Lockdowns catapulted grocery delivery services to success in many cities around the world, with apps like Getir, Weezy, and Gorillas offering to send goods to people’s doors in just ten minutes. But is lightning-fast delivery sustainable? And are there other ways to offer convenience without speed?

Long queues and stock shortages have made shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic no easy task. The Supermarket Check-In app aims to simplify this part of daily life, monitoring waiting times and item availability at stores across the UK so people can make their trips as efficient as possible.

The way that people do their grocery shopping has been changed, potentially forever, as a result of the pandemic. Morrisons has made big strides to become a market front-runner thanks to innovations like telesales lines, subscription boxes, and support for children on free school meals.

As viral transmission concerns are expected to linger after the pandemic ends, grocery stores are transforming how people shop in them. Nomitri has designed a shopping cart app to offer a replacement to traditional human-operated checkouts and minimise human-to-human interactions.