365 Retail

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Lidl has become the first supermarket chain to initiate a bottle return scheme trial, debuting in Glasgow. Customers participating in the scheme are rewarded with 5p for every eligible container returned. Lidl anticipates that the trial will facilitate the recycling of at least 10.5

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Retail prices increased 4.8 per cent through the year to the June quarter with the largest price rises seen in food and household goods. “On On a quarterly basis, overall retail price growth has already exceeded sales volume growth in both the March and June quarters,” says Rumbens. “On per cent price growth.”.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The part about discounted prices is obvious. Yet, as I wrote in another recent feature for Inside Retail , price is only one part of the value equation for consumers. Is it mostly at the same store? Perhaps it’s at two, if you have another near work. Think about your own life. Where do you buy your groceries?

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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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365 Retail

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Unions have warned supermarket giant Tesco that it faces disruption at its stores as workers take industrial action at distribution centres just ahead of Christmas. But the retailer said it was confident it could keep the shelves fully stocked and “fulfil our plans” despite the action by the Unite and Usdaw unions.

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365 Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Warehouse workers and drivers employed by supermarket giant Tesco are to stage a series of strikes in the coming weeks in a dispute over pay. Unite said more than 1,000 of its members at depots in Antrim, Belfast, Didcot and Doncaster, will take industrial action. More strikes will be held at the two sites after Christmas.

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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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