Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Discount supermarket chain Aldi is continuing its aggressive expansion across the U.S., with plans to add approximately 150 new stores to a fleet that already includes 2,100 locations in 37 states. Aldi also plans to increase its number of locations offering curbside pickup from 1,200 to 1,500 by the end of 2022.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 24, 2024

Today, there are more than 50 franchise locations and 500 head-office staff across Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Indonesia, and there are plans to open 30 more new shops in Australia alone this year. The brand’s latest shop just opened in Sydney’s Surry Hills in April. IR: Why Bondi Beach?

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VMS

JULY 21, 2021

Foxtrot (Chicago), the high-end convenience/corner store concept, is planning to open 50 stores throughout the U.S. during the next two years, reports Supermarket News. It plans to open locations in regions like Houston, Miami, Boston, Los Angeles, New York and Austin, Texas; it already has locations in Washington, D.C.,

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Federal Group plans to sell 20 of its 9/11 stores in Tasmania to Coles Liquor Group, including hotel-attached and stand-alone locations. Following the sale, Federal Group plans to reinvest in its overall business, as well as its hotel and tourism assets. All 9/11 employees will reportedly be offered employment with Coles Liquor.

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Retail Focus

JULY 28, 2021

Their apps open, supermarket executives also enquire: “But who’ll own the data …?”. Second, think about how retail and supermarket buildings could be affected: Just Walk Out will also mean “just walk in, anywhere.” The post Why Amazon’s New “Just Walk Out” Supermarkets Will Change Everything.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 10, 2024

Greggs has opened 2,500 stores in the UK, as it steams ahead with its five-year growth plan. The bakery giant launched its latest store in Sainsbury’s Bridgeway in Cobham, based on a petrol forecourt, marking its eighth shop opened with the grocer and 50th store opened with supermarket partners.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Woolworths has announced its intention to build a 22,000sqm online fulfilment centre located in Auburn, Sydney, which will facilitate up to 50,000 online orders per week. We’ve seen an extraordinary acceleration in online grocery shopping over the past year,” said Bardwell. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2023

The identification, payment, loyalty membership and entry solutions are currently deployed at a total of more than 400 locations in the U.S., including 200 Whole Foods supermarkets, and have clocked more than 3 million uses to date.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2021

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. “SEND is redefining the way an entire generation shops for groceries and daily essentials, making it possible to get the things you need delivered in under 15 minutes.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

And it doesn’t plan to stop there. On Monday, the platform announced a partnership with supermarket giant Woolworths , which will see over 1200 products from its Metro stores in Sydney and Melbourne available to order on the Uber Eats app from next week. ?and? Changing shopping habits. effortless? ?way? groceries? ?delivered?

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Woolworths Group has pulled the plug on plans to open a Dan Murphy’s store in Darwin after an independent panel ruled that the development should not go ahead. While food customers are still shopping less frequently, the growth in the number of items customers put in their baskets is slowing. Total Group sales reached $16.5

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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. The post Sustainable shopping: what options are available to retailers? What’s on your shelves?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2020

DoorDash , best known for restaurant deliveries, is expanding further into the supermarket vertical through partnerships with Meijer , Fresh Thyme and Smart & Final , with plans to add Hy-Vee and Gristedes / D’Agostino “in the coming weeks,” wrote Mike Goldblatt, Head of Grocery and Convenience Partnerships at DoorDash in a blog post.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2022

A $250 million development plan is set to transform a 3.6ha Adelaide plot into a modern food and retail-oriented mixed-use centre featuring apartments and a piazza-style market square. The land was then sold to German hypermarket Kaufland which planned to build a flagship store there before cancelling plans to launch in Australia in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Chinese on-demand delivery platform Dada Group is beefing up its 415 Intra-City Shopping Festival, a sales event focused on quick delivery offerings taking place April 8-17, 2022. As with many other Chinese shopping festivals, the launch of new products will play a large role in the event.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Healthy supermarket retailer Planet Organic plans to launch its new south-west London store in Teddington at the end of February 2023. Planet Organic is the UK’s largest fully certified organic supermarket, and the largest chain of Soil Association accredited stores.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

With two thirds of Brits shopping with the business, Aldi is aiming to open another 20 new stores before the end of the year, as part of its £1.3bn two-year investment plan to meet growing demand in the UK. Its bid to open 500 new stores to reach its target of 1,500 means the company is on the hunt for more locations across the UK.

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Inside Retail

JULY 3, 2023

Scentre Group is looking for an investor interested in taking a 50-per-cent stake in its Westfield Whitford City shopping mall in WA. The centre is located 20kms north of Perth in the coastal suburb of Hillarys and is expected to fetch around $250 million.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 7, 2024

. — ALDI, already known for its rapid growth, has unveiled plans to increase its store count by 800 locations across the country by the end of 2028. Incorporating the Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket chains into its operations will help Aldi significantly boost its presence in the Southeast in the coming years.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2021

Discount supermarket Aldi is making a push into convenience with the opening this week of a Corner Store concept in North Sydney. The new store layout is designed to support smaller-basket, convenience-driven purchases, in contrast to the traditional big-box Aldi supermarket typically frequented by consumers for larger shopping trips.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In early 2022, it will open a store in Sydney’s Lane Cove and it plans to set up new locations later in the year. “Our footprint is traditionally smaller than an average full-line supermarket (but some of our newer stores are tending towards that size),” he said. ” More expansion plans for 2022.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

After opening its newest store this week, Melbourne chain Daniel’s Donuts says it plans to expand its network from 25 stores to 40 by the end of this year. The company purchased the Hogan’s Corner space to add to its 25 other locations in Victoria. It trades from 5am to midnight.

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Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2023

Gander, a new mobile app designed to help Australian shoppers and supermarkets tackle the issue of food waste, launched in Australia earlier this month. The issue isn’t just exacerbated by customers tossing their scraps, but from supermarkets rejecting oddly shaped fruits and vegetables as well.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 10, 2023

Shopping strips are facing increasing challenges, and not just because of retail competition. While there is still a lingering Covid shadow on some shopping strips, including those in capital city central business districts (CBDs), other factors are impacting the viability of suburban retail precincts.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Discount retailer Aldi may be a novice when it comes to in-store technology in Australia, but it has plans afoot in the UK to launch an advanced system that will replace checkout entirely. Woolworths introduced it in supermarkets in 2018, as a trial at its store in Sydney’s Double Bay. Shoppers love it or hate it.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Asda has launched its programme to convert 116 former Co-op convenience stores and attached petrol station forecourts into Asda Express shops. The supermarket has rebranded 11 Asda Express stores so far in locations including Yorkshire and Devon. Asda acquired 132 sites from rival supermarket Co-op last year under a £438m deal.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 17, 2023

Costco, a well-known discount retailer, is reportedly planning to open 14 new warehouses across the UK within the next two years. According to The Sun , the company is currently in the process of identifying suitable locations for these new stores and hopes to commence operations as soon as possible.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Sales over the period hit a 33-year high, surging 14% to £15.5bn, thanks to “a new generation of savvy shoppers turning their back on traditional, full price supermarkets”. The grocer, which operates more than 1,000 UK stores, said it plans to open 18 new locations before the end of the year and create 6,000 new jobs.

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Dezeen

JANUARY 7, 2023

Our first lookbook of 2023 collects 10 pop-up shop interiors from around the world, from a swimming-pool-style store by fashion brand Jacquemus to a playful supermarket stocked with groceries made of felt. Showcasing a variety of material and colour palettes, here are 10 pop-up shops featured on Dezeen. Photo by Gray Hamner.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2024

Last week, Amazon -owned grocery chain Whole Foods announced the launch of a new format store, Whole Foods Market Daily Shop, to make grocery shopping more convenient for urban consumers. The first location is expected to open in New York City later this year.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Poundland has set out plans to offer an alternative to the big grocers by accelerating ‘Project Diamond’ which will bring new ranges to between 275 and 300 more stores between now and Autumn 2023. Last week a major supermarket increased the price of its meal deal to as much as £3.90 from £3.00.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The business, which owns and operates fashion brands Millers, Rockmans, Noni B, Rivers, Katies, Autograph, W Lane, Crossroads and Beme, unveiled its ‘Big Strategy’ last week, with plans to expand its bricks-and-mortar presence across the country. You get a lot more space for less money, and typically in retail the bigger the shop, the better.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Geezy Go, an online-only supermarket that launched in Sydney in August, is setting up shop in Melbourne on Wednesday and will soon hit New Zealand as part of its rapid expansion plan. “We’re The business plans to expand to 200 locations globally by the end of this year, and New Zealand is next on the cards.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Geezy Go, an online-only supermarket that launched in Sydney in August, is setting up shop in Melbourne on Wednesday and will soon hit New Zealand as part of its rapid expansion plan. “We’re The business plans to expand to 200 locations globally by the end of this year, and New Zealand is next on the cards.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These are pressing questions that many in the industry will be asking themselves in the final few big shopping days of the year. Bali Christmas honeymoon Chadstone, Australia’s biggest shopping centre, anticipates hosting half a million visitors this week and 4.5 Here is what’s happening.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2022

In recent years, cafes, supermarkets and online shops have started to trial drone delivery in a handful of locations around the world. These are newer suburbs where drone flight paths can be planned to eliminate or minimise safety issues, such as an unexpected crash. As you would expect, the answer is “it depends”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2021

Now, Verizon Business has teamed up with AiFi — a provider of AI-powered computer vision technology — to bring an autonomous shopping experience to the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500. The fully autonomous NanoStore is customizable and can be operated in any location with Verizon 5G coverage. In the U.S.,

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