- Sobeys, Metro and Loblaws, who make up 60% of Canada’s supermarket industry have all announced further moves towards catering to online grocery shopping in 2021
- Sarah Joyce, senior vice-president of ecommerce at Sobeys said “We are seeing growth rates today that we expected to see three or four years from now”
- Sobeys, who opened a CA$100 million customer fulfillment facility in Vaughan last year, saw ecommerce sales rise 241% in the previous quarter when compared to 2019
- However, some experts have estimated that as lockdown measures are relaxed, growth of online grocery shopping will slow, with Marion Chan of TrendSpotter Consulting predicting that online sales will be between 20 to 25% in the long term
Source : https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/grocery-delivery-pandemic-1.5869903
