Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Steven Cain, CEO at Coles, said the deal will allow the company to focus on its growing omnichannel supermarket and liquor business. The deal will now be subject to Viva obtaining clearance from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

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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Mass Relators

JANUARY 17, 2024

and the related divestiture plan the retailers offered to allay antitrust concerns, according to court filings. The planned merger has galvanized opposition from the supermarket retailers’ biggest unions and others, including state officials who filed lawsuits claiming that the deal runs afoul of antitrust and consumer protection laws.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nielsen Consumer Insights reported a 37 per cent increase in supermarket coffee sales – with more premium options seeing sales growth of over 40 per cent. The change, Knox explained, has worked well in concert with the way customers have been consuming their coffee.

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A1 Retail

MAY 9, 2023

In addition, almost seven in 10 (69 percent) have been making product “swaps” to save money recently, with over a quarter (27 percent) shifting from supermarket own-brand premium ranges to standard or value ranges, and a similar proportion (24 percent) swapping fresh food for frozen food. The post Consumer spending grew just 4.3

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

New Zealand’s Foodstuffs has received its strongest indication yet that the nation’s competition regulator may block the planned merger of its North and South Island businesses. We are also interested in evidence of the pass-through of any such cost savings into retail consumer prices.”

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you walk up and down the aisles of supermarkets, clothes shops or even furniture stores, you will notice that more brands are shouting about their commitment to protecting the environment, be it via packaging or marketing messages. Retailers must also consider their consumers, and modern consumers are prioritising sustainability.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

contending that consumers will see higher prices and workers will see lower wages if the deal goes through. This supermarket mega merger comes as American consumers have seen the cost of groceries rise steadily over the past few years,” Henry Liu, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, said in a statement.

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365 Retail

JUNE 21, 2021

Chief executive Ken Murphy said plans are in the early stages but he is hopeful it can match the appeal of similar scan-and-go stores being rolled out by Amazon in the UK. We’ve already got plans in place to address the shortfall and we’re working closely with our suppliers,” he added. billion driven by a 68.1%

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

American wholesale retailer Costco has opened its first petrol station in New Zealand, as it counts down to the opening of its first full warehouse store. By opening now, the retailer is giving consumers a reason to buy memberships, which cost $60 for individuals or $55 for businesses.

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Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2021

Despite a burgeoning petcare aisle at its supermarkets, Woolworths Group is hoping to carve out a greater slice of the $2.9 E-commerce offerings in the pet category have prospered during Covid-19 as consumers lean into online services more than ever. billion petcare market with the launch of a new standalone business, Pet Culture.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

The ACCC will not oppose Woolworths Group’s plan to acquire food distributor PFD Food Services following a detailed investigation. And] while there were concerns expressed by some suppliers, many suppliers did not raise competition concerns.”.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 25, 2024

Supermarket operators have sold nonfood products for decades, but they still aren’t getting their fair share of the business. From our perspective, it’s really a question of aligning strategically on a plan for retail with our suppliers,” Graham said. “We What is the strategic plan that we need to lay out going forward?

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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. In some cases, this will involve fast-tracking existing digital plans.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

billion in 2018-19 – gained a foothold in the sector by snapping up rival retail groups including 23 Fivimart supermarkets, 87 Shop&Go convenience stores and the smaller Queenland convenience-store chain, rationalising and rebranding the network under the VinMart banner. They grew quickly, relatively unchallenged by local operators.

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Rangeme

APRIL 18, 2022

The two areas where consumers really excelled, says Breen, were in increasing consumption of plant-based foods and decreasing food waste. Lots of people making simple changes is much better than just a few people making wholesale changes,” he says. Meijer announced this year that it planned to reduce carbon emissions by 50% by 2025.

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365 Retail

MAY 5, 2021

A consortium of investors, led by responsible investment group ShareAction, cheered a “landmark victory” after Tesco widened the scope of its healthy food promise to cover not just its UK and Ireland operations, but also its Central European business and wholesale supplier Booker Group.

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365 Retail

MARCH 20, 2023

Plans are in place to expand the service to additional cities throughout 2023. Just Eat has seen rapid growth in its grocery estate in the UK, expanding to more than 2,500 sites on the platform in the last year to meet increasing consumer demand for convenience grocery.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 15, 2021

The wholesalers serving independent grocers account for more than 44,000 additional jobs (and nearly $3.3 The continued strength and growth of the independent supermarket industry shows consumers are supporting local, community grocers who continue to innovate and bring value to the communities they serve.”.

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Inside Retail

JULY 29, 2021

New Zealand has an effective grocery retailing duopoly that is not serving consumers well, according to a preliminary report from competition regulator the Commerce Commission. Consumer NZ welcomed the preliminary findings and called for legislation to curb the chains’ dominance.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 21, 2023

In similar fashion to the “Great Humanitarian” Herbert Hoover, Obray led Associated Food Stores with the dual aim of maximizing consumer satisfaction and uplifting communities in need. At the time of his passing, Obray was a vocal participant in FMI’s Wholesaler Share Group and an active member of FMI’s Board of Directors.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2023

The OTR deal is yet to gain regulatory approvals but Viva Energy plans to rebrand Coles Express to OTR and establish the headquarters for the merged businesses in Adelaide. RG Withers was one of four grocery wholesalers supplying independent supermarkets when the first 7-Eleven in Australia opened in Oakleigh, Victoria in 1977.

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Inside Retail

JULY 29, 2021

They have a retail-wholesale philosophy — they have their own stores, they’re in large department stores [through concessions] and they hold licences for a bunch of very well loved and established brands. IR: What about that mix of own stores, concessions, wholesale and licencing appeals to you as a retail business model?

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2022

MS: I think it’s just a highly concentrated market when you look at our duopoly in supermarkets, and being a relatively low-population country with a vast geography, it doesn’t make it easy to build up a business in this market. Are there other plans for more store launches moving forward? IR: What makes you say that?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to founder and CEO Shayne Mele, the collaboration between David Jones and Frenchie – which wholesales and operates an online store – represented a “watershed moment” for mainstream, traditional retail. The brand realised 362 per cent year on year growth in 2022, and its offline wholesale retail accounted for 15 per cent of sales.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Retailers are caught in a tightening vise between soaring cost of goods and heavy competitive pressures, which places their margins increasingly at risk as long as they cannot pass through the costs to consumers in their entirety. The country’s Wholesale Price Index is up more than three times the pace of the CPI, at 9.7

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2022

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.

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