Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2025

Asda veteran Allan Leighton admitted the supermarket chains problems are self-inflicted as he looks to turnaround the business following his return as chairman last year. We had a financial plan but we didnt have a business plan. We have now got a plan, everybody understands what it is were trying to do, he said.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 23, 2025

The supermarket will close its remaining cafs, hot food counters, patisserie, and pizza counters, and reduce senior management roles by an estimated 20%, Reuters reported. The supermarkets latest round of cuts and closures is part of its broader 1bn cost-saving plan.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

During the upcoming Retail Strategy & Planning Series , experts will explore these trends further to identify top tips and tactics for driving holiday sales results. data indicates that consumers are increasingly visiting multiple supermarkets to complete their shopping lists. In the key grocery category, Placer.ai

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2025

Hills recently led the revival of Asda’s Rollback campaign, which was brought back as the supermarket seeks to revive its fortunes. ” The news comes as the supermarket pushes forward with its turnaround programme, with former CEO Allan Leighton having returned as executive chairman to lead its recovery efforts in November. .”

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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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Supermarket and convenience store sales grew 3.5 Total Tools saw the return of normal competitive market conditions following intense pricing pressure. The group’s food sales, excluding tobacco, surged 17.9 per cent, while its Superior Foods division jumped 8.7 Meanwhile, liquor segment sales climbed 2.7 per cent to $496.3

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Inside Retail

MARCH 16, 2025

Note that although Makro is billed as a wholesaler, its customer base includes an enthusiastic consumer segment that prefers the Makro bulk-buy experience and uses it as an alternative go-to for products it cannot get at a regular supermarket.

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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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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. LaManna’s defiance of the industry status quo means it is only just hitting its stride.

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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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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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Retail Gazette

MARCH 6, 2025

The return of its former boss comes at a crucial time for Poundland as Pepco revealed on Thursday (6 March) that it was “actively evaluating” all strategic options to separate the discount business from the group, including a potential sale. Pepco has also put a pause on the retailer’s expansion plans for the year.

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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 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, 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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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

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 Gazette

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Tesco is planning to open over 150 Express convenience stores in the UK over the next three years as it ramps up expansion plans. The supermarket opened the doors of the first Express store in Barnes and Norbury, London in 1994 and now operates a total of 2,704 of the convenience sites.

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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

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 TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2020

An often-repeated statement is “all of our digital plans for the next five years will be executed in the next 12 months.” The T11 Supermarket in Beijing added staff for delivery and kept the shelves fully stocked. In South Korea, the situation with COVID-19 is under control and life is returning back to normal.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The supermarket giant has poached Lidl’s chief operating officer Matt Heslop as its new director of convenience and wholesale. Lebon brings over 39 years of experience in supermarket retailing, having most recently served as executive director of supermarkets and hypermarkets at Carrefour.

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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 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

MAY 24, 2021

The ‘dawn delivery’ and ‘free return’ services have been expanded in collaboration with affiliated online shopping malls. South Korean supermarket chain E-mart has announced plans to exit Vietnam, according to The Korea Times. Tech giant Google has unveiled plans to open its first physical store in New York City this summer.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Loser: B&M B&M has been one of the losers of 2024, but it looks like it will continue to underperform in 2025, given its inability to match the powerful loyalty card discounts of its supermarket rivals in food and its failure to develop a credible presence in non-food online.

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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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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 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

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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