Inside Retail

JUNE 26, 2023

IGA owner Metcash says sales across all retail pillars remain “strong” and the business is actively managing increased cost pressures. billion on a normalised basis while supermarket sales rose 2.1 For the year to April 30, group revenue rose 6.2 per cent to $15.8 billion while underlying tax-paid profit was up 4.6 per cent to $307.5

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2022

It’s no secret that in-person shopping is a multi-sensory experience. While most know that it’s important to make a store visually appealing, including proper lighting and designing an interior layout that’s easy to navigate, many often forget the other senses that play a key role in the overall shopping experience — like sound.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

While this may sound positive for supermarkets, it also brings new challenges. First, supermarkets must determine exactly how much inventory to order so as not to waste food or purchase insufficient supplies. Transform shopping in-store. Innovating the in-store experience can give stores a great return on investment.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Victorians can now return their used Tetra Pak beverage cartons for recycling and receive a 10c refund following the launch of Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme (CDS). “Responsible waste management and recycling practices are critical for the health of our environment,” remarked Paul Zahra, CEO of ARA.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2023

This can be seen by the adoption of QR codes – the use of which accelerated amid Covid-19 restrictions – self checkout in supermarkets and autonomous mobile robots, which are being utilised by major retailers for (among other things) logistical, supply chain and other inventory management tasks.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 18, 2023

If you shop in a mainstream supermarket, chances are you’ll be familiar with member prices. Retail Gazette looks at why so many supermarkets have adopted this approach, whether it’s proving successful, and how loyalty programmes can stand out when so many retailers are offering member prices.

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365 Retail

JUNE 21, 2021

The news comes as Tesco revealed sales managed to stay in positive territory in the 13 weeks to May 29 compared with a year ago, despite the same period in 2020 being during the height of the first lockdown when supermarket shelves were stripped bare. We’re seeing higher frequency shopping and we’re seeing smaller basket sizes.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2024

As the driving force behind a new era of hyper-personalisation, efficiency and sustainable retail experiences, its impact on the way we shop cannot be understated. And how will it shape the way we shop? Today’s consumers are craving a truly unique shopping experience.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 8, 2023

Scotsman Ian McLeod has built his retail career around managing transformation, having worked on every continent of the planet except Antarctica – “There are not many stores there,” he quipped. We’ve seen that so often in retail, at the shop floor level. If you are in any sort of mass-market retail, value matters.

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Secure Retail

MAY 26, 2022

We are looking for a Returns and Test Technician to join a great, friendly team here on the Bardon Industrial Estate in Coalville, Leicestershire. Every time you make a payment in a shop, restaurant, pub or supermarket in the UK, there’s a good chance it will be made on a payment device we’ve supplied.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 31, 2021

Supermarkets and hauliers have warned that shoppers could face long-term higher prices for food as result of systemic changes to the supply chain. File photo dated 24/07/2020 of a shopper in a supermarket in east London. File photo dated 24/07/2020 of a shopper in a supermarket in east London. Issue date: Tuesday April 27, 2021.

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Secure Retail

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are looking for a Returns and Test Technician to join a great, friendly team here on the Bardon Industrial Estate in Coalville, Leicestershire. Every time you make a payment in a shop, restaurant, pub or supermarket in the UK, there’s a good chance it will be made on a payment device we’ve supplied.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 17, 2023

The supermarket boss claimed major grocers like Sainsbury’s had returned to popularity as customers seek to buy all their groceries in one place, instead of searching around multiple shops for bargains. While the supermarket’s share of the grocery market rose to 15.6% to 9.6%, according to Kantar.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Self check-out solutions have increasingly become a critical aspect of the supermarket shopping experience for consumers, with an estimated two-thirds of shoppers reporting a preference for automated technologies over interacting with a human check-out operator. The technology itself, however, isn’t without its drawbacks.

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A1 Retail

JULY 27, 2022

Shoppers returned to stores, with in-store visits up 10% compared with the same time last year, accelerating from the +7% last seen in June. Total Till grocery sales at UK supermarkets surged +4.4% Total Till grocery sales surged +4.4% in the last four weeks ending 16th July, rising to +5.6% 1 NielsenIQ Scantrack Grocery Multiples.

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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2022

To raise funds for Indigenous health this NAIDOC week, Coles supermarkets and Express stores in the NT and select regional stores in Western Australia (WA) have launched a ‘Purple House’ campaign. In the past three years, Purple House has offered 10,000 remote dialysis treatments and supported more than 300 patients.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2021

Supermarket Coles will spend $2.5 The business will seek to improve its online shopping, as well as its self-service checkouts, data and automation across its warehouses, in an effort to streamline the experiences and make it even simpler for Australians to buy their groceries.

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2023

Earlier this year, rapid delivery grocery start-up Milkrun went from competing with Australia’s grocery chains to being absorbed by Australia’s biggest supermarket giant. Meanwhile, Woolworths’ strong cash flow, and robust back-end systems and processes – including its IT, fulfillment, and customer management – are complementary.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 23, 2021

Morrisons agreed a £7 billion offer on Thursday evening in the latest twist in the UK supermarket chain’s dramatic takeover battle. UK supermarkets have been buoyed by the pandemic over the past year as sales were boosted by the closure of non-essential shops and hospitality firms. Who has agreed to buy Morrisons?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Here are some examples covering the spectrum of diversification, from a continuist perspective to more disruptive cases: In July 2021, John Lewis revealed plans to become a private landlord by building 10,000 new homes over the next 10 years on land currently used as car parks and above Waitrose supermarkets across the UK.

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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. Whole Foods Market Daily Shop is not the grocery retailer’s first foray into smaller storefronts.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Images of shoppers are processed in a data saving manner and only used to enable cashless shopping. Dr Seshan Ramaswami, associate professor of marketing at Singapore Management University, believes that rising labour costs will drive more supermarkets around the world to experiment with checkout-free stores.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

“This model is in response to a sustained increase in online shopping that is seen within the existing supermarket network, while also providing a reduced Covid-19 risk for customers,” a Woolworths spokesperson said. Who doesn’t want to get in, pick up their shopping and get out? “I I reckon it will be a roaring success.

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Tesco is extending its zero-waste shopping service from online to stores to allow people to buy products from laundry detergent to ketchup in refillable packaging. Customers in 10 Tesco stores in the east of England can now buy products in reusable packaging that can be returned when finished so it can be cleaned, refilled and used again.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even before the pandemic, the bricks and mortar aspect of the retail sector was undergoing major changes as the battle to attract people into stores, rather than shop online, intensified. Supermarkets, for example, are targeting promotions based on different areas of their stores or using screens to manage queues.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It found that 67% of consumers believe that the best shopping experiences of the future will incorporate both human and digital channels. Instead, they want the creativity and storytelling that used to come from interactions with real humans on the shopping floor. Recent research from Khoros bears this out.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 10, 2024

Shoppers buy more food As the rate of inflation continues to fall, experts predict that food retailers will see sales volumes return to growth after two years of subdued figures. However, if 2023 was the year of the machine then experts anticipate that 2024 will see the return of the human touch. to 1% for the year.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Foot traffic levels may take longer to recover, unless businesses return to the central cities and encourage staff back into offices. Grocery chain Foodstuffs have shifted from crisis to project management, with its New World Newmarket supermarket reopening three days after it was inundated with flood-water.

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Inside Retail

JULY 19, 2022

Overall, the return to retail has made it clear how important the customer experience is in drawing people back. In April, the supermarket giant submitted a development application for its first standalone, contactless drive-through grocery site in Rose Bay, Sydney. A return to entertainment and events. The convenience factor.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2020

Now, retailers are urgently focused on making their shopping experience digital, contactless and pandemic-proof. As the pandemic rapidly emerged and tightened its grip on Asia, stores, restaurants and shopping centers closed. Around March 15 stores, restaurants, retail and shopping centers in Asia were beginning to open at a 30%.

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A1 Retail

MAY 18, 2021

wilko, the home and garden retailer, has announced it will be partnering with Company Shop Group in order to help reduce the volume of products which find their way into landfill. Company Shop Group is a UK redistributor of surplus food and household products. Other environmental moves include signing up to the UK Plastic Pact in 2020.

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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. Mark Price With John Lewis in peril, could we see Lord Mark Price return to the Partnership? Sound familiar?

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A1 Retail

APRIL 21, 2022

Online grocery store British Corner Shop has announced the opening of a new warehouse in Wijchen, The Netherlands on Monday the 11 th of April. This warehouse is the first of its kind for the Bristol-based business, with a full dedication to exporting British Corner shop products.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The tale of Britain’s two private equity-owned supermarket buyouts took a new turn when Asda owners the Issa brothers unveiled a £2.3bn merger between the supermarket chain and the UK and Ireland operations of their other business, petrol station giant EG Group earlier this year. Debt piling: A burden or helping hand?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

One of the biggest trends hitting the retail industry today is the return to bricks-and-mortar shopping: with customers, left bereft of in-store shopping during the pandemic, returning to shops in droves. Howard noted that, if a brand is asking people to come to a physical space, it’s got to be prepared.

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Inside Retail

JULY 8, 2021

The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) is reminding the public to be respectful and that a $5,000 fine applies for spitting or coughing at retail workers in Greater Sydney. We call the manager and we step aside, normally management will then call the police. They come back maybe a week later. “We

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Scot Ian McLeod drove change at UK supermarket group Asda in the UK ahead of its sale to Walmart, was chief merchandise officer and board member of Walmart Germany from 2000-01, led the turnaround of Halfords, the UK auto parts chain, prior to its float, and then took the helm of Coles in Australia for five years from 2008.

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