SN Top 10: Costco, Winn-Dixie, Amazon top the week’s headlines
November 23, 2020
![Clockwise from top left: A Costco store's grand opening; an Instacart personal shopper bag; an Amazon Pharmacy delivery; a Florida Winn-Dixie grand op Clockwise from top left: A Costco store's grand opening; an Instacart personal shopper bag; an Amazon Pharmacy delivery; a Florida Winn-Dixie grand op](https://eu-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt58a1f8f560a1ab0e/blte2a58877fdb098d1/6683fe398ec40483b563016c/Supermarket-News-Top-10.gif?width=1280&auto=webp&quality=95&format=jpg&disable=upscale)
In this week’s recap of the Top 10 most popular Supermarket News articles, Costco paying stockholders a $10-per-share special dividend ranked as the week’s top story. The aggregate payment for the extra dividend was pegged at $4.4 billion. Among other stories in this week’s gallery:
Instacart reportedly started planning a $30 billion IPO;
Winn-Dixie cooked up new concepts in its latest Florida stores; and
Amazon entered the prescription-drug market with Amazon Pharmacy.
In other news, Ahold Delhaize announced plans to buy online grocer FreshDirect, Albertsons started accepting SNAP EBT payment for curbside-pickup orders and online grocery continued to be a mainstay for COVID-concerned consumers, according to an Oracle Grocery Retail survey.
Other top stories:
Hy-Vee said it would hire 10,000 workers to prepare for the holiday rush;
C&S Wholesale and SpartanNash CEOs were among FMI’s new board members; and
Walmart doubled its personal-shopper count for the holiday season.
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