Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Coles has launched an all-in-one AI-powered Smart Trolley trial designed to enhance in-store shopping experiences through technology. 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.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

The pricing practices of Australia’s supermarket near-duopoly are about to the the focus of a year-long enquiry by the government’s competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The ACCC will examine competition in the supermarket sector and how it has evolved since the previous inquiry in 2008.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

very intentionally draws its design and merchandising inspiration from supermarkets rather than pharmacies. Joyleaf, which opened in late 2023, is organized and merchandised by type of product rather than by brand: all the edibles, for example, are grouped together as a category, as they would be in a supermarket.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Stop & Shop will deploy Savings Station kiosks in half its stores this month and complete a chainwide rollout to all 350+ supermarkets by the end of January 2025. Shoppers can scan their GO Rewards loyalty card or enter their phone number to load their digital coupons and activate personal offers based on their shopping history.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Stop & Shop has appointed Lee Nicholson, currently SVP of Procurement for its parent company Ahold Delhaize USA , as its new EVP and Chief Merchant. Lee Nicholson I am looking forward to returning to Stop & Shop, which is where I started with this organization, said Nicholson in a statement.

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JUNE 28, 2022

German supermarket chain REWE Group has introduced autonomous store technology at a 4,300-square-foot Schönhauser Allee location in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood, using Tel Aviv, Israel-based Trigo frictionless checkout. Payments are collected and receipts are issued digitally.

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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 TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2022

Southern California grocery chain Vallarta Supermarkets will incorporate white-label picking and delivery capabilities from stor.ai as it seeks to enhance online shopping and fulfillment operations while maintaining its connection with shoppers. “We By partnering with stor.ai

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2024

Supermarket chain Aldi has dropped its plan to expand into online shopping believing it might affect its ability to continue providing low-cost products for customers. In addition, offering online shopping would also create more complexity given Aldi is still building warehouses and an automated distribution centre, Lack stated.

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JULY 16, 2024

Stop & Shop will shutter 32 supermarkets in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island by Nov. Stop & Shop is focused on growing through large, multi-year price investments and a stronger customer value proposition, both in stores and online.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Frasers Property Australia will begin the construction of a new shopping centre at The Grove community in Tarneit in mid-next year. The shopping centre will house more than 20 retail outlets across 4000sqm, including a bakery, greengrocer, nail bar, pizza restaurant, Chemist Warehouse outlet and Anytime Fitness gym.

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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. It’s an atmosphere that leaves customers wishing they would forget something on their shopping list so they could justify coming back sooner.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 5, 2022

Woolworths supermarkets and Big W stores will gradually phase out 15- and 45-cent reusable plastic shopping bags nationwide during the next year. The retailers will stop selling them state-by-state starting at Woolworths supermarkets, Metros and online.

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MAY 17, 2024

Lucky for me, my local ShopRite just started offering Instacart ’s Caper Carts , so I had the chance to get some work done while also doing my weekly grocery shopping (talk about multi-tasking). Smart shopping carts are [an easy way for] retailers to dip their toes into [autonomous checkout]. by the end of 2024.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 30, 2024

While the ongoing inquiries into supermarket pricing have been generating plenty of headlines in recent weeks, they barely came up during Coles’ Q3 earnings call on Tuesday. per cent increase in supermarket sales revenue to $9.1 We remain committed to providing our customers the best possible value on their grocery bills.

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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

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. Spurrell and Xu spoke about the evolution of grocery shopping behaviour in China.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The newly refurbished area will be anchored by major supermarket chains – a full-line Coles and a new Aldi – along with a big-format Asian grocer Tong Li. The precinct will also house fishmonger Zag Seafood, poultry shop JC Chicken with both fresh and cooked quality products, a Breadtop bakery, Two Deers Cafe, oOh!

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Giant Eagle will upgrade its category management capabilities across its 216 supermarkets and 274 GetGo convenience stores, allowing the retailer to make more informed decisions about which products are placed where within its stores.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 22, 2022

A 50-per-cent share of Brisbane’s Grand Plaza Shopping Centre has been acquired by EG Australian Core Enhanced Funds for an undisclosed amount. It features parking space for 2500 cars, a refurbished food court, three supermarkets – Woolworths, Aldi and Coles – along with Target, Kmart, Big W and Event Cinemas as major tenants.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

More than 150,000 owners of select GE Appliances can now view seasonal recipes on their oven’s and range’s LCD screen and then seamlessly shop for the ingredients from supermarket giant Kroger. Touchscreens on the appliances will showcase a rotating selection of recipes from Kroger and strategic CPG brands including King Arthur Baking.

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MAY 28, 2021

Now, Verizon Business has teamed up with AiFi — a provider of AI-powered computer vision technology — to bring an autonomous shopping experience to the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500. AiFi shares that same passion and have been amazing partners in making this autonomous shopping experience come to life.”. In the U.S.,

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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. Customers can’t go to the shop down the road. So it’s retail, but not as anyone else knows it.”

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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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JULY 5, 2024

Alex Sinclair in the doorway of his specialty British cheese shop in San Francisco, Willow on the Green. I was raised in England and according to my staff, my Scottish accent only appears when I do two functions in the shop — when I take money or I say goodbye,” he said. RTP: So how are you bucking that stereotype with your shop?

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 3, 2022

Supermarket chain Woolworths has unveiled gteh post-beta iteration of its business-focused online shopping platform, Woolworths at Work. Jarad Nass, GM of Woolworths at Work. Nass claims that one of Woolworths at Work’s focus areas is continuing to offer more transparency via the Work Hub.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2022

The first pilot is launching this week in Brazil and will see Payface technology implemented across five St Marche supermarkets in São Paulo. Once registered they will be able to pay via facial recognition at checkout without the need for a card or mobile device. Additional pilots are being planned in the Middle East and Asia. “The

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JULY 20, 2023

The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., including 200 Whole Foods supermarkets, and have clocked more than 3 million uses to date.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Supermarket giant, tick. We’ve all encountered those shopping centres that look and feel the same, no matter where you are in the world. Platform is the antithesis of a cookie-cutter shopping centre – indeed, it acts as a platform for independent brands to thrive. Major department store, tick. Global fast-fashion retailer, tick.

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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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JANUARY 30, 2023

The new supermarket concept Addie’s , a self-described “drive-up grocer,” has opened its first store in Norwood, Mass., The pickup-only store does not allow in-store shopping; instead, the store serves as an onsite warehouse designed solely for stocking, storing and bagging groceries. fueled by $10.1 of all U.S.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Just one year ago, supermarket rivals Coles and Woolworths were fighting it out for the top spot as Australia’s most trusted brand. Bunnings is the only ‘survivor’ from the top rankings of a year ago, in third at the time behind then most trusted brands Woolworths and Coles. The response I got was baffling.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Amazon is removing its cashierless Just Walk Out (JWO) technology from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and will not deploy the solution in new locations scheduled to open later this year, according to multiple media reports. The company already had moved the JWO unit out of its retail group and into its AWS cloud computing division.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Healthy supermarket retailer Planet Organic plans to launch its new south-west London store in Teddington at the end of February 2023. Planet Organic is the UK’s largest fully certified organic supermarket, and the largest chain of Soil Association accredited stores.

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Inside Retail

MAY 14, 2023

In partnership with Dexus – property manager of Wilsons – the supermarket has signed a lease for a 2252sqm space at the Willows Shopping Centre and will offer shoppers a range of grocery products, fresh produce, and bread delivered daily.

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