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Kmart MD talks Target merger, shrinkage, and adapting to customer behaviour

Inside Retail

Labour, leases, and clearance stock So, what are those levers? According to Bailey, the Kmart Group business has three main costs which it can reliably predict: labour, leases, and clearance stock. Both supermarkets also explained that organised crime syndicates are becoming more sophisticated, and are hitting harder.

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Rob Scott: ‘Some of our locations may be suitable as vaccination points’

Inside Retail

We also continue to encourage our team to get vaccinated and they can use personal leave to attend appointments,” a spokesperson for the supermarket told Inside Retail. We’re currently doing half that and don’t have the stocks to catch up for at least another three months,” Bilsborough told Inside Retail. Slow rollout.

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Co-op under fire as secret footage shows ‘deformed and dying’ chickens at supplier farms

Retail Gazette

Charity Open Cages filmed from August to November last year at three East Midlands farms supplying the supermarket and said their findings revealed chickens “in a horrendous state”, suffering because they are bred to grow much more quickly than their bodies can cope with for a faster turnover.

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Getir and the rapid rise – and equally rapid downfall – of speedy grocery

Retail Gazette

Turning a blind eye to the mediocre performances of longer standing competitors Deliveroo, Amazon and Just Eat, venture capitalists and start up CEOs forged their way to misguided glory, chasing mirages of untold successes down a dead end path. So what have we learnt from the speedy grocery era? But they also want choice.

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How the emergence of online shopping will change the face of bricks and mortar grocery retail

Mike Anthony

Despite the hyperbola you read in the press, bricks and mortar grocery is far from dead. The average supermarket around the world is still configured to win with shoppers from a different era. Twenty years ago, the majority of shoppers in a hypermarket or superstore were doing a stock up shop: that is not the case today.

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Reinventing the phone shop: Dialling up the experience

Retail Gazette

That’s not to say the mobile phone shop is dead. Meanwhile, supermarkets including Tesco and Sainsbury’s have long had a stake in the market. A new breed of concept phone store are popping up in a bid to rival tech giants Apple and Samsung.

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How the Supply Chain Disruption Is Sparking Holiday Risk & Resilience

Rangeme

Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end job.’ Out-of-stocks. To avoid out-of-stocks, many companies have conscientiously prepared for an earlier surge in holiday shopping. Recent labor shortages prompted some supermarket chains to shorten their store hours.