Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Asda has asked staff to return to the office a minimum of three days per week and had made job cuts in head office. The supermarket revealed the news in an internal email yesterday (5 November), with the changes impacting over 5,000 office staff members across three areas in Leeds and Leicester, effective from January.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

Albertsons Companies will launch cart-based smart checkout technology later this year at select supermarkets throughout the country, in partnership with Veeve Smart Carts. In October 2021, online grocery platform Instacart moved deeper into supermarket technology with the acquisition of Caper. in a statement.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The return of its former bosscomes at a crucial time for Poundland after it reported its fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, which fell 7.3% Williams’s return has been well received thanks to his proven track record of transforming the business during his time as managing director between 2017 and 2023.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Australian supermarkets will reap bigger profits in fiscal 2023 half-year due to decades-high inflation and increased savings, but analysts warned of a rough second-half as households reel from mounting expenses due to higher cost of living. Analysts at Citi also expect benefits from selling prices rising faster than cost bases.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

This year, Aldi welcomed 58 million customers through its doors in Scotland and now has one Aldi store for every 49,000 people in Scotland, with over 60% of households in Scotland shopping at its stores*. Both initiatives will return in 2025, with Supermarket Sweep celebrating its tenth year.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2021

Videos and images of bare toilet paper shelves have once again surfaced online as consumers fall into old habits, forcing supermarkets to bring back purchase limits on high demand items. Varying approach from supermarkets . Aldi Australia does not have any product restrictions in place at this time.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Two new stores opened last week, offering a supersized format of Alibaba’s Freshippo supermarkets to paying members. Jiong-Jiong Yu, a senior retail analyst at UK-based research firm IGD, says that Stock X is a much more localised take on hypermarkets. The rise in members-only supermarkets . Localised luxury .

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2025

Asdas former supply chain boss Gavin Chappell has returned to the supermarket chain after 10 years. Chappell first joined the supermarket in 2009 as vice president of supply chain for Asda.com and stepped down in 2015. Chappell is the latest in a series of former Asda executives to return to the business in recent months.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2023

Group CEO, Doug Jones, said both sales and earnings were at “record levels” as the business continued to face additional challenges associated with rate increases and cost of living. billion on a normalised basis while supermarket sales rose 2.1 For the year to April 30, group revenue rose 6.2 per cent to $15.8 per cent to $307.5

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 4, 2025

Asda’s flagging fortunes have carried further into the new year, with sales at the supermarket falling 5% in the 12 weeks to 23 February. Kantar reported that the market share for the UK’s third largest grocer now sits at 12.6%, down 1.1% Related Story Asda tops list for supermarket substitutions, Which?

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2025

Asda veteran Allan Leighton admitted the supermarket chains problems are self-inflicted as he looks to turnaround the business following his return as chairman last year. Leighton also admitted that why we are where we are is largely self-inflicted. fall over the golden quarter.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 4, 2025

Asda has completed a 2m transformation of its Pilsworth store in Bury, marking the supermarket’s largest single-store investment in several years. The 61,000 sq ft store has been given a fresh modern look with new feature lighting and updated signage, including materials promoting the return of Rollback.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Uber has introduced a package return service that provides consumers with live tracking within the Uber app. With this extension of the Uber Connect service, couriers will pick up prepaid, sealed packages — up to five at a time — and deliver them to a local post office, UPS or FedEx location.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2025

Asda chair Allan Leighton has laid down his game plan for turning around the UK’s third biggest grocer and “ regaining customers trust” The supermarket chain saw its like-for-like sales slide 3.4% The supermarket has since invested 43m in store hours during the second half of last year.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Related Story Asda demands 3 day return to office and reveals job cuts 06/11/2024 x 8:54 AM At the start of the week, it was revealed via an internal email that Asda has asked staff to return to the office a minimum of three days per week alongside cutting job head office.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Reviving Asda’s fortunes could take three to five years, according to Allan Leighton, the supermarket’s former CEO who has returned to drive its turnaround efforts. He will be spending three to five years with the supermarket chain , acknowledging that “it is going to take us that long to get it right.”

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 21, 2025

This latest wave of Rollback price cuts, which brings nearly 10,000 products almost a third of Asdas entire range under reduced prices, follows the supermarkets return to its popular price-cutting initiative at the end of January.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Asda has introduced its first automated free sample vending machine at its Pilsworth store in Bury, calling it a first to market innovation that will “revolutionise in-store sampling” Shoppers at the branch can access free samples through the Asda Rewards app, with Mller offering Frijj as the first product.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2021

Discount supermarket Aldi is making a push into convenience with the opening this week of a Corner Store concept in North Sydney. The new store layout is designed to support smaller-basket, convenience-driven purchases, in contrast to the traditional big-box Aldi supermarket typically frequented by consumers for larger shopping trips.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new supermarket concept Addie’s , a self-described “drive-up grocer,” has opened its first store in Norwood, Mass., At 22,000 square feet , this first Addie’s store stocks a wide selection of national brands and local favorites that will be regularly updated based on customer searches and requests. fueled by $10.1 of all U.S.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 15, 2021

Supermarket giant Coles has expanded its Coles Local store concept into Queensland with the reopening of its Ascot supermarket in Brisbane on Wednesday morning. Coles is ranging local products like Jocelyn’s Provisions, Meat at Billies, brands that exist within their own right here in Brisbane,” Mortimer said.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

He served as chair since 2021, and took day-to-day responsibility for leading the grocer alongside Rob Hattrell, an executive at TDR, the private equity firm that owns a majority stake in the supermarket chain, after co-owner Mohsin Issa stepped down. Leighton, was Asda CEO from 1996 to 2001 and chaired the Co-op for almost a decade.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2024

Over the decades, Australia’s major supermarkets have emerged from various parliamentary and regulatory agency inquiries, not to mention political, media, union and consumer group pressures, relatively unscathed. This time supermarkets are caught in a political quagmire and the repercussions of an economic and social reset.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For those in Melbourne, stepping into the LaManna supermarket, in the northern suburb of Essendon Fields, is like taking the world’s shortest flight to Italy. To the LaManna customer, a trip to the supermarket is not an errand but an indulgence.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We’re excited to be able to offer a great lineup of new experiences for workers and tourists returning to the city.”. Brookfield Place Sydney is home to the second Locali by Romeo’s store, a premium grocery concept that debuted at 388 George Street, Sydney earlier this year. Locali by Romeo’s opens second store. Foodie experience.

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Inside Retail

MAY 28, 2024

It was long overdue but at last, the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) and the National Retailers Association (NRA) are finalising a merger. What might be more pressing is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission investigation of supermarkets that has been ordered by the Federal Government. Or are they?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 10, 2025

A trifecta of immigration, housing unaffordability and limited supply of new retail property is creating exciting opportunities for retailers and their landlords around Australia, according to research heads at brokerage firms who spoke with Inside Retail in January. CBRE puts the retail property pipeline at 1.77

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Inside Retail

MARCH 16, 2025

Note that although Makro is billed as a wholesaler, its customer base includes an enthusiastic consumer segment that prefers the Makro bulk-buy experience and uses it as an alternative go-to for products it cannot get at a regular supermarket. For the full year, company revenues came in at 512.0 Net earnings were 4.0

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Inside Retail

MARCH 6, 2022

Woolworths Group says it will open a large Big W store alongside its refurbished Woolworths supermarket at Sydney’s Town Hall later this year. The group has invested more than $10 million in the new store, hoping to help reinvigorate the city’s CBD as Covid restrictions ease.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

Floods in South Australia caused “severe road and rail logistics disruptions into Western Australia, while flooding in NSW and Queensland saw the suspension of trading at 130 stores across its supermarket, liquor and convenience store networks. The supermarket division recorded $8 billion in sales, also up by 3.9 per cent.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2025

Hills recently led the revival of Asda’s Rollback campaign, which was brought back as the supermarket seeks to revive its fortunes. Before joining Asda, Hills served as group director marketing and communications at Aldi UK for more than a decade.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

The delivery platform also has created a Wallet feature; live activity tracking for orders in process; add-on recommendations at checkout; and a more automated process for reporting problems with an order. Grubhub+ members will be charged a lower fee, and for a limited time these loyalty program members can access the service at no cost.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 6, 2025

Former Poundland boss Barry Williams was parachuted back onto the board of the discount chain at the start of the year as owner Pepco looked to address its struggling performance. drop in sales it reported for Poundland during the three months to 31 December and 3.6% in its most recent financial year. over the golden quarter.

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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., He was most recently VP of Fresh Merchandising at Save a Lot and has held fresh food roles at companies including Walmart, Albertsons, Rouses Market and Farmland Foods , a division of Smithfield Foods.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 6, 2025

Amazon Fresh has launched what it described as “Londons best value meal deal” at just 1 for shoppers throughout January. Shoppers can opt for a hot drink for no extra cost, while iced drinks are also available at Holborn and Liverpool Street stores. meal deal range for just 1. The grocery business’s 5.50

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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 Gazette

JANUARY 14, 2025

Gregg joins the business on Monday (20 January) from his current position as chief ecommerce and retail officer at Asda, Retail Week reported. He spent the last eight years at the UKs third biggest grocer, responsible for its retail and online shopping channels. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazettes free daily email newsletter

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