Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

The pricing practices of Australia’s supermarket near-duopoly are about to the the focus of a year-long enquiry by the government’s competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The ACCC will examine competition in the supermarket sector and how it has evolved since the previous inquiry in 2008.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

Becoming proficient at navigating these obstacles is key to protecting retail profits. As consumers faced higher prices at the gas pump, grocery stores and other places, many cut back on their spending, increasing the competition among retailers. ATO attacks cost retailers millions of dollars each year.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2021

Over the last year or so we’ve seen retailers and ecommerce sellers adopting AI tools at a frenetic pace. From backend inventory optimization to identifying salesfloor hotspots to highly targeted marketing programs, we’re seeing an influx of great retailing practices, all being driven by AI.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

Predicting what’s to come isn’t easy, but having a robust network infrastructure in place would allow retailers to deploy new services rapidly when they’re ready to add them — regardless of where stores are located, or how long they’ve been established.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

At first, it seemed like Asia might get off lightly – most governments and professional economic forecasters in the region said so – but cost of living pressures are rising across the continent, with food, energy, rent and labour costs now all key drivers of retail price inflation. In Thailand, for example, the CPI is up 6.4

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

Another major issue is the inability of new retailers to be able to access competitively-priced stock from wholesalers, controlled by the duopoly. 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).

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2023

But around the edges and in the niches, there is a huge number of PC enthusiasts and gamers that either want higher performance equipment that you can’t get at those places, or they want to build their own computers. These are people who are seeking products that aren’t available at the more mass-market electronics stores.

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