Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Conscious consumption is on the rise and two big names in retail have launched new programs to tap into the consumer appetite to shop sustainably. eBay UK describes its new “ Imperfects ” program as “the fashion equivalent to supermarkets’ wonky veg initiatives.” ”

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2022

The issue is perhaps most evident at the nation’s biggest supermarkets, where shelves of fresh produce are once again bare, not because of panic-buying customers, but because of the high numbers of people in the supply chain in isolation. Of those surveyed, 76 per cent said they currently have staff in isolation due to Covid-19 exposure.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On-time shipping rates for the major carriers have declined significantly year-over-year, and longer-than-usual shipping times have been a source of pain for both retailers and their shoppers. Acknowledge Order Inquiry Urgency. Prior to the current environment, cancellations were much less common. Offer More Order Pickup Flexibility.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Australia’s largest supermarket chain, Woolworths, is looking to increase its relevance to consumers through a new online marketplace it launched this week. He thinks Woolworths will start out by targeting its supermarket and Big W shoppers before widening the net. A rival for Catch Group.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

Nearly two-thirds of consumers ( 65% ) say they “love” fewer than three brands, according to a U.S.-based But research from PwC points to a few key factors, including discrepancies between what consumers and executives deem important. based survey conducted by Dynata.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

What does the Australian supermarket chain Coles have in common with the CIA? In a three-year deal, Coles plans to deploy Palantir’s tools across more than 840 supermarkets to cut costs and “redefine how we think about our workforce”. Optimising the workforce We can briefly sketch out three implications of the deal.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2023

Individuals and companies are finding that they can apply the lens of sustainability to virtually any part of their operations — from the raw materials used to make products to how those products are packed for shipping to handling the waste that comes from unsold food.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 19, 2021

Amazon has already established a growing footprint of physical stores, acquiring the up-scale Whole Foods supermarket chain four years ago, along with opening physical bookstores and shops selling electronic goods. They will focus on high-profile consumer brands and Amazon’s own private-label products. .

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2025

The empty pouches can then be returned in a prepaid envelope to Zero Co to be cleaned, refilled and shipped back. Then, when we looked at the carbon footprint of shipping the pouches back to us, the carbon footprint of cleaning them and the amount of water used to clean them, Smith said. By any metric, Zero Co is a success.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Coles and Woolworths are set to stock consumer-grade rapid antigen testing kits for sale, with Coles to stock the kits as soon as next week. Woolworths is also looking to stock the kits in select stores from early November, and said its digital health and wellness business HealthyLife will be able to ship tests to customers as of November 1.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2024

In a supermarket in southern China, live fish swim around in a glass tank bearing a QR code for customers to scan for information about where the fish is from and details of provenance and sustainability in its farming or capture. All of the self checkouts, all of the shelf edges, electronic shelf labels, everything is digital.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

Today, every one in five purchases is made online, largely due to changing consumer habits in the wake of lockdowns and other restrictions. A high level of services unique to each customer, delivered with little or no downtime, is what consumers now expect. Before the pandemic, ecommerce accounted for approximately 16% of all retail.

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The shop is located within a complex made from shipping containers. Aiming to make "buying cannabis as enjoyable as consuming it", the company has prioritised creating products and retail environments that have a nostalgic feel. There is no menu at SuperMarket," the team said. A checkerboard floor defines the space.

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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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

There’s only so much that the international aisle in the supermarket can contain, spurring innovative retailers to tap into this demand. As a result, orders are picked, packed and shipped within Europe, meaning it can provide customers with faster delivery. “In Buying habits of the Brits. We describe ourselves as a cocktail.

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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

MAY 21, 2024

Australian direct-to-consumer brand Who Gives A Crap disrupted the way consumers bought toilet paper almost a decade ago; now its CEO is challenging businesses across the supply chain to “give a crap”. IR: How are companies diminishing consumer trust with unsubstantiated claims and getting away with it?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2024

“There are three major players in the retail industry — the brands that make the products, the retailers that sell the products and the consumer who buys from the retailer,” said Max Rhodes, Co-founder and CEO of B2B marketplace Fa i re. Then with Faire Insider you can get things like free shipping, which is a huge cashflow change for us.”

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Inside Retail

JULY 23, 2023

Cost of living pressures, supply chain issues, weak consumer confidence, interest rate hikes and reduced retail spending are all making retail a tough business to be in at the moment. Reduce advertising costs Nothing is more frustrating for a consumer than looking for a product online, to find it’s out of stock.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This week, Australian supermarket giant Coles appealed to that love by announcing a pick-and-collect service that takes less than 60 minutes , shaving 30 minutes off its existing promise. It’s a trend that will continue as consumers demand more convenience and speed. Customers want convenience and speed.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A campaign to make beauty more accessible and inclusive for people of colour is gaining momentum in Australia and has pressured the country’s biggest supermarkets to take action. Currently, supermarkets don’t routinely stock any foundation shades darker than beige, Willink observed. Supermarkets respond. A long way to go.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2023

Vegemite first hit Australian supermarket shelves in 1923, but it took a while to find its feet. As the Germans began sinking ships full of British supplies to Australia, Marmite disappeared from the shelves. The second world war also disrupted shipping supply routes. Vegemite competition advertisement, 1937.

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Rangeme

MAY 17, 2022

Logistics costs add to the pressure, with the world’s shipping and freight companies also trying to re-orient themselves in the wake of the pandemic. And the economic landscape is not the only pressure on supermarket prices. For supermarkets’ suppliers, meanwhile, this bout of inflation poses some serious challenges. In the U.K.,

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2023

Founded in 2015, Freshippo operates more than 300 supermarkets across 27 cities in Mainland China. The trip was an opportunity for the business to gain a deeper understanding of Australia’s supermarket duopoly, Coles and Woolworths, as well as establish ties with more than 40 Australian FMCG brands.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Supermarket giant, tick. In particular, Louis Vuitton’s 2000sqm outdoor installation honouring late artistic director Virgil Abloh is an absolute showstopper, featuring oversized sculptures, custom LV-branded shipping containers and giant technicolour murals. Major department store, tick. Global fast-fashion retailer, tick.

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Inside Retail

JULY 20, 2021

“People don’t know how their supermarkets are stocked up.”. He was speaking to Reuters from the Pacific Ocean as his ship now heads to Australia. Another 100,000 are stuck on shore, unable to board the ships they need to earn a living on. The Delta variant devastating parts of Asia – home to many of the world’s 1.7

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Retail Times

MARCH 29, 2021

It’s no secret that consumer expectations today are higher than ever. Industry data shows that 1 in 10 shoppers will stop buying from a retailer because of slow delivery and only 46% of consumers are happy with how long it takes for orders to arrive. Suffice it to say that order fulfillment is a big deal for modern consumers.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 20, 2022

Last week, rural NSW-based direct-to-consumer meat subscription Our Cow opened up to equity investment, and breezed past its target of $1.5 Just this week we started shipping to Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania, so it’s really exciting.”. And investors are beginning to realise it. million with two weeks left.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The retailer’s ‘gifting’ panels, located at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Federation Square in Melbourne and in Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall are positioned to serve consumers with a speedy and convenient shopping experience while they are out and about in the lead up to Christmas.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2023

It did regress in recent years, as coffee is growing, but the wonderful thing is that we have young consumers who are enjoying afternoon teas, and are looking to different tea gardens trying to understand the origins. We believe that any consumer, but particularly in the luxury space, has the right to know where their products come from.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 24, 2022

According to Woolworths Group chief executive Brad Banducci, the business was hit on all sides by supply chain disruptions, product shortages, team absenteeism, and flood damages, while also witnessing a shift in consumer behaviour driven by rising prices.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On-premise channels have been particularly hard hit, while despite operational pressures the off-premise has ultimately benefited from consumer stay-at-home orders. And in brands delivering direct to consumer (D2C). Some wineries offer consumers free shipping for “lockdown packs”. E-commerce channels expand.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 5, 2023

With the cost-of-living crisis at the forefront of shoppers’ minds, it’s no surprise so shoppers have jumped ship from the traditional big four supermarkets to discounters. It ultimately chose not to pass on these cost increases to consumers, but invested instead in keeping prices low” Indeed, Lidl added more than 1.4

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

” “The way fashion is produced and consumed needs to change – this is an undeniable truth,” H&M said. Africa awash At the Barcelona plant, garments arrive from more than 7,000 donation bins in supermarkets and Zara and Mango stores. Moda Re says the clothes it exports can be reused.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2022

In an exclusive interview with Inside Retail , Deena Bahri, StockX’s chief marketing officer, revealed the thinking behind the new campaign, which was created in partnership with New York-based creative agency Mojo Supermarket. In total, the business has 11 authentication centres worldwide and ships to more than 200 countries.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since Taobao began shipping to Southeast Asia in 2017, customers yearned for more accessible customer support internationally. As most of the furniture sold on Taobao are BTO (build-to-order) and directly imported from China, shipping these orders would still require a minimum of two weeks.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Potts joined the supermarket in 2015 after almost four decades at Tesco, where he started on the shop floor aged 16 and rose through the ranks to run its Asian operations. Perhaps with M&S now motoring, Norman might jump ship to see if he can perform a similar feat at its rival? Sound familiar?

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