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Apply by Feb. 3 to meet merchants from Ahold Delhaize USA brands, including Food Lion and Giant.
Peapod Digital Labs opened applications for a program that helps diverse-owned brands get introduced to the companies of grocery company and parent Ahold Delhaize USA.
Through a partnership with Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing (ECRM) and RangeMe, Peapod Digital Labs will host four virtual events throughout the year.
At the event, the suppliers will meet with merchants of Ahold Delhaize USA brands to learn about their products and expertise in a virtual showcase event. Ahold Delhaize brands include Food Lion, Stop & Shop, Giant and Hannaford.
Peapod Digital Labs will also offer pre-event coaching to participants in partnership with WBENC certified, women-owned business PowerToPitch. Suppliers selected for the meetings will be offered a 75-minute group coaching session and a 30-minute one-on-one coaching session to help hone their pitch.
"We’re excited to offer professional coaching for select candidates to help them approach the meetings with a clear and compelling pitch,” said Andjela Petrovic, director of supplier diversity for PDL, in a statement. “We worked with PowerToPitch during our Incubator program in 2022 and participants found the support and resources tremendously beneficial. It’s an investment to develop a skill that lasts well beyond this one meeting or event. We hope this program will continue to support and facilitate new relationships between diverse-owned suppliers and the companies of Ahold Delhaize USA.”
This is the second year that the program will be held. Last year, merchants met with over 100 suppliers, and 20 new suppliers were fully onboarded to one of the Ahold Delhaize USA brands. Others are still in the onboarding process.
Certified, minority-, LGBTQ-, woman-, veteran- and disability-owned businesses with products listed in the application can apply here by Friday, Feb. 3, for consideration.
The first event is scheduled for April 10-19, 2023, with subsequent events expected in June, August, and October.
While it works to expand on the supplier side, ecommerce arm Peapod Digital Labs is also ramping up its offerings to merchants. The company announced last year that it will build an in-house retail media network with a unified on-site and off-site platform, as well as a dashboard for campaign results.
The partnership brings together subscriptions and shoppable content.
A Wendy's ad on Roku. (Courtesy photo)
Roku and DoorDash are teaming up to connect TV and food delivery in one experience.
The news: Roku and DoorDash announced a new partnership that will allow people to order food delivery from a shoppable ad on their TV. Along with the capabilities being put in place by the tech platforms, Wendy’s is also adding shoppable content that will provide a discount on ordering at launch.
How does it work? For Roku account holders, there are three parts to the partnership:
DashPass: DoorDash is providing a complementary six-month DoorDash subscription. Called DashPass, this provides $0 delivery fees on orders from restaurants, grocery and retail stores on DoorDash’s marketplace.
Shoppable ads: Roku viewers will be able to click from their remote to order straight from ads on Roku via offers provided through DoorDash. For the first year, DoorDash will be the exclusive ad solution provider for restaurants on its marketplace to buy shoppable ads on Roku. With this, restaurant advertisers will also be able to work with DoorDash to attribute, target and measure TV streaming ads.
Wendy’s: The companies said Wendy’s also upped its digital capabilities as part of this partnership. The chain will make offers available through the shoppable ads. At launch, it will provide $5 off any Wendy’s purchase of $15 or more.
Key quote from Rob Edell, GM and head of consumer engagement at DoorDash: “While this offer unlocks DashPass benefits and perks for Roku users everywhere, it also provides our merchant partners with an opportunity to promote DoorDash offers through TV streaming. Consumers can conveniently and affordably get the best of their neighborhood delivered to their door, while brands can reach diners at the right time and drive instant conversion from the comfort of the living room.”
The partnership is a sign that several different strategies being employed in digital media and commerce are converging:
Streaming and delivery: Watching TV and ordering food is a common behavior. In fact, Roku research indicates that one in three users order takeout or food delivery weekly. The partnership shows how there is room for the platforms that provide each of these distinct services to work together. It's a reminder not just to monitor how customers use your product, but what other products and services they use with it.
Shoppable ads and subscriptions: As digital commerce grows, there’s interest in reducing the steps between when a user thinks about making a purchase, and when they actually click “Buy.” This partnership does that in a couple of ways. With shoppable ads, Roku viewers can order directly from their TV, and even within the show they are watching. Switching devices may be a barrier, however small, to a sale. On DoorDash’s side, putting a subscription in place means users don’t have to think about logging in or consider delivery fees. This shows how introducing more interactive capabilities to streaming can open up new opportunities for commerce. Roku data shows that 36% of its users are interested in receiving interactive offers, such as a scannable QR code or text message. Such capabilities allow users to take action without switching screens.
Retail media and CTV: On the advertising side, the partnership is connecting DoorDash’s ad network with Roku’s content capabilities. DoorDash operates as a marketplace, while Roku serves ads during streaming content. Both have powerful customer data. DoorDash has purchase-level, or first-party, data. Roku has data on millions of customers, and the ability to reach them while they are doing the common activity of watching TV. The platforms also both have the ability to target users and measurement capabilities that can make this whole system even more powerful. While this partnership sets out one way the companies will work together immediately, it’s a safe bet that the partners will find other areas of mutual benefit to explore.
Further reading: It’s just the latest move by Roku to bring shoppable content to the platform. Last year, the streamer partnered with Walmart to pilot direct ordering straight from shoppable ads.
Is Amazon next? Break down the individual parts of this partnership: Subscription, delivery network, marketplace, streaming platform, advertising capabilities. Amazon owns each of these, and it even has a restaurant delivery partnership with Grubhub. Will it put these parts to work in a similar way? The better question may be, how long until it does so?