Christian’s new role gives him oversight of Big Y’s e-commerce platform, which currently includes relationships with Instacart for grocery home deliveries and DoorDash for prepared meal home deliveries. As well as these services, he will launch Big Y’s MyPicks Online ordering. With MyPicks, customers will be able to order their groceries online for curbside pickup at their preferred store or for home delivery. MyPicks will make use of a fully automated grocery fulfillment center attached to the Chicopee, Massachusetts, Big Y. Using cutting-edge robotics, the 12,000-square-foot center will pick as many as 7,000 online orders a day for delivery to customers.
In common with Colin, Christian joined Big Y at the age of 14 as a service clerk. After a stint after college as a sales and marketing representative for a Providence, Rhode Island-based insurance company, he came back to Big Y as a store director trainee in 2014, going on to work as a store director in the Southampton and Wilbraham, Massachusetts, stores before being tapped as store manager at Big Y wine and liquor banner Table & Vine’s flagship location in West Springfield, Massachusetts. In 2019, Christian became a district sales and merchandising mentor for a 15-store district, in which capacity he was responsible for all sales, merchandising and store team development across all departments, while continuing to oversee Table & Vine flagship operations.
Colin and Christian are grandsons of Big Y co-founder Gerald E. D’Amour, and sons of president and CEO Charles L. D’Amour.
One of the largest independently owned supermarket chains in New England, Springfield, Massachusetts-based Big Y operates 85 locations throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut, including 71 supermarkets, Fresh Acres Market, Table & Vine Fine Wines and Liquors, and 12 Big Y Express gas and convenience locations, with almost 12,000 employees. The company is No. 72 on The PG 100, Progressive Grocer’s 2020 list of the top food and consumables retailers in North America.