Foodservice

• Domino’s Pizza Inc. will begin testing self-driving vehicles for pizza delivery to random customers in Ann Arbor powered by Ford Fusion Hybrid Autonomous Research vehicles staffed with researchers to gauge customer response.

• Little Caesars Enterprises Inc. began testing mobile order and payment for pizza via an automated self service station dubbed the Reserve-N-Ready platform.

• TGI Fridays has experienced a 30 percent growth in take-out sales that the company attributes to last year’s inception of online ordering.

Grocery/Convenience

• Aldi began offering a pilot grocery delivery program with Instacart in the Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles markets in August 2017.

• SUPERVALU is providing value to its wholesale customers with combo of IT and product supply services while attempting to offer the combination to more retailers.

Discount/GM

• Walmart Stores Inc. has reached 1,000 locations of its click-and-collect Grocery Pickup service. Walmart launched online ordering in 2013 in the Denver market, and has continued to grow its online grocery service.

• Williams-Sonoma will begin accepting digital wallet payments from money-transferring service Venmo for bridal registry purchases.