Ahold’s Mobile Apps

Ahold USA is unusual among food retailers for having not one but two separate mobile apps. Ahold USA’s Scan It! mobile app, which enables loyalty shoppers to use their phones to scan and bag groceries and then transfer the completed order to a checkout lane for payment, has been rolled out to about 270 Stop & Shop locations; these are the locations that have similar functionality in a store-provided scanning device. Both the app and device also receive in-store targeted offers ...

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jimbray4
on Mar 18, 2013

One of the reasons why Ahold has been so successful with mobile apps is that Ahold's management knows that you can not wait for innovation, you have to drive it. This means taking risk in order to achieve great rewards. Ahold places a high level of importance on the customer total shopping experience.

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