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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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 Gazette

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

However, Leighton certainly has his work cut out for him this time around, as the struggling supermarket continues to flounder. He told The Guardian that he had committed to spending three to five years with the supermarket chain, acknowledging that “it is going to take us that long to get it right.” as sales fell 5.5%

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2021

And this month we’re discussing the highs and lows of online shopping, covering everything from shipping delays and lost items to friction-filled returns. Gary shares some personal online shopping gripes, the risks retailers face in the last mile and how his British background influenced his foodie experiences from a young age.

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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

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

JUNE 15, 2021

Supermarket giant Coles has expanded its Coles Local store concept into Queensland with the reopening of its Ascot supermarket in Brisbane on Wednesday morning. At the company’s Q3 results in April, Coles chief executive Steven Cain said that there are strong indicators that the trend towards local shopping is beginning to unwind. .

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2022

It’s no secret that in-person shopping is a multi-sensory experience. While most know that it’s important to make a store visually appealing, including proper lighting and designing an interior layout that’s easy to navigate, many often forget the other senses that play a key role in the overall shopping experience — like sound.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

per cent drop in comparable supermarket sales at Coles is a clear sign of normalising consumer behaviour in the wake of Covid-19 lockdowns. A strong Easter period drove sales across confectionery and entertainment products, and, with fewer, shorter lockdowns, consumers are once again comfortable shopping in larger and busier areas.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Lidl and M&S have retained their crowns as the UK’s fastest-growing supermarkets over the last 12 weeks. The news comes as the NIQ found total till sales at UK supermarkets saw continued growth of 6.6% Grocery shopping after Christmas saw a 1.3% in January. It said this reflected a 6.1% It said this reflected a 6.1%

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Inside Retail

MARCH 6, 2022

Woolworths Group says it will open a large Big W store alongside its refurbished Woolworths supermarket at Sydney’s Town Hall later this year. The group has invested more than $10 million in the new store, hoping to help reinvigorate the city’s CBD as Covid restrictions ease.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Register to get access to all six sessions, which will dig into: Trend 1: Economic Forces will Shift Where and How People Shop Early research from Salesforce revealed that most consumers will seek value this holiday season. will add more data and context to where, how and why consumers will shop this holiday season.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

Floods in South Australia caused “severe road and rail logistics disruptions into Western Australia, while flooding in NSW and Queensland saw the suspension of trading at 130 stores across its supermarket, liquor and convenience store networks. The supermarket division recorded $8 billion in sales, also up by 3.9

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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. Coles completed 46 store renewals and opened 17 new stores and closed six, taking the network to 846 supermarkets. billion – up 5.3 per cent – while tax-paid profit rose to $1 billion.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you walk up and down the aisles of supermarkets, clothes shops or even furniture stores, you will notice that more brands are shouting about their commitment to protecting the environment, be it via packaging or marketing messages. The Lidl Return Scheme trial will run in participating Glasgow stores from 8 February to 11 August.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Asda and Amazon have launched a new parcel pick-up and label-free, box-free return service at over 700 of the supermarket’s stores. Eligible Amazon orders will now be able to be collected at most of the supermarket’s stores across the UK, with more locations set to be added across the coming months. as sales fell 5.5%

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Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2023

billion on a normalised basis while supermarket sales rose 2.1 billion driven by strong demand “buoyed” by improved competitiveness, a preference for local shopping and at-home consumption trends. Total food sales grew 2.8 per cent to $9.6 per cent and convenience store sales were up 9.7 Liquor sales grew 8.3

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A ‘normalising’ of consumer shopping behaviour and improved availability of products boosted Coles’ first-quarter sales. Supermarket sales increased by 1.6 Supermarket sales increased by 1.6 With customers returning to shopping in-store, e-commerce sales declined by 11.5 per cent to $9.8 per cent to $8.8

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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

JUNE 16, 2021

Supermarket Coles will spend $2.5 The business will seek to improve its online shopping, as well as its self-service checkouts, data and automation across its warehouses, in an effort to streamline the experiences and make it even simpler for Australians to buy their groceries.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

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

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

“The early success of our MFuture initiatives laid the foundations for a very successful year for Metcash and our independent retailers, with their improved competitiveness being a key factor in the retention of new and returning customers gained through Covid. billion due to growth it DIY and a return to growth in Trade sales.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

This year, Aldi welcomed 58 million customers through its doors in Scotland and now has one Aldi store for every 49,000 people in Scotland, with over 60% of households in Scotland shopping at its stores*. Both initiatives will return in 2025, with Supermarket Sweep celebrating its tenth year.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2023

A decade ago, husband and wife Jeremy and Bettina Kirk launched the first Scoop Whole Foods supermarket in Mosman, Sydney. The Scoop model is deceptively simple: the business skips distributors and sources products straight from growers and producers, offering customers a food shopping experience that is free of plastic packaging.

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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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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2022

Perth’s Forest Lakes Shopping Centre has been acquired for $81.5 Located 15 km from the CBD in the south-eastern suburb of Thornlie, the 14,577sqm development is anchored by Coles, Woolworths and Aldi supermarkets and is home to 42 specialty shops and kiosks. The post Forest Lakes shopping centre sells for $81.5

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Australian Unity Diversified Property Fund has divested Woodvale Boulevard Shopping Centre in Western Australia to a local syndicator for $36.5 Woodvale Boulevard Shopping Centre is located on a 27,000sqm land holding in a catchment area with an average household income of $121,446 – 6.2 per cent higher than the WA average.

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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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Jordyn Evans is the founder and brains behind Mingle, the seasoning brand that bootstrapped itself into national supermarkets Coles and Woolworths. Since its founding, Mingle has enjoyed a series of magic marketing moments that have helped catapult the brand into supermarket aisles and consumer pantries.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Self check-out solutions have increasingly become a critical aspect of the supermarket shopping experience for consumers, with an estimated two-thirds of shoppers reporting a preference for automated technologies over interacting with a human check-out operator. The technology itself, however, isn’t without its drawbacks.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2024

real estate assets and Neiman Marcus Group’s real estate assets, creating a $7 billion portfolio of retail real estate in luxury shopping destinations. In Forbes , Kestenbaum wrote: “It could be that [Amazon] is expecting a return by selling services to the combined company and the investment locks the business in.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Victorians can now return their used Tetra Pak beverage cartons for recycling and receive a 10c refund following the launch of Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme (CDS). ” Supporting the initiative, supermarket chain Coles has introduced 47 Reverse Vending Machines in its Victorian stores to coincide with the CDS launch.

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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 25, 2021

In an order made last night, fitted masks must be worn by anyone aged 12 or over in all indoor venues, including shopping centres, workspaces and on public transport. Carriers and contacts had also visited pubs, cafes and supermarkets. Merlino has not ruled out further restrictions for Melbourne.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2023

Banducci’s comments come as the supermarket business released its second annual Living Healthy report, which found that the quality of Australian diets is dire, but it’s not all down to what’s on your plate. And, according to the report, there’s a lot of work to be done. in benefits.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2021

There’s a lot of COVID effect in those numbers, but the trajectory is clear — consumers want to shop online, for everything. The same holds true when it comes to shopping for large plants like shrubs and trees — a lot of the initial research and discovery already is happening online, but the transactions still largely take place in-person.

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