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Chinese retailers’ pricing strategy risks ‘vicious cycle’ of low margins

Inside Retail

A shift in Chinese retailers’ strategy toward lower-priced goods and services to win cost-conscious consumers risks embedding the country’s recent deflationary trends more permanently into the world’s second-largest economy. This stands to create more headwinds for China’s stuttering post-Covid recovery.

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How online supermarket Send can fulfil bold promise of 15-minute delivery

Inside Retail

An exclusively online supermarket is rolling out across metro Sydney and Melbourne this month to capitalise on the demand for quick and convenient grocery delivery. It is also planning to work closely with local vendors and provodores to access fresh produce. 15-minute delivery . 15-minute delivery .

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Revealed: The science behind Aldi’s Special Buys strategy

Inside Retail

Even if you weren’t planning to look, you might now be intrigued. While Aldi isn’t the only retailer to use this form of limited-time offer, and certainly not the first, its Special Buys have become synonymous with the brand and a huge hit among consumers. The part about discounted prices is obvious. Let’s explore a few.

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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. . Requiring grocery retailers to display unit pricing in a consistent format. Suite of recommendations.

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Tesco confident it can ‘deliver Christmas’ despite industrial action

365 Retail

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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Tesco workers to launch pre-Christmas strikes

365 Retail

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. The union said the company had offered a 4% pay rise, describing it as “well below” the current retail price index (RPI) inflation rate of 6%.

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Category Managers. The kind of people the world needs more of.

Shopper Intelligence

The supermarket shelf. Category” is one of those few parts of consumer goods life where it’s our job to bridge the divides, bring people together and align different objectives. Retailer vs Supplier. First, I could be talking here about where the world of the retailer and the supplier collide. Category Managers.