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Tesco plans first checkout-free stores and sees normal shopping patterns return

365 Retail

Tesco is set to launch its first checkout-free store following a successful trial for staff at its head office over the past year. Some commentators had raised concerns that supermarkets would take a hit from the reopening of non-essential retailers, and with restaurants, bars and cafes welcoming back customers in the past two months.

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

Inside Retail

Several submissions advocated splitting the wholesale and retail arms of the two players, Woolworths NZ and Foodstffs, thus reducing their ability to influence prices through convenience stores and independent retailers. In addition, Covid has brought about further, more recent, steep cost increases.

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April Consumer Card Spending Growth Fails to Match Inflation; Brits Turn to Cost-Saving Strategies Amid Rising Expenses

365 Retail

Popular money saving methods adopted by these shoppers include buying discounted products nearing expiration, aka “yellow sticker” items (38 per cent), and using vouchers or loyalty points to get money off at the checkout (37 per cent). This led to a return to growth for sports & outdoor retailers (+0.6 per cent) than in March (3.5

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Consumer spending grew just 4.3 percent in April, yet summer holiday planning and Eurovision ticket sales boosted travel and entertainment

A1 Retail

Popular money saving methods adopted by these shoppers include buying discounted products nearing expiration, aka “yellow sticker” items (38 percent), and using vouchers or loyalty points to get money off at the checkout (37 percent). This led to a return to growth for sports & outdoor retailers (+0.6 percent) than in March (3.5

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A cost-of-living crisis is brewing in Asia. Here’s what it means for retail

Inside Retail

The country’s Wholesale Price Index is up more than three times the pace of the CPI, at 9.7 The measures include reducing household electricity and gas bills, and extending subsidies for oil wholesalers to maintain gasoline and other fuel prices at artificially lower levels. Japan is an excellent case in point.

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Wesfarmers’ API takeover: Growth drug or poison pill?

Inside Retail

Those hurdles included concerns from the Pharmacy Guild despite Woolworths proposing a voluntary code of conduct, no doubt an indication that API customers were not keen to have a supermarket owner for their primary supply line. An earlier 1990s grocery venture with Australian Independent Wholesalers didn’t help either.