Why Supermarkets Are So 20th Century

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No one likes grocery shopping — you wander the aisles, feel up produce, and dump cans of SpaghettiOs and heads of lettuce into a cart. Then you have to trudge home — or at least to your car — with bags weighing you down on both sides. Some argue that it’s easier just to eat out all the time — that’s certainly a popular mentality in New York — and others might just order in via Seamless. The U.S. grocery market is a $538 billion industry, and only 2% of that revenue comes via the web — a share that’s far less than in the pet supply, book, baby products and cosmetics industries, according to Forrester. Read the full story at Mashable.

About Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is the Professor of Advanced Media in Residence at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and CEO of The Palmer Group, a consulting practice that helps Fortune 500 companies with AI strategy, implementation and governance, as well as technology, media and marketing. Named one of LinkedIn’s Top Voices in Technology, he is a bestselling author, covers tech and business for Fox 5’s Good Day New York, is a regular commentator on CNN, and writes the popular daily business blog Think About This. Follow @shellypalmer or visit shellypalmer.com.

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