started a ride-sharing service Chalao, which uses scooters and mopeds to cater to the peak demand for grocery and perform passenger rides during off-peak hours to offset the costs. As transport technology improves, we can expect these rides to be undertaken by self-driving automatons that will further reduce the cost and improve reliability. The future of e-grocery As online grocery businesses are using the latest technology to solve supply chain, logistics and inventory management challenges, even small operators are able to scale their businesses through the use of predictive analytics and automation, thanks to the advances in Industry 4.0 technologies. Grocery has always been the problem child of E-commerce — the high demand on operational excellence and the low-margin of the products are a hard sell for many businesses, that even the giants Walmart and Amazon haven’t fully invested in these systems yet. But that’s changing with Industry 4.0 technologies which help the system function with positive unit economics, and this is apparent from the number of e-grocery ventures that have emerged around the world.

Hi-Tech Waves in World of Grocery

By now you have surely noticed that grocery prices are falling. The last time I went to the store a dozen eggs cost $0.79. Part of the reason is that certain commodities are being overproduced, which is driving down prices. There are fewer exports going to China and other overseas markets and the cost of transporting goods is down. This is a good thing for your grocery bill, but it also means that grocery stores are going to have to compete for your business in other ways. This is where tech comes in: customers want convenience more than anything when it comes to grocery shopping, and things like online ordering, curbside pickup, and delivery are looking better than ever! Amazon isn’t the only retailer breaking into the grocery delivery game. Walmart is currently working on rolling out in-home delivery — yes, where people bring your groceries inside and put them away for you when you are not home — in addition to their already very popular curbside grocery pickup. But this is not the only way tech is bringing convenience to your grocery shopping experience. Retailers like Amazon, Sam’s Club, and Kroger are using smartphone apps to allow customers to scan their groceries as they shop and skip the checkout line. Learn more about how tech is winning the from this infographic! grocery wars

Hacking the Grocery Store Wars With Tech

Starting an e-grocery startup in India. Grocery shop is something that everyone needs, food is the basic necessity and so are the Grocery Shops. Selling food items in India is the most profitable business of all time, this is the only business that you can start almost anywhere and get good profits. But how to deal with this new era of online shopping people? The answer is to get your shop online. We live in a world of lazy people and most of the people doesn’t like to shop things like groceries or daily food items but as stated above it’s a necessity that none can ignore. Big-basket e-Grocery Startup. But why should you get an online grocery store? Imagine you already own a grocery store in your locality and you are good enough to fulfill your daily local customers’ need and get profits. Hence you are happy with your business but what if I say that you can earn 10 times more profit than your current profit? After the jio revolution, everyone has started to realise the power of internet in India. Online shopping sites provide you anything you need like buying clothes, ticket reservation, buying furniture, electronics, whatever you need, you can find online in reasonable rates. Now, if you are not convinced till now, lets scratch some more ways to convince you. Lazy day, none wants to shop but feeling hungry. This is the common issue of every third Indian. We like to sit and get whatever we need right at our doorsteps. We can call or order online for the things we need and get it as soon as possible. Help the lazy Indians and they will get converted to your everyday customers from new customers. You wont need a store but just a warehouse. Local Grocery stores need a shop and a warehouse but as an e-grocer shop owner you will just need a warehouse in a specific area. This will not only help you to save money but will also be easy to manage. Big online Grocery stores are still not in every part. This is big. India is a huge country and groceries are needed by everyone but the big e-grocery sites are still not able to get into every part of India but you being a local e-grocer can acquire your whole local area. What you need to do is to get your business online and provide your customers your basic contact details with all the items you provide all at a same place that is your website. Moreover, you may also provide them an easy way to select items, checkout and get whatever they chose at their doorsteps. Be ahead of your local competitors. Local grocery stores have the biggest competition everywhere. What if if someone else buys the same product at the same price but not from you but from the store just beside yours? You’ll definitely not feel the best. Use your brain and get your store online so that the person will never go to your competitor’s place but rather he/she will buy it sitting at their homes directly from you. Woohhooo! Attract people with showing off your best offers. Who doesn’t like the free stuffs? Attract more people to be your regular customers with offers like Buy One Get One Free. This is the tactic every huge Super Market Owners use. You must have heard of Big Bazar offers Buy this and get this free. They mostly advertise these kinda offers in local newspaper but you being more intelligent can show off your offers in a better way. Despite of being a small and local Grocery Startup you can attract more people than those huge brands. None thinks of the brands in case of packed food items but what they think of is how much they save. Just roll your dice and win the game. Get easily connected to your customers. This is the biggest advantage of internet, it makes interactions easier. You can easily know your customers, talk to them and know the pluses and minuses of your service. This can improve you a lot and help you get even bigger.than ever. No need to worry about the old method of ‘Bargain’. With an e-grocery startup whenever someone orders through your website the money goes directly into your account and hence there is no issue of bargain. The person will need to buy the item as per the written price. But be honest and provide the right items at the right prices. Summary So don’t think a lot, if you are planning to have an e-grocery startup then this is the right time. Right now India is the biggest consumer of Internet all over the world and there is not that much of competition at the local level in this field. We would love to help you in every possible way. Start planning right now and if you need and help regarding the setup of advertisement of you startup contact me. Did you like this? Well if yes then hit the image below because I have tons more to show you.

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plans to launch cashier-less grocery store name Amazon Go. Basically you walk in, you log in from your phone. Then whatever you touched, even whatever you put back is recorded in the ‘system’ of the store. So after you got the stuff you want, just walk out the store. You will be charged automatically. hmmm… Wonder how human like that idea. Amazon Last time I went to downtown San Francisco, the epicenter of technology and asked people on the street how they like the idea of the cashier-less grocery store. And got a feeling that everybody there is so ready for automation, AI etc. That is very good, but I do wonder how people outside of the tech world react to that. Even when I was interviewing in San Francisco, I hear people say they although they work in tech, they still love the human interaction of life such as talking to cashiers in grocery store. So it got me interested why they people like to do grocery, or how exactly they feel about the human interaction with grocery shopping. So this time, I went to Trader Joe’s in Fremont, and ask why they like shopping there, and how they like the idea of the cashier-less grocery store. Here is the interview: Results: Most shoppers there love to interact with cashiers, or the social side of shopping. Other retailers can learn from this too if they want to stay competitive from the e-commerce side. E-commerce can provide the convenience that retailers cannot compete, so retailers can take advantage of being able to care more of their customers from a human aspect. Trader Joe’s staff love their community, and love to create a better community. So that seems like a major reason their customers are coming back. Last but not least, Amazon, just at the customer said in the , you can do better at human interaction side of the business. interview

Video Interview with grocery shoppers.

Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to a quarter of a century in prison after he and his lawyers failed to convince a U.S. district judge that the former crypto mogul was an autistic altruist who never intended to harm anybody. The judgment itself is pretty damning, and while SBF's lawyers plan to appeal, there's a lot to unpack here. First, regardless of how the appeal process plays out, Sam Bankman is probably going to prison for a long, long time. And despite attempts at maintaining his innocence, the prosecution's evidence points to the contrary. Second, Sam Bankman-Fried's fall from grace is not so much about what happened but it happened. For those that don't remember, everything was going A-OK at Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange, FTX, until he decided to pick a fight with Binance founder and former Chief Executive Changpeng "CZ" Zhao which led the latter to (allegedly) cause a bank run that resulted in the demise of the third-largest crypto exchange in the US. how Third, there is something inherently wrong with the crypto industry, as it always seems to attract some of the most dubious personalities in the world. Speaking of which, Binance's Zhao may have had the last laugh following the FTX debacle but his victory has been pretty short-lived since he has had to step down as the CEO of the world's largest crypto exchange. This decision came as part of a guilty plea with the US Department of Justice over a number of charges, including money laundering. The only exchange that has been able to weather most, if not all, of the turbulence so far has been Coinbase and its Chief Executive Brian Armstrong. Look, I don't know what it is with the Lex Luthor lookalike, but Armstrong clearly knows how to navigate through these troubling times to come out on top. Anyway, the internet did what it always does when things like these happen: pump and dump memecoins, leaving some with big wads of cash and most with a worthless token. Now, if you're wondering whether the sentence is fair, first of all, nothing in life is fair, but second: a lot of the agree that things have looked differently for SBF if he had actually managed to show some actual remorse over what happened and owned up to his mistakes. media reports might But since SBF kept skirting around the issue, and the judge in the case noticed, he's been sentenced to prison for two-and-a-half decades. I'll keep you posted on the appeal proceedings. Sorry to break your immersion, hackers. We have an important update to share. The Tech Company News Brief aka the newsletter you’re currently reading is going to go through an overhaul in the near future with a new theme and a new name. Keep your eyes peeled! We’re very excited to show you the new format (soon!). Amazon to Say Buh-Bye to Cashierless System 💸 If you were hoping to hop in-n-out of an store in the US, I've got bad news for you. Amazon The world's foremost authority on everything eCommerce has decided that it wants nothing to do with the technology (which it lovingly called Just Walk Out), at least in the US. According to , Amazon will be stamping out the system from its Fresh grocery stores and replacing it with the Dash Cart instead which allows buyers to scan items as they go. media reports Amazon ranked #9 on HackerNoon's Tech Company Rankings this week. 👋 You’re reading HackerNoon's , a weekly collection of tech goodness that combines HackerNoon's proprietary data with internet trends to determine which companies are rising and falling in the public consciousness. Subscribe to receive the newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday. Tech Company News Brief here complete Canada Comes After Social Media Big Boys The good folks in Canada have had it with social media companies' shenanigans, so much so that they're taking them to court. The Toronto District School Board has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms, TikTok owner ByteDance, and Snapchat for allegedly creating addictive products that are harmful to a younger audience (think adolescents and teens) and has sought 4.5 billion Canadian dollars in damages (roughly $3.3 billion US). This wouldn't be the first time social media companies are blamed for a decline in youth mental health, with research, both independent and commissioned by these companies themselves, showing a clear link between the two. Whether the companies actually end up paying for the damage they've caused (or might be causing) is yet to be seen. Meta's and ranked #2 and #4 this week, respectively. Facebook Instagram In Other News.. 📰 Bitcoin ETF Trading Volumes Tripled in March as the Largest Cryptocurrency Hit Record Highs — via CoinDesk Opera allows users to download and use LLMs locally — via TechCrunch US government review faults Microsoft for ‘cascade’ of errors that allowed Chinese hackers to breach senior US officials’ emails — via CNN Microsoft, Quantinuum claim breakthrough in quantum computing — via Reuters AI security is a new battle between employers and workers, survey shows — via Axios Zoom and Salesforce stand to benefit from Microsoft’s unbundling of Teams and Office — via CNBC And that's a wrap! Don't forget to share this newsletter with your family and friends! See y'all next week. PEACE! ☮️ — Sheharyar Khan, Editor, Business Tech @ HackerNoon *All rankings are current as of Monday. To see how the rankings have changed, please visit HackerNoon's page. Tech Company Rankings

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