Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2024

The supermarket saw like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, soar 4.6% Subscribe to Retail Gazette for free Sign up here to g et the latest news straight into your inbox each morning Morrisons CEO Rami Baitiéh said: “In January I outlined our plan to reinvigorate, refresh and strengthen Morrisons as we started our next chapter.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

The first, a Melbourne radio interview defending Woolworths’ decision not to promote Australia Day merchandise, and the second, an ABC Four Corners exchange on competition in the grocery market. Banducci has expressed regrets about the interviews but is adamant that the retirement announcement was not prompted by them.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Morrisons has unveiled a host of management changes as CEO Rami Baitiéh begins shaping up his senior team for the supermarket’s next chapter. Former Coles liquor chief executive Darren Blackhurst will take the reins from Rachel Eyre as interim chief customer and marketing officer while she is away on maternity leave.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Steven Cain, CEO at Coles, said the deal will allow the company to focus on its growing omnichannel supermarket and liquor business. “This agreement is positive not only for Coles and Viva Energy, but also for our customers, team members and respective shareholders. Viva will continue to stock Coles’ own-brand products. .

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Retail Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The grocery wholesaler SpartanNash plans to organize its corporate-owned supermarkets under banners that appeal to specific consumer demographics. “We This allows us to have much more purpose as we talk to shoppers and consumers. ”

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

Consumers are not being served well by the New Zealand grocery duopoly, according to the Commerce Commission – but it stopped short of any major recommendations in the final report into the grocery market tabled this week. .

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Mass Relators

JULY 8, 2021

LOUIS – Discount grocery chain Save A Lot today unveiled plans to update and rebrand one-third of its stores this year as it continues its transition to a wholesale model. The new store design will be introduced to all 1,000 of its stores in 32 states by 2024, the company said in announcing the plan. Louis and Denver markets. “As

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I felt like I had landed on a good idea and found a niche in the market for something that didn’t exist. SF: I would absolutely love to expand interstate, but it’s a really big move that requires a lot of planning. IR : Is the wholesale side of the business still going? IR : We touched on interstate expansion just before.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 17, 2024

and the related divestiture plan the retailers offered to allay antitrust concerns, according to court filings. The planned merger has galvanized opposition from the supermarket retailers’ biggest unions and others, including state officials who filed lawsuits claiming that the deal runs afoul of antitrust and consumer protection laws.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Costco Wholesale Corporation, the world’s third-largest retailer after Walmart and Amazon, has a wacky fiscal year that is out of sync with most retailers: Its FY23 ended 3 September and its annual report was released on 11 October. In Asia, member-based companies have in the past focused heavily or exclusively on wholesale customers.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Nielsen Consumer Insights reported a 37 per cent increase in supermarket coffee sales – with more premium options seeing sales growth of over 40 per cent. During the height of the pandemic, coffee consumption changed radically. Customers stopped buying from baristas and started brewing their own. Grounds for expansion.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Hello Drinks founder JP Tucker said it is a first in the Australian liquor industry and is a win for both customers and wholesalers. But with third-party logistics (3PL) impacting its bottom line, Tucker looked at how he could work with wholesalers to eliminate these costs. We had around 200 truck deliveries from wholesalers last year.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Founder and creative director of Who is Elijah, Raquel Bouris speaks to how the vegan, fragrance brand plans to further disrupt the niche luxury fragrance market after a successful Black Friday campaign and launch of its new scent Ocean Eyes. It was a big moment for our brand recognition. Our biggest order to date was a $1.7

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 6, 2024

Administrators at FRP said the reduced store footprint would coincide with “a renewed focus on the brand’s products, online sales channels and wholesale strategies, bringing the brand in line with industry peers and supporting a return to financial stability”.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

New Zealand’s Foodstuffs has received its strongest indication yet that the nation’s competition regulator may block the planned merger of its North and South Island businesses. The value of those suppliers’ outside options would consequently be reduced.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

American wholesale retailer Costco has opened its first petrol station in New Zealand, as it counts down to the opening of its first full warehouse store. As in other markets, Costco is using petrol as a loss leader, selling fuel at around 20 cents a litre cheaper than nearby rival service stations.

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Mass Relators

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This supermarket mega merger comes as American consumers have seen the cost of groceries rise steadily over the past few years,” Henry Liu, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition, said in a statement. The post FTC sues to block Kroger-Albertsons merger appeared first on MMR: Mass Market Retailers.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2021

Moreover, the business model is based on wholesaling, supplying and supporting franchisees and independent retailers, some of whom may well shift to other wholesalers and pharmacy retail brands if the Wesfarmers takeover succeeds. cash bid through a scheme of arrangement, valuing the Sydney-based wholesaler at $687 million.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A decade ago, convenience stores were a rare sight in Vietnam, where the vast majority of the population was used to shopping in traditional markets or mom-and-pop stores for everyday grocery needs. In recent years, the nation’s convenience store market has seen rapid escalation – and sophistication – in the larger cities.

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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 billion petcare market with the launch of a new standalone business, Pet Culture. Fuzzyard is also planning to launch online exclusives and seasonal products that can’t be found at local pet stores.

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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. To put it simply, there is no escaping the subject of sustainability in retail.

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Mass Relators

MARCH 25, 2024

Supermarket operators have sold nonfood products for decades, but they still aren’t getting their fair share of the business. From our perspective, it’s really a question of aligning strategically on a plan for retail with our suppliers,” Graham said. “We What is the strategic plan that we need to lay out going forward?

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Inside Retail

JUNE 9, 2021

The ACCC will not oppose Woolworths Group’s plan to acquire food distributor PFD Food Services following a detailed investigation. And] while there were concerns expressed by some suppliers, many suppliers did not raise competition concerns.”. And according to MGA CEO Jos de Briun, their fight isn’t over.

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Retail Focus

MAY 24, 2021

The events of the past year have sparked a permanent redrawing of the retail landscape, with online grocery sales soaring 91% year-on-year in a four-week period alone in 2020 and over 17 million Brits planning to stick to online shopping even as lockdown eases. In some cases, this will involve fast-tracking existing digital plans.

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Mass Relators

JULY 26, 2021

LOUIS — Discount grocery chain Save A Lot has unveiled plans to update and rebrand one-third of its stores this year as it continues its transition to a wholesale model. The new store design will be introduced to all 1,000 of its stores in 32 states by 2024, the company said in announcing the plan. Louis; and Denver markets. “As

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The business, along with its other units – LloydsPharmacy Clinical Homecare, LloydsDirect, Lloyds Online Doctor and a wholesale arm AHH – were sold by Celesio to American healthcare company McKesson in 2014. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletter

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Rangeme

APRIL 18, 2022

Lots of people making simple changes is much better than just a few people making wholesale changes,” he says. And retailer Co-Op announced last year that it would be carbon-neutral by 2040, which includes being the first British supermarket to offer carbon-neutral private label products. British retailers set goals.

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Mass Relators

APRIL 26, 2022

NEW YORK – Regional supermarket operators Meijer and Bashas’ separately announced they are now accepting online payments by shoppers enrolled in SNAP, the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program. Bashas’ said it plans to introduce the capability to its Diné stores across Arizona and New Mexico.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2023

The 7-Eleven Holdings board’s decision to seek a buyer for its network of about 750 retail outlets continues a seismic restructuring of the convenience retail market in Australia. 7-Eleven has indicated a $2 billion price tag for its 9 per cent market share in fuel sales and market-leading national convenience store network.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 15, 2021

The wholesalers serving independent grocers account for more than 44,000 additional jobs (and nearly $3.3 The continued strength and growth of the independent supermarket industry shows consumers are supporting local, community grocers who continue to innovate and bring value to the communities they serve.”.

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2022

I understood the Australian market, but also sort of understood the Lindt brand and the Lindt business model from growing up in Switzerland. Compared with a lot of our other markets, Australian shoppers and consumers really like, and are very open to, new concepts. Australia is a really attractive test market for big brands.

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Mass Relators

JANUARY 21, 2023

As senior vice president and chief financial officer, he oversaw the development of the 2020 and Beyond Plan , which analyzed every facet of business at Associated Food Stores to identify opportunities for improvement. Supermarket,” was an avid industry collaborator. Albers, also known as “Mr.

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Inside Retail

JULY 29, 2021

The commission said New Zealanders are paying too much for groceries compared to people in other international markets, the major two retail chains – the Woolworths-owned Countdown and the local co-operative Foodstuffs group – are stifling innovation and making persistently high profits in the absence of serious competition.

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Inside Retail

JULY 29, 2021

They really own brands and take brands to market. They have a retail-wholesale philosophy — they have their own stores, they’re in large department stores [through concessions] and they hold licences for a bunch of very well loved and established brands. IR: What other plans do you have for Brand Collective?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to founder and CEO Shayne Mele, the collaboration between David Jones and Frenchie – which wholesales and operates an online store – represented a “watershed moment” for mainstream, traditional retail. The brand realised 362 per cent year on year growth in 2022, and its offline wholesale retail accounted for 15 per cent of sales.

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