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.” The post Why Amazon’s New “Just Walk Out” Supermarkets Will Change Everything.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Discount supermarket chain Aldi is continuing its aggressive expansion across the U.S., with plans to add approximately 150 new stores to a fleet that already includes 2,100 locations in 37 states. Aldi also plans to increase its number of locations offering curbside pickup from 1,200 to 1,500 by the end of 2022. by store count.

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Retail TouchPoints

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

APRIL 27, 2021

The development application is subject to approval from the NSW Department of Planning, and will support 440 jobs during its construction phase and a further 250 once operational. We’ve seen an extraordinary acceleration in online grocery shopping over the past year,” said Bardwell. “As

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2023

The rebranding is part of a $370 million, three-year transformation plan for the company which will see older stores revamped and an upgraded customer loyalty program. The post Woolworths plans $370 million rebrand, upgrade of its NZ store network appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

And it doesn’t plan to stop there. On Monday, the platform announced a partnership with supermarket giant Woolworths , which will see over 1200 products from its Metro stores in Sydney and Melbourne available to order on the Uber Eats app from next week. ?and? Changing shopping habits. effortless? ?way? groceries? ?delivered?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Woolworths Group has pulled the plug on plans to open a Dan Murphy’s store in Darwin after an independent panel ruled that the development should not go ahead. While food customers are still shopping less frequently, the growth in the number of items customers put in their baskets is slowing. per cent with sales penetration of 11.6

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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 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

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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Retail TouchPoints

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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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2023

parent company of the Loblaws supermarket chain, will invest $2 billion Canadian (approximately $1.49 By growing and innovating, we are advancing the priorities that matter to customers: outstanding shopping experiences, affordable options and support for their health and wellness,” said Galen G. Loblaw Companies Ltd.,

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2020

DoorDash , best known for restaurant deliveries, is expanding further into the supermarket vertical through partnerships with Meijer , Fresh Thyme and Smart & Final , with plans to add Hy-Vee and Gristedes / D’Agostino “in the coming weeks,” wrote Mike Goldblatt, Head of Grocery and Convenience Partnerships at DoorDash in a blog post.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Seven & i Holdings , parent company of 7-Eleven , plans to create a new holding company for its supermarkets, specialty stores and other non-convenience store businesses. Additionally, Seven & i plans to rename itself as the 7-Eleven Corporation as it focuses more intently on its global convenience store business.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The in-store grocery shopping experience has held on to its appeal, even as supermarket retailers have realized that they also need to offer customers simple, yet personalized, digital commerce options. But supermarkets can no longer rely on simply providing a top-notch store experience for success.

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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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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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Inside Retail

AUGUST 19, 2021

With the growth of online shopping and heightened safety concerns due to the Covid pandemic, click-and-collect has become a prerequisite for shoppers, allowing them access to goods without entering a store. I would love to have a little independent supermarket onboard, to support them with their accessibility to customers. “We’re

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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

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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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Chinese on-demand delivery platform Dada Group is beefing up its 415 Intra-City Shopping Festival, a sales event focused on quick delivery offerings taking place April 8-17, 2022. As with many other Chinese shopping festivals, the launch of new products will play a large role in the event.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

One of Southeast Asia’s largest online grocery platforms, HappyFresh, plans to open as many as 100 dark stores across the region to facilitate fresh and dry grocery delivery. Bricks-and-mortar, and ‘mom-and-pop’, shops are still largely dominating the market as consumers are used to hand picking their groceries on their own,” Segarra said. “As

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Foodland Supermarkets is set to open a unique “community-minded” liquor chain in South Australia early next month. The first Local Cellars store will open in Renmark with more than 10 planned across the state before March next year. The post Foodland Supermarkets to launch liquor chain, Local Cellars appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Discount retailer Aldi may be a novice when it comes to in-store technology in Australia, but it has plans afoot in the UK to launch an advanced system that will replace checkout entirely. Woolworths introduced it in supermarkets in 2018, as a trial at its store in Sydney’s Double Bay. Shoppers love it or hate it.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 24, 2024

Today, there are more than 50 franchise locations and 500 head-office staff across Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Indonesia, and there are plans to open 30 more new shops in Australia alone this year. The brand’s latest shop just opened in Sydney’s Surry Hills in April. IR: Why Bondi Beach?

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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. Stores Aldi is racing ahead with its store expansion plans, revealing this week it was ploughing £800m into accelerating its quest to reach 1,500 stores nationwide.

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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

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. will add more data and context to where, how and why consumers will shop this holiday season. trillion — a soft 3% growth rate over the same period in 2023.

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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. Transform shopping in-store. Plan and mitigate all scenarios.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 26, 2024

Morrisons is set to open 400 more Morrisons Daily shops in a bid to take on rivals Aldi and Lidl as it pushes ahead with its convenience growth plans. The news comes as the supermarket delivered “ solid quarter of progress ” with like-for-likes excluding fuel and VAT up 4.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

including 200 Whole Foods supermarkets, and have clocked more than 3 million uses to date. We are always looking for new ways to delight our customers and improve the shopping experience,” said Leandro Balbinot, CTO at Whole Foods Market in a statement.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Platform Zero, a digital platform that links supermarkets with small businesses as a means to deal with food waste and provide cost of living relief, has emerged as the winner of the 2023 Kickstarter Challenge organised by the Accelerator for Enterprising Women. At the moment it’s just me doing everything,” she said. “So,

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Manager of Digital Strategy & Innovation, General Mills Jennifer Lambert, SVP of Strategy & Planning, Hy-Vee, Inc.

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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

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

After opening its newest store this week, Melbourne chain Daniel’s Donuts says it plans to expand its network from 25 stores to 40 by the end of this year. The next sites on the aggressive expansion plan include Southern Cross Station and Melbourne Airport. It trades from 5am to midnight.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The study flags that, despite the elevation of supermarket brands to become some of the most trusted entities in Australia, there is also a growth in distrust, and that’s a problem. But in more recent months, beef prices have been dropping at the farm gate by 60 per cent or more, while supermarket prices stayed high.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2023

Scentre Group is looking for an investor interested in taking a 50-per-cent stake in its Westfield Whitford City shopping mall in WA. Colliers’ MD of retail capital markets for Asia Pacific, Lachlan MacGillivray, has been appointed to sell the shopping centre stake through an expression of interest campaign.

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