LONDON: British online grocer Ocado has seen a pick-up in enquiries from US supermarket groups interested in possible partnership deals in the wake of Amazon’s US$13.7bil deal to buy Whole Foods, its boss said yesterday.
Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner said Amazon’s purchase of the upmarket grocer had made existing bricks and mortar supermarket players in the United States think harder about the competition they will be facing in the coming years.“Therefore we’ve seen increased interest in our (technology) solution from players in the US,” he said after Ocado reported a 2.7% rise in first half core earnings. Ocado pioneered the use of software and automation to pick online grocery orders in huge warehouses, rather than by hand in stores.
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