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ACCC to conduct enquiry on Australian supermarkets’ pricing and competition

Inside Retail

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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How the World Cup could be a nightmare for Britain’s supermarkets

Inside Retail

The winter World Cup has added a new level of uncertainty to the Christmas trading outlook of Britain’s supermarkets: How do you persuade cash-strapped shoppers to buy yule logs and luxury biscuits at the same time as beer and pizza? But with household budgets squeezed, supermarket chains are bracing for less of a sales bonanza.

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Analysis: Synergies begin to show after merger of SEA hypermarkets

Inside Retail

Soon after Britain’s Tesco abandoned its retail business in Thailand and Malaysia in early 2021, its buyer, Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group, merged it with its Siam Makro wholesale arm. The retail and wholesale businesses accounted for a roughly even split of the company’s 219.6 That was in October a year ago now. billion baht ($9.4

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Kiwis ‘not served well’ by grocery duopoly, but report reactions mixed

Inside Retail

Consumers are not being served well by the New Zealand grocery duopoly, according to the Commerce Commission – but it stopped short of any major recommendations in the final report into the grocery market tabled this week. .

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Here’s an inside look at Tops Club, the Costco of Thailand

Inside Retail

There are other obvious similarities: Tops Club is both a retailer and a wholesaler (a format often referred to as ‘cash and carry’ in Asia). Of course, Costco never set out to be a real discount concept, but its marketing emphasises national (read: American) brands.

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Who is new Morrisons CEO Rami Baitiéh?

Retail Gazette

The group said that Carrefour had outperformed all French food retailers in volume terms in 2022, and was ranked first in terms of market share gains. Its market share has dropped from 9.1% ” And French grocery retail is considered to be the best in the world, as any visitor to a supermarket in the country will testify.

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Amazon Unsurpassed as Omnichannel Retailer

Mass Relators

In 2017 Amazon signaled its intention to enter the brick-and-mortar retail space in a major way by acquiring Whole Foods Market for $13.7 that will feature Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology that enables customers to avoid the checkout line. Other major retailers such as Walmart and Kroger Co. SpartanNash has supplied Amazon since 2016.