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 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

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The longstanding, and so far unsuccessful search for Asda’s new CEO could receive a shot in the arm following the return of former chief Allan Leighton as its new executive chair this week. Retail Gazette looks at some of the possible candidates to be supermarket’s next chief executive.

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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 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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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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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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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

JANUARY 16, 2024

Dr Abas Mirzaei, a marketing lecturer at Macquarie University, told Inside Retail that “Woolworths is a household name, where consumers are exposed to the brand cues on a daily basis.” At the same time, there’s been broader discussion about 26 January and what it means to different parts of the community.”

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

per cent drop in comparable supermarket sales at Coles is a clear sign of normalising consumer behaviour in the wake of Covid-19 lockdowns. per cent sales growth at the peak of panic buying in Q3 FY20, the $7.7 We’re beginning to see customers returning to the CBD, as they return to work. Deflation of 0.2

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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 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 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

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 TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

The supermarket retailer will close 48 stores in upstate New York and Pennsylvania that are located in the “path of totality” from 3 to 3:30 p.m. The opportunity to experience a total solar eclipse comes once in a lifetime, and we don’t want our employees to miss out,” said Patrick Bourcy, a Regional Manager at Wegmans in a statement. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

data indicates that consumers are increasingly visiting multiple supermarkets to complete their shopping lists. Some shoppers are in search of bargains, accounting for increased trips to Aldi , but others are using different stores to find unique private label products, for example at Trader Joe’s. In the key grocery category, Placer.ai

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Earlier this week, supermarket player Coles announced it is selling its convenience arm Coles Express to long-time fuel partner Viva Energy for $300 million. If you look at what’s happened more recently, for all fuel operators the last few years, during the Covid-19 pandemic, have been challenging times,” Cain told the media on Wednesday.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Metcash is known for its supermarket brands IGA and Foodland and convenience brand Campbells/C-Store. It was also pleasing to see our supermarkets business return to volume growth in the second quarter as inflation showed,” said Doug Jones, CEO at Metcash.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2023

Australian retail giant Woolworths Group reported solid FY23 results on Wednesday , showcasing the supermarket sector’s resilience in the face of dropping consumer spend. Earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) from the company’s Australian supermarkets rose 19.1 per cent over the financial year to $2.8 per cent to $249 million.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Asda is testing out a self-service returns “drop box” where shoppers can deposit unwanted or faulty products and be refunded automatically. In phase two of the trial, customers can simply select the products they want to buy at the self-serve tills where age verification will take place.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Asda and Amazon have launched a new parcel pick-up and label-free, box-free return service at over 700 of the supermarket’s stores. Eligible Amazon orders will now be able to be collected at most of the supermarket’s stores across the UK, with more locations set to be added across the coming months.

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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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 21, 2023

Supermarket sales reached $36.7 per cent as customer shopping behaviour normalised with the return to in-store shopping. Coles completed 46 store renewals and opened 17 new stores and closed six, taking the network to 846 supermarkets. For the 52 weeks to June 25, sales from continuing and discontinued operations reached $41.5

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The chain’s value offer and rapidly expanding store network in recent years saw it overtake Morrisons to become the UK’s fourth largest supermarket in 2022. Its results are a stark contrast to Asda, which reported a return to profit earlier this year of £180m in the year to end of December 2023, up from a £432m loss in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2021

Kroger outlined plans to deliver total shareholder returns of 8% to 10% in 2021 at its virtual Investor Day, held March 31, 2021. Leadership pointed to two core areas for driving that growth: the fresh food segment and digital, which was described as “a growth engine” for the supermarket retailer, one of the nation’s biggest. .

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Inside Retail

JUNE 6, 2022

Supermarket Coles has partnered with Dream Big, taking part in the not-for-profit’s STEAM Ahead program to help close the gender gap in technology and showcase itself as an employer of choice for tech students. The post Coles’ gender diversity push picks up STEAM appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We work backwards from the business challenge you’re trying to solve,” said Tom Litchford, Head of Worldwide, Retail at AWS in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We Rite Aid , GNC and other retailers let shoppers pick up Amazon orders at their stores , and Kohl’s accepts Amazon returns.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2022

The change will see critical workers in food distribution allowed to return to work at the discretion of employers in an effort to ease the food shortages currently impacting supermarkets.

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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

JUNE 6, 2022

Here are some examples covering the spectrum of diversification, from a continuist perspective to more disruptive cases: In July 2021, John Lewis revealed plans to become a private landlord by building 10,000 new homes over the next 10 years on land currently used as car parks and above Waitrose supermarkets across the UK.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Metcash has announced it is upping its stake in Total Tools, from 70 per cent to 85 per cent, at a cost of $59.4 Metcash’s Food division, driven by supermarket chain IGA, benefited from the shift in consumer behaviour. billion due to growth it DIY and a return to growth in Trade sales. IGA saw like-for-like sales up 10.5

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Hy-Vee is the latest supermarket chain to get into the retail media game with Hy-Vee RedMedia , which is designed to be a full-scale retail media network that enables brands to connect with the retailer’s customer base across multiple platforms.

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