Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The winter World Cup has added a new level of uncertainty to the Christmas trading outlook of Britain’s supermarkets: How do you persuade cash-strapped shoppers to buy yule logs and luxury biscuits at the same time as beer and pizza? But with household budgets squeezed, supermarket chains are bracing for less of a sales bonanza. .

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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

JANUARY 23, 2022

Launched in 2017, wholesale platform Foodbomb connects restaurants and cafes with a marketplace of around 160 suppliers, simplifying the ordering process. But, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the business opened its doors to direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales to buoy the market through periods of empty supermarket shelves.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Alex Foster, who has 20 years of retail experience at discount supermarket Aldi, will take over the position. Barbeques Galore launched a B2B e-commerce site in May with the goal of expanding its wholesale operations in Australia and internationally.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 24, 2023

UK supermarkets have more than doubled their margins on fuel since the start of the war in Ukraine , according to recent data from the RAC. RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said the decline could have been even sharper if supermarket pump price reductions were “in line with cheaper wholesale costs”. for petrol and 5.7p

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Retail Wire

JULY 16, 2021

C&S Wholesale Grocers has entered into an agreement to acquire Piggly Wiggly Midwest. president of Piggly Wiggly Midwest and founder of Butera Market. “Piggly Wiggly is more than a supermarket, it is a family of franchise operators, employees and loyal … customers, too.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2023

The 7-Eleven Holdings board’s decision to seek a buyer for its network of about 750 retail outlets continues a seismic restructuring of the convenience retail market in Australia. 7-Eleven has indicated a $2 billion price tag for its 9 per cent market share in fuel sales and market-leading national convenience store network.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2021

An exclusively online supermarket is rolling out across metro Sydney and Melbourne this month to capitalise on the demand for quick and convenient grocery delivery. Adams is aiming to establish thirty locations by the turn of the new year, starting with densely populated markets before looking into expanding beyond metropolitan areas.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Wholesaler Metcash’s revenue grew in the first half of FY24 amid higher sales across its food, liquor, and hardware businesses. Metcash is known for its supermarket brands IGA and Foodland and convenience brand Campbells/C-Store. ” Underlying EBIT decreased 3.4 per cent to $246.5 per cent to $142.5 million.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2023

Back then the chain was a department store until 1965 when the first Woolworths supermarket opened in New Zealand, before the company later bought the Self Help chain and from 1973 began rebranding those under the Woolworths brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2023

Mexican grocer Chedraui , Raley’s Supermarkets and Primark Stores have topped the National Retail Federation’s 2023 Hot 25 Retailers list, which ranks the fastest-growing retail companies in the U.S. Raley’s Supermarkets, No. expansion ), BJ’s Wholesale and Costco. 6, also with 30% growth. By contrast, Grocery Outlet (No.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

billion merger, Kroger and Albertsons have increased the number of supermarkets they plan to divest by 166 , for a total of 579 stores. The retailers also have increased the corporate and office infrastructure they would sell to C&S Wholesale Grocers , as well as additional private label product lines, for a total of approximately $2.9

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 27, 2023

The grocers were questioned by MPs at the Business and Trade Committee on why prices continued to rise despite wholesale costs starting to fall. to £2.49bn driven down by market inflation and ongoing investment into its customer offer. .” to £2.49bn driven down by market inflation and ongoing investment into its customer offer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

A $68 T-shirt might seem like a tough sell, but eight years on, Molnar’s brand Goodlife C l othing has a host of top-tier wholesale partners, a booming DTC business and, most importantly, a cult following of customers that keep coming back. Product that Delivers on its Promise. Do their customers really keep coming back?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Soon after Britain’s Tesco abandoned its retail business in Thailand and Malaysia in early 2021, its buyer, Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group, merged it with its Siam Makro wholesale arm. The retail and wholesale businesses accounted for a roughly even split of the company’s 219.6 That was in October a year ago now. billion baht ($9.4

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

Foodservice distributor US Foods is continuing to expand its warehouse supermarket concept CHEF’STORE with four new locations in California, Montana and North Carolina. The new additions will bring the total number of CHEF’STOREs to 87 across 13 states. In February 2021, the company rebranded to the CHEF’STORE banner.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Discount supermarket chain Save A Lot is rolling out a new data-driven supply chain solution from SymphonyAI in an effort to better meet shopper needs and minimize stockouts and substitutions. The company retained 18 stores in its home market of St. to serve as test sites for new innovations and programs.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This week marks a year since Morrisons boss Rami Baitiéh took the reins of the supermarket and many changes have been made. Morrisons’ balance sheet is starting to look healthier, and the latest Kantar grocery market share data shows that its sales grew by 2.4%

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2022

I understood the Australian market, but also sort of understood the Lindt brand and the Lindt business model from growing up in Switzerland. Compared with a lot of our other markets, Australian shoppers and consumers really like, and are very open to, new concepts. Australia is a really attractive test market for big brands.

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Retail Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

SpartanNash operates as a grocery wholesale and owns 145 supermarkets under the banners of Family Fare, Martin’s Super Markets and D&W Fresh Market. United Natural Foods is said to be exploring a potential acquisition of SpartanNash as is Oak Street Real Estate Capital. military.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2024

In the cities, 7-Eleven is a retailer that just keeps evolving and adapting to stay up with consumer lifestyle changes: it has become retail’s pocket battleship that challenges convenience store competition and supermarkets alike. Competition in 7-Eleven’s line of business doesn’t just come from supermarkets.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The retail operations are not just confined to malls but also incorporate custom-built high streets and markets. Food sales are done under five different formats: Savemore, SM Supermarket, SM Hypermarket, Waltermart and Alphamart. The wet market still reigns supreme for the time being. billion of revenue in 2023.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2024

The supermarket saw like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, soar 4.6% ” He added: “For longer term and sustainable growth, we have developed new plans for growth in wholesale, convenience, franchise, export markets and global sourcing and we are now moving quickly to implement them.” rise the year before.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Steven Cain, CEO at Coles, said the deal will allow the company to focus on its growing omnichannel supermarket and liquor business. “This agreement is positive not only for Coles and Viva Energy, but also for our customers, team members and respective shareholders. Viva will continue to stock Coles’ own-brand products. .

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The first, a Melbourne radio interview defending Woolworths’ decision not to promote Australia Day merchandise, and the second, an ABC Four Corners exchange on competition in the grocery market. In terms of retail operations, the most curious decision was to persevere with the underperforming Big W chain.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 25, 2024

The supermarket flagged a “solid quarter of progress” Total sales excluding fuel edged up 3.4% New CEO Rami Baitiéh, who joined Morrisons from Carrefour last year, said that he was pleased with its performance as supermarkets, convenience, wholesale and online all delivered growth over the second quarter.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2023

Eighteen months on, the excitement around the merger is beginning to dissipate, as Lotus’s toils in a fiercely competitive market with a cash-strapped core customer. Just over 20 years later, Tesco hit the ball back to CPG after finding its own position in the Southeast Asian market untenable. The Makro brand, meanwhile, is thriving.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Metcash chief executive Jeff Adams will retire early next year, and will be replaced by Doug Jones, current CEO and senior vice president of South African-based Massmart Wholesale. Adams had indicated to the Metcash board a desire to retire, which allowed the business to complete a global search for a successor. “On

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

Consumers are not being served well by the New Zealand grocery duopoly, according to the Commerce Commission – but it stopped short of any major recommendations in the final report into the grocery market tabled this week. .

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

A combined Chemist Warehouse and Sigma would have a market share of 26.2 per cent of the Australian pharmacy sector, making the new entity more than double the next largest, EBOS, which is currently the largest and most diversified Australasian marketer, wholesaler and distributor of healthcare, medical and pharmaceutical products.

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Retail Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The grocery wholesaler SpartanNash plans to organize its corporate-owned supermarkets under banners that appeal to specific consumer demographics. “We This allows us to have much more purpose as we talk to shoppers and consumers. ”

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Morrisons has unveiled a host of management changes as CEO Rami Baitiéh begins shaping up his senior team for the supermarket’s next chapter. Former Coles liquor chief executive Darren Blackhurst will take the reins from Rachel Eyre as interim chief customer and marketing officer while she is away on maternity leave.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I felt like I had landed on a good idea and found a niche in the market for something that didn’t exist. Within one week, we developed a wholesale range, which we photographed and took out to specialty delis and independent supermarkets. IR : Is the wholesale side of the business still going? SF: No, it’s not.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 19, 2023

MPs described the session as “drawing teeth” after accusing Issa of failing to answer questions about the supermarket’s fuel prices , finances and treatment of staff, The Times. Issa responded several times that its pricing strategy had not changed under his ownership and that Asda was still a “price leader on fuel”.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

SM Prime is not just a developer and operator of garden-variety malls: it develops whole ‘lifestyle cities’ with residential, office, hotel, convention and entertainment uses integrated with enclosed malls, markets and retail high streets. Retail and wholesale trade have made key contributions to the improvement.

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Inside Retail

JULY 29, 2021

The commission said New Zealanders are paying too much for groceries compared to people in other international markets, the major two retail chains – the Woolworths-owned Countdown and the local co-operative Foodstuffs group – are stifling innovation and making persistently high profits in the absence of serious competition.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 14, 2024

The Morrisons Daily offer includes a core range of convenience items, fresh food to go, and selected elements of Morrisons’ popular Market Street fresh food, much of which is produced at the company’s own food-making operations. The service has since expanded to approximately 390 Morrisons supermarkets.

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