Albertsons

Danielle Crop has been named the new senior vice president and chief data officer at the retailer.

Albertsons will partner with Google to make shopping easier and more convenient by developing a wide range of omnichannel customer services.

The Boise, Idaho-based retailer’s milestone comes as it opens appointments at its pharmacies to teachers as part of the Biden administration’s push to vaccinate educators. 

Albertsons’ Safeway banner is testing out a remote-controlled delivery cart via a partnership with last-mile logistics company Tortoise.

Albertsons’ federal partnership to offer vaccines from the federal supply in five states joins efforts already underway to help states administer their vaccine allocations.

Albertsons’ same-store sales were up 12.3%, digital sales exceeded 200% year-over-year growth and revenue was $15.4 billion for the quarter.

Albertsons launched an automated, contactless grocery pickup kiosk at a Jewel-Osco store in Chicago.

For its second quarter of fiscal 2020, Albertsons reported digital sales growth of 243%, identical-sales growth of 13.8% and revenue growth of 11.2% to $15.8 billion.