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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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2024

A Denver District Court judge has stopped the Kroger-Albertsons merger in its tracks, cancelling a planned Aug. I am pleased that Kroger and Albertsons agreed to halt their plans to merge until the court rules on the state’s lawsuit to permanently block the grocery merger,” said Phil Weiser, Attorney General of Colorado in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

The planned $24.6 billion merger of supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons has faced pushback from federal regulators, state Attorneys General and labor unions practically from the moment it was first announced in October 2022. Top execs from both companies defended the merger in testimony to a U.S.

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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 updated plan also seeks to address unions’ concerns about the merger’s impact, including the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which voted to oppose the merger in May 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

billion Kroger acquisition of Albertsons , calling the deal — the largest supermarket merger in U.S. This supermarket mega merger comes as American consumers have seen the cost of groceries rise steadily over the past few years,” said Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition at the FTC in a statement.

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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? Running between Nov. 20 and Dec. This will be separate to the dedicated space for Christmas products.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 29, 2025

The German grocery giant will be able to go ahead with its plans to launch the pub inside its Dundonald store, based near Belfast, after a judge dismissed an appeal raised by another trader. Lidl has been granted permission by a High Court to open its very first pub in Northern Ireland.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Thai retail conglomerate Central Retail (CRC for short) has launched full-on into the wholesale business under the name Go Wholesale, and is planning to give CP Axtra — parent company of retailer Lotus’s and wholesaler Makro — a run for its money. Average store size is a little over 5,300 square meters.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2020

Like many retailers dealing with slow (or nonexistent) store traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic, tea retailer DAVIDsTEA is shifting its focus to e-Commerce and wholesale operations. DAVIDsTEA plans to apply for similar orders for its wholly owned U.S. As part of bankruptcy filings in Canada and the U.S., Bankruptcy Code.

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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. It is also planning to work closely with local vendors and provodores to access fresh produce. 15-minute delivery . 15-minute delivery .

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This landbank should be sufficient to serve the company’s development plans for five to seven years. Food sales are done under five different formats: Savemore, SM Supermarket, SM Hypermarket, Waltermart and Alphamart. In all the company runs 30 brands, and conveniently they rent space in SM Prime’s malls.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 4, 2025

During its most recent update, the UK’s biggest supermarket, said it was considering replacing its barcodes with QR codes, said it had pulled in its highest market share in nearly nine years, hitting 29% of the industry’s sales. Tesco’s UK and Ireland like for like revenues, excluding fuel and VAT, rose 3.7%

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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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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

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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Talking Retail

JULY 15, 2021

An e-commerce platform that plans to help convenience stores by-pass wholesalers and buy direct from manufacturers is to launch by the end of this year. Subscribbe, which is intended to help convenience stores compete on price with the big supermarkets, is aiming to create a “corner shop conglomerate”.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

SF: I would absolutely love to expand interstate, but it’s a really big move that requires a lot of planning. 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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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2025

This year, Central plans to open four new home-improvement stores, 10 supermarkets/food halls and four Go Wholesale warehouses in Thailand, plus two Go! This year, Central plans to open four new home-improvement stores, 10 supermarkets/food halls and four Go Wholesale warehouses in Thailand, plus two Go!

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nielsen Consumer Insights reported a 37 per cent increase in supermarket coffee sales – with more premium options seeing sales growth of over 40 per cent. During the height of the pandemic, coffee consumption changed radically. Customers stopped buying from baristas and started brewing their own.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Costco Wholesale Corporation, the world’s third-largest retailer after Walmart and Amazon, has a wacky fiscal year that is out of sync with most retailers: Its FY23 ended 3 September and its annual report was released on 11 October. In Asia, member-based companies have in the past focused heavily or exclusively on wholesale customers.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 5, 2024

Morrisons has launched an app to allow its wholesale and franchise partners to refresh its supplies in its supermarkets. The development means wholesale customers can be invoiced on their existing agreed terms instead of buying at the in-store prices and an electronic delivery note is sent via email and to their store’s EPoS systems.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

The ACCC will not oppose Woolworths Group’s plan to acquire food distributor PFD Food Services following a detailed investigation. And] while there were concerns expressed by some suppliers, many suppliers did not raise competition concerns.”.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

C&S Wholesale Grocers is revising the Grand Union supermarket banner with plans to open 11 supermarkets in New York and Vermont. Ten of the Grand Union locations are having grand openings this week. The Grand Union stores are back and better than ever.

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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. Executives from Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco told MPs on Tuesday that they were shielding customers from the full impact of rising costs.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 30, 2024

The supermarket will use the proceeds of the sale to “fund further investment in the grocery and food making businesses, as well as significantly strengthening the business’s capital structure” The grocer is expected to use some of the funds to pay down part of its £5.17bn debt pile.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

In a preliminary report released last July, it flagged a raft of options for improving competition including making it easier for new competitors to enter the market, and adjusting planning laws to reduce restrictions on the use of sites using development covenants.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2023

The OTR deal is yet to gain regulatory approvals but Viva Energy plans to rebrand Coles Express to OTR and establish the headquarters for the merged businesses in Adelaide. RG Withers was one of four grocery wholesalers supplying independent supermarkets when the first 7-Eleven in Australia opened in Oakleigh, Victoria in 1977.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2024

The supermarket saw like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, soar 4.6% Subscribe to Retail Gazette for free Sign up here to g et the latest news straight into your inbox each morning Morrisons CEO Rami Baitiéh said: “In January I outlined our plan to reinvigorate, refresh and strengthen Morrisons as we started our next chapter.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Hello Drinks founder JP Tucker said it is a first in the Australian liquor industry and is a win for both customers and wholesalers. But with third-party logistics (3PL) impacting its bottom line, Tucker looked at how he could work with wholesalers to eliminate these costs. We had around 200 truck deliveries from wholesalers last year.

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Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2021

Despite a burgeoning petcare aisle at its supermarkets, Woolworths Group is hoping to carve out a greater slice of the $2.9 While the business is predominantly wholesale, Fuzzyard is eager to grow the online business and connect more directly with consumers. “We’ve

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Inside Retail

JULY 29, 2021

With the supermarket trade carved up between them, the two big chains are in a cosy position and there are significant barriers to potential rivals establishing a presence,” said CEO Jon Duffy. “The Make land more available through changes to planning laws and restrictions on the use of covenants. “If

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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

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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. ” Morrisons said its senior team changes reflect some of its key areas of focus, as it plans to “refresh and re-invigorate” the business.

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Inside Retail

JULY 29, 2021

They have a retail-wholesale philosophy — they have their own stores, they’re in large department stores [through concessions] and they hold licences for a bunch of very well loved and established brands. IR: What about that mix of own stores, concessions, wholesale and licencing appeals to you as a retail business model?

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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. However, in late September, the retailer revealed it would wipe £331m off that bill after it sold the ground leases on 76 of its supermarkets to investor Song Capital.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2021

Moreover, the business model is based on wholesaling, supplying and supporting franchisees and independent retailers, some of whom may well shift to other wholesalers and pharmacy retail brands if the Wesfarmers takeover succeeds. cash bid through a scheme of arrangement, valuing the Sydney-based wholesaler at $687 million.

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Talking Retail

JULY 28, 2021

Simply Fresh is in talks with several other companies to replace Sainsbury’s as its supplier, after the supermarket last week announced it was shutting down its wholesale operation. The decision meant that Simply Fresh’s plans to roll out the Sainsbury’s supply agreement to many of its stores were stopped in their tracks.

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