Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Seven & I plans to split off its supermarket operation and some 30 other “non-core” units into a holding company, York Holdings. Poor performance at the supermarket business hasn’t helped either, making the Japanese company a ripe target for a takeover bid from Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc, which owns Circle-K.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

Aldi is set to continue its expansion in Scotland, confirming today it plans to invest more than 40m over the next two years, opening three new stores in Arbroath, Baillieston and Kirkintilloch in 2025. Both initiatives will return in 2025, with Supermarket Sweep celebrating its tenth year.

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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. The sales growth was attributed to the retailer’s Dropped & Locked value campaigns and the successful execution of trade plans during Easter, Christmas and Mother’s Day. billion – up 5.3 billion, up 6.1

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

Last year, Woolworths Group, the company behind Woolworths Supermarkets and Big W reportedly told staff they could choose to work on January 26 and take another off day at the discretion of their manager. The Woolworths Group are currently implementing their third Reconciliation Action Plan.

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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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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. Additionally, Cain said the environmental impact of fossil fuels was difficult to justify for a business aiming to be the country’s most sustainable supermarket. “As

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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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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

And, in order to speed up and facilitate the business’ growth plans, which include an expansion of its store network, Metcash has increased its debt facility to Total Tools from $40 million to $65 million. Metcash’s Food division, driven by supermarket chain IGA, benefited from the shift in consumer behaviour. per cent to $9.4

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

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. Innovating the in-store experience can give stores a great return on investment.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Lee Nicholson I am looking forward to returning to Stop & Shop, which is where I started with this organization, said Nicholson in a statement. He originally joined the supermarket retailer in 2004 as a grocery buyer and category manager: Its a brand I know well and look forward to caring for in my new role.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

With spur-of-the-moment “I’ll just run in to grab something” shopping trips becoming less frequent and online ordering on the rise, shoppers are making plans and orienting their schedules based on order delivery timelines to a degree that seemed unthinkable a year ago. Adjust to Return Reluctance. Offer More Order Pickup Flexibility.

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Inside Retail

JULY 1, 2024

Coming out of a supermarket with no packaging is difficult. Have you ever been stuck in the supermarket, choosing between the large head of cabbage you know you won’t finish before it goes bad, or the plastic-wrapped half-cabbage you really need?

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I Vend

AUGUST 10, 2021

The COVID surge for supermarkets The pandemic hit many retailers hard, with stores shut and high streets deserted. According to industry experts The Grocer magazine, UK supermarkets continue to see high levels of growth. iVend Supermarket iVend helps supermarkets offer uninterrupted service to their customers.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 16, 2025

Supermarket bosses have called on the government to further postpone the rollout of the deposit return scheme. MPs were due to debate today (16 January) on whether to approve the legislation for DRS, however, sources told the publication that it would be impossible to stick to the schedule without supermarket support.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 26, 2023

At the same time, the return of in-person shopping after Covid-19 restrictions bit into the sector’s lockdown-era market share. Such plans could be hampered by the existence of Woolworths’ existing Metro60 offering , in which the supermarket chain uses Uber services to deliver groceries within a 60-minute window.

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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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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

” Although the business is the first to include the concept, he insists the brand doesn’t plan on “owning” it and hopes other retailers go on to adopt it too. ” Tookey adds that its food range offers greater benefits with alternatives that can be found in the supermarket.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 18, 2022

Like its other products, the packaging in the new range is made entirely of recycled ocean plastics, and refilled using pouches which customers can return to Zero Co for cleaning and reuse. According to Smith, Zero Co is in active conversations with supermarkets to get their products onto shelves.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2024

John Lewis appeared to backtrack on Dame Sharon White’s original turnaround plan as CEO Nish Kankiwala vowed to focus “unashamedly” on retail after the partnership posted its first profit in four years. We’ve secured the funding we need for the four years of the plan. Where is it investing?

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2022

After spinning off from supermarket giant Woolworths, Endeavour Group completed its first year as an independent business with an impressive result this week. The first seven weeks of FY23 have been relatively strong, with a return to a normal pattern of trade in retail and a continued recovery in Endeavour Group’s hotels division.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 24, 2024

“The German-owned supermarkets were just a twinkling in the CMA’s eye when this order was first made.” ” He added: “Fourteen years on, and with the return of a Labour government, surely it is time to look at how the active use of these legal tricks is preventing competition on retail parks in towns across the UK.”

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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

MAY 28, 2024

Great news but, again, we have been here before as recently as 2019 when the NRA walked away from amalgamation plans claiming it was not in the interests of small retailers. What might be more pressing is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission investigation of supermarkets that has been ordered by the Federal Government.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 19, 2024

The self-made billionaire had planned to keep the retailer online only but quickly shifted gears following a nationwide campaign for the brand to return to the high street. Dawson says “it’s all systems go now” and has grand ambitions, with plans to open up to 300 Wilko stores over the next five years.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Even the most commoditized of traditional shopping experiences — the supermarket — always has counters for specialty items where people can interact with staff to get exactly what they want. It’s much more than that: it’s a creative performance that incorporates interaction and storytelling to increase sales and decrease returns.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The self-made billionaire had planned to keep the retailer online only but quickly shifted gears following a nationwide campaign for the brand to return to the high street. Dawson says “it’s all systems go now” and has grand ambitions, with plans to open up to 300 Wilko stores over the next five years.

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Planning Beauty and Health Returns Supermarket 105

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Former Woolworths executive Bill Wavish and gaming czar Bruce Mathieson have developed a “fix it” plan for Endeavour Group. The plan involves having Wavish join the board of the liquor and gaming powerhouse, which they argue has lost its way after being divested by Woolworths in 2019.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

Granted, executive respondents to this survey spanned retail, supermarket, consumer goods, airlines, entertainment and media and even financial services, so these results reflect a broader view of how business leaders are thinking about loyalty.

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365 Retail

JUNE 21, 2021

Chief executive Ken Murphy said plans are in the early stages but he is hopeful it can match the appeal of similar scan-and-go stores being rolled out by Amazon in the UK. He said: “The key changes that we’re seeing since the restrictions have been eased is a return to more normalised shopping patterns. billion driven by a 68.1%

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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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Even if you weren’t planning to look, you might now be intrigued. Going back to the same supermarket and buying the same brand of milk means your brain doesn’t have to make those decisions again. Products being out of stock in a supermarket is a classic example. You might walk by and wonder what the excitement is about.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2021

Soon after, WA announced it would go a step further, fast-tracking its Plan for Plastics by four years with single-use plastics to be phased out by the end of the year. Indeed, Australia’s three biggest supermarkets, Woolworths, Coles and Aldi are all committed to meeting the 2025 targets and have delivered strong progress to date.”.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2024

This has seen many retailers successfully extending the personalisation of an in-store experience across their online platforms, resulting in increased conversion rates for products recommended on the homepage, and a happy, returning customer.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 30, 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 Gazette

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The move comes after the supermarket giant explored all options for the facility, The Grocer reported, with speculation around a potential purchase of the Wakefield factory by Hovis having circulated this year. Morrisons is getting ready to close its Rathbones bakery, putting 400 staff members at risk of redundancy.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2022

The comments follow worsening staffing challenges for supermarkets and suppliers described by AFGC CEO Tanya Barden as the greatest since the start of the pandemic. Workers returning a positive result should immediately self-isolate to comply with public health orders.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 19, 2024

The supermarket chain said its personal loan, credit card and retail deposit portfolios will be transferred across to the bank. ” The supermarket chain joins rival Tesco in offloading its core banking services, which announced in February it had sold its banking arm to Barclays in a deal worth up to £600m.

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