Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Woolworths has outlined ways it will support its staff and customers during the next two weeks in Sydney, as the city and surrounding areas struggle with its second major lockdown. The business has once again instituted two-per-person limits on toilet paper, as buying sprees led to a shortage of product once more. And while customers are already scrambling to get their hands on pantry items and toiletries, Banducci urged shoppers to treat their staff with kindness and respect.

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Nvidia

JUNE 27, 2021

NVIDIA technologies power 342 systems on the TOP500 list released at the ISC High Performance event today, including 70 percent of all new systems and eight of the top 10. The latest ranking of the world’s most powerful systems shows high performance computing centers are increasingly adopting AI. It also demonstrates that users continue to embrace the combination of NVIDIA AI, accelerated computing and networking technologies to run their scientific and commercial workloads.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Metcash has announced it is upping its stake in Total Tools, from 70 per cent to 85 per cent, at a cost of $59.4 million. The decision comes as the tools business saw impressive growth since Metcash took its initial stake last September, with Total Tools’ EBIT for the eight months to 30 April 2021 hitting $24 million. And, in order to speed up and facilitate the business’ growth plans, which include an expansion of its store network, Metcash has increased its debt facility to Total Tools from $4

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Retail Insider

JUNE 27, 2021

Visiting the Tillingham Winery in the rolling countryside on the edge of the East Sussex town of Rye was not only a relief to be out of stuffy London on what was a gloriously hot day but it also gave some insights into what hospitality businesses might well need to embrace in the post-covid-19 world. Founded in 2018 by Ben Walgate, former chief executive of Gusbourne, it is an organic operation producing natural wine using biodynamic practices with 25 acres of planted vines on 70 acres of woodla

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Alibaba is expanding its membership-driven hypermarket chain Store X, bringing together its best practices from online and offline shopping, as it seeks to capitalise on China’s burgeoning middle class. Two new stores opened last week, offering a supersized format of Alibaba’s Freshippo supermarkets to paying members. For RMB258 (US$40) a year, members can avail of benefits such as free deliveries, VIP customer support, a car wash and optician services.

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The Retail Creative and Consulting Agency

JUNE 27, 2021

Sound On. Go To Where the Customer Is. That’s what they said. Did you? Hope So. If you haven’t yet….let me lay it out for you. You’re going to leave no stone unturned to connect with your clients… be it…carrier pigeon, landline, email, and of course, text. TEXTING has become a robust part of omnichannel retail. If you are not texting your clients – Start Now.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Meal-kit maker HelloFresh is to open a new 25,500sqm production facility at Ravenhall in Victoria next month. Described as the largest such facility of its kind in the nation – and nicknamed Tuckerbox – the new production and distribution centre will speed deliveries to Victorian destinations and nearby states, as well as reduce delivery distances for the company’s suppliers.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Aldi has become the first Australian member of UK-based Slave-Free Alliance, a social enterprise that works with and supports businesses to create a supply chain free of slavery. The partnership comes almost a year after Aldi identified a number of high risk areas in its local supply chain. Together, the businesses will conduct a ‘Human Rights Risk Assessment’ of Aldi’s local supply chain operations, and will roll out ‘Modern Slavery Awareness Training’ for the supermarket’s local employees and

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Meal-kit maker HelloFresh is to open a new 25,500sqm production facility at Ravenhall in Victoria next month. Described as the largest such facility of its kind in the nation – and nicknamed Tuckerbox – the new production and distribution centre will speed deliveries to Victorian destinations and nearby states, as well as reduce delivery distances for the company’s suppliers.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

Datalogic has unveiled the new QuickScan QD2500 2D imager, designed to be a cashier’s ideal partner at the POS check-out, never letting them down in data capture. Personnel using the robust QuickScan QD2500 can be assured of extreme scanning accuracy and avoiding erroneous or accidental readings. Busy checkout workers need to promptly read whatever the barcode is, no matter if it is hard-to-read, poorly printed, or damaged.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2021

In an effort to connect the beauty and gaming communities, Benefit Cosmetics is taking its 2020 Game Face campaign to the next level with the launch of a Twitch channel for female-identifying gamers. With the tagline “Get your game face on,” gamers are encouraged to live-stream themselves using Benefit Cosmetics products to create their favourite makeup looks.

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