HometownGrocers.com provides Online Shopping services to over 100 Hy-Vee stores in the mid-west.
NORTHFIELD, MN – January 4, 2002 – HometownGrocers.com, a premier provider of Online Shopping services to brick and mortar grocery retailers, is currently providing Online Shopping services to over ninety (90) Hy-Vee grocery stores through out the mid-west with an additional fifteen (15) Hy-Vee stores coming online in first quarter 2002. Hy-Vee is the U.S. leader in the number of retail grocery stores providing Online Shopping Services.
HometownGrocers.com started online services in the first Hy-Vee retail grocery store in August 1997. The initial Online Shopping Service was offered to consumers using HometownGrocers.com Automated Call Center. Today, HometownGrocers.com provides Online Shopping Services to Hy-Vee stores in seven (7) mid-west states in both Hy-Vee’s large and small market areas. Hy-Vee avoided the Online Shopping warehouse model and elected to provide consumers Online Shopping Services from their existing store base. Hy-Vee provides both pick up and delivery services to consumers and uses HometownGrocers.com Staffed Call Center, Automated Call Center, and Internet consumer ordering methods. One hundred (100) percent of Hy-Vee’s customers have access to their Online Shopping Services without any increase in labor costs to the stores or Hy-Vee.
Hy-Vee stores use HometownGrocers.com Express Shopper feature for their order fulfillment process. Express Shopper was designed for individuals, who have limited computer knowledge, to easily process multiple online grocery orders simultaneously. The Express Shopper feature minimizes store labor by allowing store personnel to shop, bag and checkout up to ten (10) orders at one time in the store's aisles. Express Shopper saves the labor cost of baggers and checkers by eliminating the need to check out orders through the store's point-of-sale.
HometownGrocers.com has a single focus of providing online grocery shopping services to brick and mortar retailers. HometownGrocers.com supports stores inventory management, store accounting procedures and provides labor free online shopping services to 100 percent of the retailers' customers. HometownGrocers.com provides extensive labor savings for retail grocery stores with the use of simple, but sophisticated, Staffed Call Center, Automated Call Center, Internet, and consumer scanner ordering; consolidated order fulfillment, automated check-out, financial controls and consumer and store Help Desk Support. HometownGrocers.com’s over eighty years of retail grocery automation and operations experience provides in-depth knowledge and understanding of the diverse retail grocery requirements.
HometownGrocers.com’s services are being provided to over one hundred (100) Hy-Vee stores nationwide. In addition, HometownGrocers.com has recently been selected as an authorized SuperValu national Online Shopping vendor and is providing services to SuperValu, Nash Finch, and Spartan stores.
HometownGrocers.com is located in Northfield, Minnesota. For additional information on HometownGrocers.com or the services that they offer visit their Web site http://www.HometownGrocers.com or call (507) 663-1570.
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