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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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2024

Australia’s leading supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, delivered their third-quarter results to shareholders this week along with new consumer insights. This includes cross-shopping, where consumers actively purchase their groceries from multiple stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ahold Delhaize USA will make the DoorDash on-demand grocery delivery marketplace available across its five supermarket banners: Food Lion, Hannaford, Giant Food, The Giant Company and Stop & Shop. As leading omnichannel grocery retailers in their markets, Ahold Delhaize’s U.S.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Aldi and Asda have seen their market share fall according to fresh data from analysts NIQ. Supermarkets as a whole saw till sales dip over the past month, with the slowdown likely due to cooler weather and a return to regular routines for shoppers following the summer break, according to NIQ. Asda’s share plummeted to 11.8%

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2024

In Australia, nearly half of consumers (48 per cent) are now shopping online at least sometimes. While online grocery sales are predicted to keep growing strongly , the majority of grocery shopping still happens in physical stores. New generations of digitally native shoppers are now entering the grocery market.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Asda’s hold on the grocery sector has weakened further as customers headed to Tesco and Sainsbury’s for their weekly shopping instead. The supermarket chain’s market share dropped one percentage point from 13.5% Related Story Will Aldi leapfrog Asda as the UK’s third biggest supermarket?

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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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Recently, the supermarket beauty aisle has undergone a makeover of sorts, with Australia’s leading supermarkets Coles and Woolworths now stocking digitally native self-care products. Today, it is the number one brand, with 46 per cent market share – outselling global beauty giants Maybelline, L’Oréal, Revlon, Rimmel and Covergirl.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

Digital shelf, dark store and a fresh food playground – is this the future of supermarkets? The consulting company has developed a new supermarket concept, in partnership with design agency Le Projet Hope, that blends online with offline and old shopping habits with new processes. . Accenture thinks so. Image: Supplied.

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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. According to Kantar’s, Asda’s hold on the market has plunged dropping 1.2 Aldi was the cheapest supermarket for August 2024, according to Which?,

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Alibaba is expanding its membership-driven hypermarket chain Store X, bringing together its best practices from online and offline shopping, as it seeks to capitalise on China’s burgeoning middle class. Two new stores opened last week, offering a supersized format of Alibaba’s Freshippo supermarkets to paying members.

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Dezeen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Swedish studio Westblom Krasse Arkitektkontor and design agency Snask have revamped a supermarket in Täby, adding pastel hues and materials such as terrazzo and wood to "turn shopping into an experience". Our main goal was to create a more personal shopping experience," Snask creative director Freddie Öst told Dezeen. "We

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 21, 2024

Warm weather and household buying ahead of summer holidays accelerated sales growth at UK supermarkets this month, although Asda continued to struggle, fresh data shows. Tesco, Sainsburys, discounter Lidl and Waitrose also gained market share but Asda lagged behind. Sales at the supermarket fell 6.4% and it lost 1.3

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 13, 2024

Asian grocery chain Foodle will open its second premium megamarket on August 20 in The Glen Shopping Centre in Victoria’s eastern suburbs. The location will feature 1800sqm and is designed by internationally renowned supermarket architects, Landini Associates.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2021

As a result, it has become the star of a significant urban renewal project that will create a bustling inner-city neighborhood filled with shops, residential apartments and offices. Woolworths supermarket is driving one phase of this project with its Fishermans Bend Neighbourhood Shopping Centre, which opened in July.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

Traditionally, the main battleground of the Easter trading period is in supermarkets and, of course, confectionery. These include the everyday shop versus maximising key retail trade periods, screens versus in-store footprint and retail media networks versus trade marketing. Nestle came a competitive second.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The two largest supermarkets in the country – Coles and Woolworths – have been found to have a “huge gap” when it comes to labelling foods for sale online. The post ‘Huge gap’ in major supermarkets’ food labelling online appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. stars or higher, compared to just 0.4

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2024

Stop & Shop , which operates 360 supermarkets across Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey, will end tobacco sales by Aug. The retailer also will host two cigarette buyback events in neighborhoods within its market area that have higher rates of smoking and smoking-related health issues. “Our

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Online shopping has come a long way in recent years and we are continuing to look for ways to help make healthier choices easier for our customers, however they shop with us,” the Woolworths spokesperson said. The post “Isn’t helpful”: Supermarket duopoly’s online labelling under fire appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2023

At the big end of town, Woolies X, with its embedded Quantium research is driving the customer data revolution for team green, while Wesfarmers’ OneDigital promises to play catch up and unleash the power of Flybuys with a huge commitment in talent and marketing (what about that AFL Grand Final budget).

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Retail Focus

JULY 28, 2021

Their apps open, supermarket executives also enquire: “But who’ll own the data …?”. Second, think about how retail and supermarket buildings could be affected: Just Walk Out will also mean “just walk in, anywhere.” While many retailers are commissioning market research to understand their customers, Jeff Bezos doesn’t.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Lidl has become the third largest supermarket in London, overtaking rival retailer Asda as it hits a market share high of 9.1%. The grocer experienced the fastest growth out of all supermarkets in the city and was named the fastest-growing supermarket in the UK overall by Kantar.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Manhattan’s Fairway Market grocery chain has partnered with Instacart to develop a new convenience-focused service called Fairway Now that will offer delivery of last-minute grocery items and household essentials in as fast as 30 minutes. Fairway Market is a trademark of the retailer-owned supermarket cooperative Wakefern Food Corp.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2024

It has been seven years since Amazon acquired the American grocery chain Whole Foods Market, but from its perspective, it is still only scratching the surface of the grocery sector. In the average month, you might shop at a half dozen different places for groceries and everyday essentials, like personal and household goods,” shared Hoggett.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

food retail industry comprises nearly 63,000 grocery stores and supermarkets, which amounted to $765.98 Retailers can bring loyalty programs to the next level by adding proximity marketing based on in-store location throughout the journey. This creates a quicker, more personalized and convenient shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

HappyFresh currently operates in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, and will focus on growing its business within these markets in the coming year, according to chief executive Guillem Segarra. This puts HappyFresh in a position to reach more households, and gives us the ability to better penetrate largely untapped markets.”.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 18, 2024

Uber Eats couriers will start to pick orders in supermarkets as it revealed the number of shoppers who have placed a grocery order on its platform has nearly doubled in the last two years. Uber global head of grocery and retailer Susan Anderson said: “It’s very clear that grocery shopping trends have fundamentally changed.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2021

In July, German supermarket brand Aldi opened its first Corner Store concept store in North Sydney to little fanfare. It’s the first of its kind in Australia and a first for the brand which is known for taking an innovative approach to store formats that cater specifically to market demands.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

Digital shelf, dark store and a fresh food playground – is this the future of supermarkets? The consulting company has developed a new supermarket concept, in partnership with design agency Le Projet Hope, that blends online with offline and old shopping habits with new processes. . Accenture thinks so. Image: Supplied.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 2, 2024

Sainsbury’s said it experienced the “biggest market share gains of any grocer” during the quarter as more customers flocked to its supermarkets for their weekly shop. Sales at the supermarket surged 4.2% in the 16 weeks to 22 June, with a strong 4.8% growth in grocery helping to offset a 4.3%

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Alibaba-owned grocery chain Freshippo will launch its first presence in Australia, in partnership with Ebest, the local online Asian supermarket. Australia is Freshippo’s third offshore market after the US and Singapore.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2023

A decade ago, husband and wife Jeremy and Bettina Kirk launched the first Scoop Whole Foods supermarket in Mosman, Sydney. The Scoop model is deceptively simple: the business skips distributors and sources products straight from growers and producers, offering customers a food shopping experience that is free of plastic packaging.

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Retail TouchPoints

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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Australian Unity Diversified Property Fund has divested Woodvale Boulevard Shopping Centre in Western Australia to a local syndicator for $36.5 Woodvale Boulevard Shopping Centre is located on a 27,000sqm land holding in a catchment area with an average household income of $121,446 – 6.2 per cent higher than the WA average.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2024

The Editors’ Perspectives column offers insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. Smart shopping carts are [an easy way for] retailers to dip their toes into [autonomous checkout]. So, What’s it Like to Actually Shop with a Smart Cart?

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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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