Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2022

Australia has experienced plenty of supermarket shortages since the COVID pandemic began. In 2020 and 2021, empty shelves were due to spikes in demand, as shoppers responded to lockdowns by buying more toilet paper, pasta and other consumables. A self-fulfilling crisis. Fear of shortages become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2021

Coles’ Smarter Selling strategy is paying off for the Australian supermarket giant, with approximately $300 million in extra savings in the bank at the end of FY21. Coles’ supermarkets, liquor and express business units reported strong sales, which were up 3.1 I would expect supermarkets to remain subdued moving into FY22.”.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

A new on-demand delivery app is connecting consumers with personal shoppers who will go in-store to make a purchase for them and bring it to their doorstep within two hours. Online shopping is convenient, but it often falls down when it comes to delivery times,” Bartalotta told Inside Retail. “It’s

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Inside Retail

MAY 5, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic and its associated lockdowns and changes to consumer sentiment have had an obvious impact on all retail sectors. This was followed by almost equally large declines as many consumers had over-stocked their pantries. Even before Covid hit, the nature of ‘grocery stores’ or ‘supermarkets’ was evolving.

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Mass Relators

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Designed to serve customers when and how they want to shop, GIANT Direct gives consumers the opportunity to order groceries online for pickup or delivery at giantdirect.com. The post GIANT debuts two Philadelphia supermarkets appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers. The store also offers GIANT Direct.

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Retail Gazette

AUGUST 15, 2023

Just a decade ago, high streets and malls were awash with mobile phone shops with a seemingly endless number of places to peruse the latest Blackberry or Samsung Galaxy. That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. As telco retailers look to become more experience-led, is this the end of the phone shop as we know it?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These experiences could go further through partnerships with supermarkets, where a QR code enables the consumer to fill their shopping basket with all the ingredients for a week’s worth of recipes and buy them with one tap on their mobile device. Lucy Cunningham is Enterprise Sales Director at InfoSum.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It found that 67% of consumers believe that the best shopping experiences of the future will incorporate both human and digital channels. However, that’s not the aspect of their brands that consumers are craving today. The problem is that retailers are not taxis, and what works for the goose doesn’t always work for the gander.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

Globally, we are undergoing great consumer transformation. We no longer, as a general rule, expect supermarkets to be physical-only entities. We need to be able to shop these brands 24/7, and Coles knows the only way they can do that is by investing capital.”. times more with Coles in total, than those that only shop in store”.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 8, 2024

Essentially a high street store with no shop front. A mini boarded up warehouse next to your local coffee shop. Dark stores are fulfilment centres only. The market and consumer demand have changed with lightning speed with May 2022 being the crunch point. There is no sense of community or local integration.

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2023

Earlier this year, rapid delivery grocery start-up Milkrun went from competing with Australia’s grocery chains to being absorbed by Australia’s biggest supermarket giant. Meanwhile, Woolworths’ strong cash flow, and robust back-end systems and processes – including its IT, fulfillment, and customer management – are complementary.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

For customers, many aspects of a shopping trip impact whether they view it as a success. grocery shoppers, 78% of consumers have experienced out-of-stock products in-store over the last 12 months, and 68% have experienced the same issue online. According to a Retail Insight survey of over 1,000 U.S. Three in 10 U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2023

These markets offer a level playing field where digital commerce is everything, most major players are relative unknowns and companies will need to develop new strategies to succeed, according to The Next Billion Consumers: A Fast Growing Opportunity for Digital Commerce report from Accenture.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

“This model is in response to a sustained increase in online shopping that is seen within the existing supermarket network, while also providing a reduced Covid-19 risk for customers,” a Woolworths spokesperson said. Who doesn’t want to get in, pick up their shopping and get out? “I I reckon it will be a roaring success.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2022

As the end of the year approaches, retailers and shopping centres in Malaysia are seeing increased foot traffic and sales volumes, as shoppers come back with a vengeance to purchase gifts and other items for Christmas and New Year festivities. Changing consumer behaviour. Early signs of polarisation.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Click and collect was a well-established channel prior to the Covid-19 pandemic and proved popular with a subset of regular consumers. And curbside shopping has been lucrative: Retailers in Australia and around the world that implemented the option during Covid largely thrived. Curbside collection gives consumers choice and control.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The pair said they want to disrupt the nation’s $122 billion a year grocery industry by delivering grocery orders within 15 minutes and doing away with the need for consumers to carry out a weekly shop. Voly is the supermarket of the future that is built around our customers, not the other way around.”.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

While Australia’s uptake of online grocery shopping has been slow compared to other economically developed countries like the UK, the pandemic has accelerated adoption rates in the last 12-18 months, with more and more Australians now leaning on these services. This month alone, four new online supermarkets launched in Australia.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The figures are cycling periods of massive growth for the supermarket sector, landed well within analysts’ predictions, and showed that Coles is holding on well through the pandemic, despite supply-chain issues. When we look at our e-commerce customers, they’re still shopping in stores. Remuneration costs left unresolved.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Left with little choice, consumers have largely resigned themselves to waiting additional days or even weeks for their orders, but what they’ve become less willing to tolerate is a lack of information about order status. The pandemic has radically accelerated an existing shift from in-person shopping to ecommerce.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2023

They covered how brands can provide elevated and curated customer experiences and how clear differentiation, and even re-invention, can be critical to meeting consumer demand and providing a sustainable future for retailers. What mattered was, were we serving the consumer in the way the consumer preferred?”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2021

A toy shop that gave the world Barbie, Mr. Potato Head and other wonderful creations. But it turned out that the emporium of toys, games and fun could not in the end withstand the relentless competition and margin hits from the internet and supermarket retailers. Remember Toys ‘R’ Us? and abroad. In 2017, the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2021

Propelled by new technologies and heightened consumer demand, some segments that had been slower to gain traction online finally moved into the digital fast lane — cars , adult beverages and even trees , to name just a few. And yet, the consumer demand is there, and it’s becoming hard for retailers to ignore, no matter their category.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 20, 2021

Indeed, John Roberts, CEO of AO World, recently said that he believed the shift to online shopping was a permanent one. Many people have fallen back in love with their communities and wish to support local shops and brands. . Stores in local high streets will also play an important role to fulfil online orders.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Speedy delivery is the name of the game for supermarket retailers all over the world right now, as major chains invest in micro fulfilment centres and explore dark stores in an effort to keep up with customers’ rising expectations during the pandemic. How big is Missfresh now? Missfresh generated RMB 6.1 billion revenue ($943.7

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

If retailers think online shopping in 2021 is about the simple exchange of goods for money, they’re doing it wrong. This can be even more challenging as COVID-19 accelerated the move to online shopping more than any other time in history. A decade ago, the average consumer typically used two touch points when purchasing an item.

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Inside Retail

JULY 21, 2021

Premium Korean auto brand Genesis Studio has recently opened at Vicinity’s Melbourne Emporium, the first of its kind in the shopping centre. Meanwhile, online retailer Carexpert opened a physical space at Westfield Warringah Shopping Centre in April. Korean luxury auto brand drives into Melbourne Emporium.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 12, 2022

ShopRite Supermarkets Inc. this week unveiled a free-standing pod at one if its stores in suburban New York where customers who shop online can pick up their groceries. the nation’s largest supermarket cooperative. the nation’s largest supermarket cooperative. KEASBEY, N.J. ShopRite says that the QuickCollect GO !

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2022

Defined as delivery in under an hour and often less than 30 minutes from order placement, quick commerce, also known as on-demand delivery or instant-needs fulfilment, is e-commerce on steroids. Quick-commerce operators are thus building dark stores and micro-fulfilment centres at a rapid rate. How are consumers using quick commerce?

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Retail Gazette

JULY 19, 2023

Richard Tompkins, the founder of The Green Shield Stamp Trading Company, was the mastermind of the concept and decided to open the store after he was inspired by the new phenomenon for catalogue shopping that had taken off in the US. It was a precursor to how we shop digitally today. Meaning ‘swift’ in Greek, Argos was born.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Covid pandemic has changed the way consumers shop and interact with brands. 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.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2020

The adaptations consumers have made during the pandemic to work, learn, shop and socialize from their homes are projected to last well beyond the time when the coronavirus is just an unpleasant memory. Additionally, 56% of consumers said they’re buying more locally sourced products, and 84% of this group plan to continue doing this.

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Mike Anthony

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The starting point is to recognise that consumers’ and shoppers’ priorities will change as the economic climate shifts. Focus on the consumers and shoppers that will deliver most value The starting point is to understand which shoppers are important, and which are not (or less). The vast majority of shoppers do not shop only on price.

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Mass Relators

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Consumers flocked online for essential purchases, adding $102.08 Overall in 2021, consumers spent $870.78 They almost exclusively use their existing stores as fulfillment outlets to enhance convenience and get the product to the consumer as economically as possible. billion in revenue in 2020, and another $116.45

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2021

billion ) buoyed by the consolidation of the Sun Art supermarket business, in which Alibaba took a controlling stake in October 2020. Overall, online physical goods GMV grew 21% YoY in fiscal year 2021, driven primarily by the FMCG [ fast moving consumer goods ] and home furnishings categories. billion yuan ( $109.5 billion ). .

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Rangeme

MAY 19, 2022

Leading the way in industry influence, Amazon shapes global retail standards and shopping habits. To stay competitive, more retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers are taking specific actions to emulate Amazon’s signature inventiveness and customer obsession. Walmart to build local fulfillment centers at dozens of stores.

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Retail Focus

MAY 24, 2021

The events of the past year have sparked a permanent redrawing of the retail landscape, with online grocery sales soaring 91% year-on-year in a four-week period alone in 2020 and over 17 million Brits planning to stick to online shopping even as lockdown eases. Embrace agile models.

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