Canadian Tire ramps up its ever-growing and crucial e-commerce strategy, introducing giant self-serve pick-up towers in select stores in Canada.

Loblaw is expanding its online grocery business by adding 200 more pick-up locations across Canada and introducing home delivery to five more markets.

Buying an Xbox or smartphone from eBay is routine in 2015. Getting groceries online remains anything but -- with little appetite from shoppers to change.

Supermarkets are testing ways to sell grocery orders over the web as big retailers bet consumers will soon shift some of their food-buying habits online.