Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2024

In a supermarket in southern China, live fish swim around in a glass tank bearing a QR code for customers to scan for information about where the fish is from and details of provenance and sustainability in its farming or capture. Stores are a real environment for people to get together, and that is most important.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

Amidst multiple inquiries into the price-setting practices of Australian supermarkets, Woolworths and Coles are seemingly leading with more specials and promotions than ever. Choice is looking for the real deal Supermarkets are where Australians feel cost-of-living pressures the most, and food inflation is far from a myth.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For Jim Ritchie, founder and strategy partner at branding agency US+US, the price drop class action and ACCC legal action against the Australian supermarket points to something much larger. “As The unspoken pact is clear: Give consumers what they want at a fair price, and we’ll tolerate the massive profits you rake in.”

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The trolley, dubbed Caper Cart, is a collaboration between Coles and US supermarket technology company Instacart, and it is scheduled to be trialled at Coles Richmond Traders in Melbourne early next year. The Coles Smart Trolley has an interactive digital screen that displays in-store specials and product aisle locations. “We

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

CEQ’s network of 29 stores offers many of the core grocery items found in a traditional supermarket – ranging from fresh produce to non-disposable items – to large items such as washing machines, but presented in smaller store formats. It’s not a secret when you look at Indigenous health compared to mainstream health, it’s very different.

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2024

This week, the Senate Committee on Supermarket Prices made 14 recommendations for the Government to consider amending the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to end the alleged price gouging of the major supermarkets. This will allow consumers to align and ‘buycott’ from a supermarket that promotes their values.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) allegations that Woolworths and Coles breached the Australian Consumer Law by making misleading claims about discounts come as retailers head into their most promotional period of the year and serve as a warning to the wider industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2020

After years of shaking up every vertical from print media to automotive sales and financial services, digital transformation is finally becoming an imperative on supermarket and retail shelves. For instance, large digital “end cap” signs can be placed at the end of every aisle to draw attention to a particular promotion.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 15, 2024

Asda is launching the world’s first supermarket spa to celebrate the arrival of its new Health Menu range, which aims to “bring simplicity and affordability back to health” The limited time spa will offer an array of holistic health treatments paired and price-matched with products from the new range.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2023

Supa IGA Karabar is an independent supermarket that sells a range of groceries and liquor along with an attached liquor store (trading as Liquor Boss) located in Karabar, NSW. The local Supa IGA competes with its different product mix, service offering and store amenity, and different promotional cycles. “The

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2024

However, at last week’s Delivering the Future event in Nashville, Tennessee, the retail giant announced major plans to combine choice and convenience for its customers. The way we see it: It’s still Day 1,” stated Tony Hoggett, senior vice president of worldwide grocery stores at Amazon. asked Varadarajan.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2024

Discount supermarket retailer Lidl U.S. Kerr is returning for a second stint at Lidl U.S., where he was one of the first 50 employees, and he’ll be responsible for driving a holistic customer experience using consumer insights, marketing, loyalty and promotions. Kerr is returning for a second stint at Lidl U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Through the strategic partnership, nearly 900 stores will use RFMN’s dynamic Digital Window Signs to promote weekly sales programs, special events, promotional ads and other ad messages, powered by Save A Lot’s retail media network.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Three more supermarket chains will connect their electronic shelf label (ESL) hardware to the Carrot Tags pick-to-light functionality from Instacart , making it easier for Instacart pickers — and eventually for consumers themselves — to find the products on their shopping list.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Lidl and M&S have retained their crowns as the UK’s fastest-growing supermarkets over the last 12 weeks. The news comes as the NIQ found total till sales at UK supermarkets saw continued growth of 6.6% boost as poor weather kept shoppers at home in January, while in-store shopping only grew 5.3%. in January.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

Despite aggressive discounting and competitive ‘members only’ offers for loyalty programme customers, traditional supermarkets continue to lose market share to discounter rivals, Aldi and Lidl, according to the latest research by Pricer, the in-store automation and communication solutions provider. However, last month Which?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The appointment of Amanda Bardwell as Woolworths Group’s next managing director and CEO, effective September 1, marks a historic moment for the parent company of Woolworths Supermarkets and Big W, which reported nearly $65 billion in sales last financial year. per cent of CEOs, 35.1 He announced his retirement just a few days later.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 16, 2024

Stop & Shop will shutter 32 supermarkets in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island by Nov. The retailer, a division of Ahold Delhaize , will still operate more than 350 stores in this region following the closures, and associates at the affected stores will be offered alternate positions with the company. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

With COVID-19 cases dropping in 2022, shoppers returned to physical stores, including supermarkets, while maintaining some of their e-shopping habits acquired in the pandemic. And in 2024, with shoppers visiting different supermarket stores and chains, and with greater frequency, we’re witnessing a new trend: the polychannel shopper.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Associated Food Stores (AFS), a wholesaler and cooperative serving nearly 450 supermarkets in the Intermountain West region, has adopted customer engagement, personalization and analytics solutions from Birdzi. Additionally, the Birdzi analytics suite can provide customer behavior and campaign performance insights.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Just five years ago, some of the biggest brands in the Australian retail landscape were effectively e-com deniers – or at least digital laggards. Both programs put customer data firmly at the centre of the entire retail operation. Plus, it seems everyone has an app. And there’s more to come.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Angus McDonald, CEO of BBQ retailer Barbeques Galore, will step down from the role at the end of this year for undisclosed reasons. “I There are very few things more rewarding than seeing so many who have been promoted through the organisation during this time, achieving both personal and professional growth.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

The company said staff absenteeism related to isolation requirements during the Omicron outbreak led to “availability challenges and short-term impacts on Coles’ promotional program and disruptions to stores and distribution centres”. The supermarket division recorded $8 billion in sales, also up by 3.9

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Some UK supermarkets are “blatantly disregarding” rules aimed at tackling childhood obesity by placing restrictions on where products high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS) can be placed. The research comes a year after the government introduced regulations on HFSS food promotion and placement in England.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2021

These insights are a powerful way to gauge consumer demand for sustainable products with current and past sales data, identify the most profitable promotional strategies, and minimize markdowns and waste from the start. Increase promotional effectiveness. Better track, monitor and gauge customer demand.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2022

per cent in the March quarter – the highest level since 2009 – eyes have fallen on supermarkets to see how they handle the rising cost of stocking their shelves. Cain said Coles is already seeing similar behaviour within the supermarket itself. The other major problem currently facing supermarkets is an issue of stock availability.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 10, 2024

UK supermarket sales are set to exceed 13bn for the first time over the four weeks of December, driven by a surge in premium product lines as shoppers gear up for Christmas, new data from Kantar reveals. Multibuy promotions have remained flat, but spending on price-cut offers has grown by 14%, worth 355 million more than last year.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At this week’s ARA Leader’s Forum, MST Marquee’s Craig Woolford signalled that the effects of such high rate rises are likely to be felt in the retail industry for years to come, as customers change their shopping habits to deal with increased costs in every part of their lives. A key focus: promotions or margin?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Australian Consumer and Retail Studies (ACRS) unit at Monash University surveyed 1001 shoppers across Australia last June, asking them questions about the cost of living and consumer deviance. The majority believe that shoplifting is not justifiable at all.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

We saw this at the start of the pandemic when food store sales shot up by 21%. still plan to cook more at home. While this may sound positive for supermarkets, it also brings new challenges. First, supermarkets must determine exactly how much inventory to order so as not to waste food or purchase insufficient supplies.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2022

Israel-based supermarket/superstore chain Shufersal is gaining improved real-time visibility of products along its cold chain operations. Crates are monitored from the time an item is placed inside to its arrival at a Shufersal location.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Australia’s supermarket duopoly, Coles and Woolworths, have raced to implement new technology and transform labour arrangements to keep up with the e-grocery boom. My research suggests a reimagining of the Australian supermarket is currently underway. The supermarket personal shopper.

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Inside Retail

JULY 4, 2024

In France, supermarkets Leclerc and Carrefour are leading the way in urban centres with their dark stores offering hypermarket ranges in the centre of town. For example, supermarket Albert Heijn, one of the biggest retailers in the Netherlands, has been using thermal imaging to track shopper movements in-store.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 22, 2023

Total sales across UK supermarkets plummeted 7.2% Sales reached their highest point in June, at 12.4%. Retailers also increased their spend on promotional activity to 23%, up from 22.5% in the last four weeks ending 12th August 2023, marking the lowest level since January, market researcher NIQ reports.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2024

He originally joined the supermarket retailer in 2004 as a grocery buyer and category manager: Its a brand I know well and look forward to caring for in my new role. Nicholsons career also has included stints at Walmart, SuperValu and Winn-Dixie.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For brand teams at retailers, I always champion a shift of mindset. Your promotion vehicles are next in the retail comms framework. These promotional vehicles can take different forms. Here are some great examples of promotional vehicles that ladder up to a CVP. Think like a brand. But act like a retailer.

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I Vend

AUGUST 10, 2021

The COVID surge for supermarkets The pandemic hit many retailers hard, with stores shut and high streets deserted. According to industry experts The Grocer magazine, UK supermarkets continue to see high levels of growth. iVend Supermarket iVend helps supermarkets offer uninterrupted service to their customers.

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