Case Study: Albertsons powers real-time grocery promotions with MongoDB Search on Atlas

Albertsons simplifies promotions for 35 million weekly customers with MongoDB

Albertsons, one of the largest retail employers in the United States with a family of well-known grocery brands, faced the challenge of delivering real-time, personalized promotions to millions of customers amid economic pressures for greater value. To power its massive promotions engine and share discount offers in milliseconds, Albertsons turned to MongoDB, specifically utilizing MongoDB Search on Atlas.

Using MongoDB Search on Atlas, Albertsons integrated their database and search capabilities into a single unified platform. This solution allowed them to eliminate a separate search engine and in-memory cache, simplifying their architecture. The result is a system that manages over 50,000 unique products across more than 2,000 stores, delivering half a million promotions at any given time to millions of end users with sub-100ms retrieval.

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