Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2024

Tesco said price pressures on supermarkets continue to ease as it reported its profits had more than doubled over the past year. He said the supermarket had “worked hard” to reduce prices, including “doubling down” on its Aldi Price Match offer and Clubcard Prices promotion, which is available on around 8,000 products each week.

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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 Gazette

JULY 18, 2023

If you shop in a mainstream supermarket, chances are you’ll be familiar with member prices. Retail Gazette looks at why so many supermarkets have adopted this approach, whether it’s proving successful, and how loyalty programmes can stand out when so many retailers are offering member prices.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

We saw this at the start of the pandemic when food store sales shot up by 21%. 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.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 20, 2023

Pee was responsible for driving the expansion of the retailer’s online shopping app and the Sparks loyalty programme His departure creates a vacancy in the top ranks at the high-street retailer, as its turnaround builds pace. Chief digital and technology officer Pee was hired back in 2018 from Canada’s largest supermarket chain Loblaw.

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365 Retail

MARCH 3, 2023

jump putting its market share at 7.1% Amid record inflation, supermarkets continue to search for alternative ways to offer customers value with a pronounced shift in focus to everyday low pricing (EDLP), comprising price matching and loyalty scheme incentives to help shoppers save. higher year on year and another recording a 24.1%

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 20, 2023

This departure creates a vacancy in the top ranks at the high-street retailer, just its eagerly anticipated recovery gains traction. Chief digital and technology officer Pee was hired back in 2018 from Canada’s largest supermarket chain Loblaw, in what was widely regarded as a coup for the British retail giant. people last year.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It’s no surprise then that Australia’s biggest supermarket chains have all focused their holiday efforts on bringing people together with food. The conversations we’ve been having, particularly with FMCG companies at the moment, is that they’re starting to see a return to normalcy around distribution, and access to freight,” Aley said.

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2022

While e-commerce may have been the name of the game two years ago at the peak of Covid-19 restrictions, as we’ve emerged from lockdowns, it’s clear that physical retail is not going anywhere. Overall, the return to retail has made it clear how important the customer experience is in drawing people back. Contactless self-service.

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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. Blackhurst returns to Morrisons from 18 March, having previously worked for the grocer between 2015 to 2019 primarily as group commercial director.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

The Battle to Create Retail’s Future The retail industry has surpassed the tipping point on Kurzweil’s law of accelerating returns, which states that the rate of technological process and innovation tends to accelerate exponentially over time. Many retailers are at this stage. No army of humans can do this. That sounds good.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 17, 2024

Retail Gazette takes a look at the retailers that offer exclusive pricing for loyalty scheme members. Around 8,000 products are now available at discounted prices for its loyalty card members each week, with customers able to save up to £360 off the annual cost of their groceries. year on year to over 22m consumers.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Essentially, shoppers could walk in, scan a QR code from their Amazon mobile app at a turnstile, add their items to their baskets within the store, and just walk out when they were finished. If they opt for the autonomous checkout, customers need to use the Rewe app to register at the entrance to the store. Already at it in Singapore.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2023

consumers have at least one email account, with the average addresses per person totaling 2.5. Yet despite the proliferation of this channel, the average consumer receives an average of 121 emails with at least 56.6% If the advertisements and promotions are not adequately tailored to the shopper, they won’t stand out amongst the noise.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2024

At my local supermarket, the self-checkout PIN pad has a note asking if I want to take a two -question survey (I don’t). Sri Narasimhan Consumers may wonder what companies do with all this data, or if they do anything at all. RTP: What’s been the impact of this focus on closed-loop processes for CVS’ customers?

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365 Retail

JANUARY 9, 2024

Additionally, supermarket spending experienced its lowest increase since September 2022, at 2.8%, possibly because consumers had already stocked up on festive items in November, leveraging early discounts. This is likely due to many retailers and supermarkets starting discounts and promotional activity earlier than usual.”

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As shoppers return to malls and high streets, this trend shows no signs of abating, as retailers look to provide unique, interactive and frictionless experiences that tie in with digital offerings. Supermarkets, for example, are targeting promotions based on different areas of their stores or using screens to manage queues.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It’s interesting to see both Waitrose and M&S running campaigns you’d never have seen in the past, with price promises, price matching and price-down promotions. In the UK and Europe more generally, shrinkflation is absolutely rife at the moment. I witnessed one supermarket with a joint of lamb locked in a Perspex box.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

Naturally, he started his career in fashion there, followed by stints at other major fashion brands including John Varvatos and Michael Kors. When Molnar decided to launch his own brand he turned to Andrew Codispoti, a childhood friend who at the time was a trader on Wall Street, for funding. “I

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2021

It is looking increasingly likely that many office workers will continue to work from home, at least on a part-time basis, with a number of media reports suggesting that up to 95 per cent of consumers do not want to return to commuting five days a week and want to work a maximum of three days a week in the office.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 13, 2023

Early adaptations of digital signage were often very much about replacing print to get a return on investment, with Lotteries Corporation, a great example. So there’s an obvious and real return on investment from converting to digital around cost saving in printing and fuel, for a start.

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VMS

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 1954, after Edward returned from the War, he married the love of his life, Mary. After an industry consolidation, Edward was first made Vice President of Sales & Merchandising and then promoted to Senior Vice President of Supermarket Services Inc. Due to Covid, there will be a celebration of Edward’s life at a later date.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At the same time, gamification encourages engagement and amplifies marketing results. Whether it be a confetti-blasting spin-and-win or a weekly gifting of promotional discounts, these tactics ultimately reward the consumer for continued engagement with the brand. What is gamification? The result: a 4.5-times

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2021

At an individual level, they love them. They love their money, they love their engagement with their brand, they love them returning to their store. At the risk of using yet one more trendy phrase, consumers also want “shoppertainment”. Do you suffer from a fear of shoppers? Collectively, however, they have started to fear them.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2024

Despite only just returning to the black, Kankiwala says the partnership is “absolutely on target” to increase its profits tenfold to £400m by 2027/28. Stores Waitrose is set to open its first supermarket in almost 10 years as the upmarket grocer embarks on an expansion of its store network. Where is it investing?

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The challenges during this time were related mostly to a lack of delivery slots and product and labour shortages, which impacted the ability to fulfil orders in a timely manner (or at all). . With a return to in-store shopping, demand for online services has become more manageable. But digital remains an important and growing channel.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2021

Of course, there are reasons why certain kinds of products haven’t been as quick to become ecommerce mainstays — mailing a live tree will never be as simple as shipping at T-shirt, for example. At Vroom, unit sales increased 82% YoY in fiscal year 2020 , and revenue was up $916 million from 2019. were up 80% last year, approaching $5.6

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2022

Last year, supermarket giant Woolworths launched its Everyday Market, an online marketplace hosted within its broader website that allows customers access a variety of products in categories not traditionally held in its supermarkets, such as homewares and clothing, and includes products from Big W, PetCulture, Healthylife, Designer Bums and Joonya.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Whether it’s experimenting with meal kits, taking online courses or making products to sell from home, the ability to learn, create, connect and source materials at scale, enabled by tools and platforms on the internet, has had a huge impact on making. One brand that promotes its people rather than just products on TikTok is Woolworths.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

After so much Covid-19 disruption and damage, the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) Big Show returned to the Big Apple with an equally big bang last week. In-store innovation Retailers continue to overhaul legacy systems and integrate in-store tech at pace, with one goal – a seamless customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Hy-Vee is prioritizing this growth area through a strategic partnership with Samsung that allows the supermarket chain to bring dynamic ads and content into stores, as well as through a robust network of Samsung Connected TVs and Direct Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising channels. “Hy-Vee, This is another way for us to reach those customers.”

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A1 Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Meanwhile, the Rugby World Cup drove spending at pubs and bars, yet growth slowed on restaurants and takeaways as Brits begin saving money for the festive period. Of this group, almost half (49 percent) are buying budget or own-brand goods over branded goods in supermarkets. Spending on essential items grew 4.6 percent).

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Rangeme

AUGUST 5, 2021

in London estimates that c-store sales increased at a mid-single-digit pace in 2020 versus a low-single-digit increase in prior years. John Mercer, head of global research at Coresight, expects the former to pick back up as consumers return to normal life. Coresight Research Inc. What do shoppers want? But what is that exactly?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

For years, this has led to convenience store operators buying stock at a Countdown or Pak’N Save store where common items can be bought in volume considerably cheaper than from wholesalers). Sadly, the recommendations will not result in any tangible change for consumers at the checkout.

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Rangeme

MARCH 1, 2022

found that supermarkets make as much as a third of their profits each year from the fees they charge their suppliers. For example, you may need to offer your products to retailers at a higher price to ensure their profitability. Fees for promotions. Returns fees. At the very least, discuss what is possible.

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Mike Anthony

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Is this a fad, or a gimmick, or is this the future of supermarket shopping? Of course, supermarket refill stations are nothing new. I recently shared one example at a Marks & Spencer store which was jam-packed full of retail innovation. For anyone who has seen supermarket refill stations, you’ll know what to expect.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

With the retail environment across Asia changing so fast, retailers and consumer-product manufacturers are facing difficulties in predicting shopper behaviour – more so at the shelves – hence missing the opportunity to maximise revenue potential. The Covid-19 pandemic has reduced consumers’ tolerance for out of stocks in supermarkets.

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