Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Woolworths has appointed new leaders for its retail business as part of the supermarket chain’s organisational changes. Meanwhile, Sally Copland will return to New Zealand as MD of Woolworths New Zealand. The company has named Annette Karantoni as MD of Woolworths Retail, reporting to the group’s CEO Amanda Bardwell.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Asda has asked staff to return to the office a minimum of three days per week and had made job cuts in head office. The supermarket revealed the news in an internal email yesterday (5 November), with the changes impacting over 5,000 office staff members across three areas in Leeds and Leicester, effective from January.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The return of its former bosscomes at a crucial time for Poundland after it reported its fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, which fell 7.3% Williams’ return certainly signals something major is afoot, with early reports suggesting the group is considering a mass restructuring of the entire business or even a possible sale.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Australian supermarkets will reap bigger profits in fiscal 2023 half-year due to decades-high inflation and increased savings, but analysts warned of a rough second-half as households reel from mounting expenses due to higher cost of living. Woolworths said food prices over the September quarter rose 7.3 per cent, while Coles reported a 7.1

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2025

Asdas former supply chain boss Gavin Chappell has returned to the supermarket chain after 10 years. Chappell first joined the supermarket in 2009 as vice president of supply chain for Asda.com and stepped down in 2015. Chappell is the latest in a series of former Asda executives to return to the business in recent months.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2021

Videos and images of bare toilet paper shelves have once again surfaced online as consumers fall into old habits, forcing supermarkets to bring back purchase limits on high demand items. Varying approach from supermarkets . In the last week alone, 17 Woolworths supermarkets have been listed as Covid-19 exposure sites.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

In addition to the new stores, the supermarket has also committed to extending or refurbishing six of its existing stores over the next two years, with an extension planned for Galashiels, refurbishments planned for Linlithgow, Glenrothes and Stirling and further upgrades in Hamilton and Carluke.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Two new stores opened last week, offering a supersized format of Alibaba’s Freshippo supermarkets to paying members. The rise in members-only supermarkets . Members-only supermarkets have become popular in Asia in recent years. Australia is a unique market given the power of the existing players in the supermarket space.

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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. Leighton also admitted that why we are where we are is largely self-inflicted. fall over the golden quarter.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 4, 2025

Asda has completed a 2m transformation of its Pilsworth store in Bury, marking the supermarket’s largest single-store investment in several years. The 61,000 sq ft store has been given a fresh modern look with new feature lighting and updated signage, including materials promoting the return of Rollback.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 30, 2024

” The supermarket chain said it will use the proceeds to return capital to shareholders. ” The supermarket chain said it will use the proceeds to return capital to shareholders. The deal will reduce Woolworths’ stake in the hotels, alcohol and gaming facilities operator to just 4.1

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Uber has introduced a package return service that provides consumers with live tracking within the Uber app. Uber will charge a flat $5 fee for returns, but only $3 for members of the Uber One loyalty program. Uber will charge a flat $5 fee for returns, but only $3 for members of the Uber One loyalty program.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 4, 2025

Asda’s flagging fortunes have carried further into the new year, with sales at the supermarket falling 5% in the 12 weeks to 23 February. Related Story Asda tops list for supermarket substitutions, Which? The supermarket giant marked another month as the UK’s leading grocer, with market share up 0.6% from the 13.7%

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Asdas private equity owner has enjoyed a 44m payout despite the supermarket chains ongoing struggles. Related Story Can Asda veteran Allan Leighton return the supermarket to its former glory? of the supermarket, which has been battling with falling sales and a mounting 6bn debt pile. from the year prior.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 17, 2025

Customers of Sam's Club are begging the company to return to the original recipe for one fan-favorite food item.

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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 Gazette

MARCH 21, 2025

This latest wave of Rollback price cuts, which brings nearly 10,000 products almost a third of Asdas entire range under reduced prices, follows the supermarkets return to its popular price-cutting initiative at the end of January. Price reductions are seen across multiple categories, with some products slashed by as much as 45%.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

Albertsons Companies will launch cart-based smart checkout technology later this year at select supermarkets throughout the country, in partnership with Veeve Smart Carts. In October 2021, online grocery platform Instacart moved deeper into supermarket technology with the acquisition of Caper.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2025

Asda chair Allan Leighton has laid down his game plan for turning around the UK’s third biggest grocer and “ regaining customers trust” The supermarket chain saw its like-for-like sales slide 3.4% The supermarket has since invested 43m in store hours during the second half of last year.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Related Story Asda demands 3 day return to office and reveals job cuts 06/11/2024 x 8:54 AM At the start of the week, it was revealed via an internal email that Asda has asked staff to return to the office a minimum of three days per week alongside cutting job head office.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2024

Over the decades, Australia’s major supermarkets have emerged from various parliamentary and regulatory agency inquiries, not to mention political, media, union and consumer group pressures, relatively unscathed. This time supermarkets are caught in a political quagmire and the repercussions of an economic and social reset.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

He served as chair since 2021, and took day-to-day responsibility for leading the grocer alongside Rob Hattrell, an executive at TDR, the private equity firm that owns a majority stake in the supermarket chain, after co-owner Mohsin Issa stepped down. Leighton, was Asda CEO from 1996 to 2001 and chaired the Co-op for almost a decade.

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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

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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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This concept, already used in US supermarkets, aims to boost sales, with Freeosks machines showing a 50% increase in sales post-campaign. Its flagging fortunes have continued into 2025, with sales at the supermarket chain falling 5.2% Its flagging fortunes have continued into 2025, with sales at the supermarket chain falling 5.2%

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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. We’re beginning to see customers returning to the CBD, as they return to work.

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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 pandemic served as a propellent for online grocery, and many consumers aren’t returning to traditional in-store shopping: online grocery is expected to account for 20.5% fueled by $10.1 of all U.S.

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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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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 26, 2025

Asda chair Allan Leighton has restarted the supermarkets search for a new chief executive following a failed effort by his predecessor Lord Rose. Leighton, who returned to the business in November after 24 years, is thought to be seeking a candidate who he can work alongside rather than oversee, The Telegraph reported.

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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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Inside Retail

MARCH 10, 2025

Neighbourhood and big-box centres take centre stage With little new regional mall space in the pipeline, the onus for increasing supply is going to be on neighbourhood shopping centres anchored by supermarkets and offering primarily necessities. CBRE puts the retail property pipeline at 1.77

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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 per cent.

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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% Lidl’s sales grew 13.2%, while M&S jumped 11.6%, according to the last data from NIQ. in January.

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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. over the golden quarter.

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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. Occupancy was down a fraction but still well above 90 per cent.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Asda has escaped a penalty charge despite the supermarket missing a crucial target for separating its IT systems from former owner Walmart. Related Story Back to the future: Will the return of Rollback and Asda alumni revive its fortunes?

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