Retail Gazette

AUGUST 22, 2023

Total sales across UK supermarkets plummeted 7.2% in the last four weeks ending 12th August 2023, marking the lowest level since January, market researcher NIQ reports. Retailers also increased their spend on promotional activity to 23%, up from 22.5% Sales reached their highest point in June, at 12.4%.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Total till sales at UK supermarkets have seen sustained growth of 9.1% This has been encouraged by an increase in the discounts offered by supermarket loyalty schemes. as the back to school period led shoppers to return to their usual shopping patterns. in the last four weeks ending 7th October 2023, only slightly down from +10.1%

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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 Gazette

APRIL 10, 2024

Tesco said price pressures on supermarkets continue to ease as it reported its profits had more than doubled over the past year. He said the supermarket had “worked hard” to reduce prices, including “doubling down” on its Aldi Price Match offer and Clubcard Prices promotion, which is available on around 8,000 products each week.

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I Vend

AUGUST 10, 2021

The COVID surge for supermarkets The pandemic hit many retailers hard, with stores shut and high streets deserted. According to industry experts The Grocer magazine, UK supermarkets continue to see high levels of growth. iVend Supermarket iVend helps supermarkets offer uninterrupted service to their customers.

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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. An estimated one in three continue to shop online for their groceries and goods.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2023

The supermarket ad circular is an age-old marketing tool, albeit one that frequently ends up in the recycling bin. Shoppers will be able to connect to their local store through the social ads to clip offers and add products that they’re interested in to their shopping list.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The pair have vowed to stop the practice after regulator the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found 65 agreements which restricted local competition. The CMA also revealed it would kick off a review of supermarket loyalty schemes in January 2024, which will centre around only offering promotions to loyalty members.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

CEQ’s network of 29 stores offers many of the core grocery items found in a traditional supermarket – ranging from fresh produce to non-disposable items – to large items such as washing machines, but presented in smaller store formats. Customers can’t go to the shop down the road. So it’s retail, but not as anyone else knows it.”

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

Schnuck Markets has extended its partnership with Instacart to introduce Caper Carts, which use AI and computer vision to automatically identify items shoppers put into them, allowing shoppers to then skip the line and check out using the cart technology. The supermarket retailer will roll out the smart carts at select St.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As household budgets remain squeezed by ongoing cost-of-living pressures, over half (54%) had started shopping with a retailer because of the significant discounts offered to card holders, while a quarter (23%) now say they won’t shop with retailers not offering ‘dual-pricing’ for loyalty members.

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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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V Count

MARCH 20, 2023

Your average shopper nowadays is more educated than ever —in the sense that they know what they need and want— meaning supermarkets and grocery shops must learn to adapt and leverage new technologies to help them understand what customers want and meet the modern shoppers’ demands.

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Mass Relators

JUNE 29, 2021

Raley’s today announced the promotion of two executives – Craig Benson and Levi Wingo – moves made to help the regional supermarket chain achieve its purpose of changing the way the world eats, one plate at a time. “We Prior to his promotion he served as vice president, technology. WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. Levi Wingo.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The news comes as total till sales growth at UK supermarkets have slowed 6.8% The consumer intelligence company found promotional activity rose 25%, up from 23% last year, as inflation slowed. Meanwhile, promotional spend was pushed to its highest level since February 2020. Online grocery shopping sales grew 8.2%

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365 Retail

MARCH 3, 2023

according to the latest industry figures – it is now predicted that households will face an extra £788 on their annual shopping bill. Worried customers have already made adjustments to shopping patterns as shop sales fell by record numbers both in December and across the whole of last year as consumers cut spending.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 3, 2024

The supermarket chain saw its sales jump 9.3% in the four weeks to 24 December, achieving its highest market share since December 2020 at 15.8%, according to analysts at Kantar. “Retailers were clearly working hard during the festive period to offer best value and win over shoppers, and promotions were central to their strategy.”

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

With many supermarkets launching discounted prices exclusively for loyalty scheme members, the popularity of these programmes has risen among price-conscious shoppers, according to the latest research from Retail Technology Show (RTS), the leading event that connects retail’s changemakers and leading tech innovators.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

It’s already happening, as AI-powered marketing systems digest vast amounts of data on each individual shopper, develop a unique strategy to grow value and engagement, and generate true 1:1 promotions and pricing to achieve each strategy — all in an automated process that takes minutes for millions of shoppers at scale.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 16, 2024

The grocery giant is introducing digital screens to its Market Street food counters, allowing brands to both promote products that complement the counter range and interact with shoppers in an area of the store where its products are not stocked.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2024

Moving beyond the conventional boundaries of hospitals and clinics, this approach offers unprecedented convenience and accessibility by bringing healthcare closer to where people shop, eat, and engage in their daily lives.

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V Count

MARCH 20, 2023

Your average shopper nowadays is more educated than ever —in the sense that they know what they need and want— meaning supermarkets and grocery shops must learn to adapt and leverage new technologies to help them understand what customers want and meet the modern shoppers’ demands.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 24, 2024

The supermarket chain has partnered with Retail Media Group to introduce trolley media across 300 of its largest supermarkets. ” Morrisons group media director Sophie Bayer added: “Retail Media Group is the obvious choice of partner to roll out our shopping trolley network. .”

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Tesco has launched a new media partnership with Vauxhall, which will see the car giant’s branding brought to the supermarket’s EV charge points. Vauxhall promotions will also be displayed on 619 charging units which have integrated media screens. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletter

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Mike Anthony

JANUARY 24, 2022

At a time when online grocery shopping puts huge pressure on bricks and mortar retail stores, this reality offers a huge lifeline to bricks and mortar grocery retail. Research shows that significant proportion of shoppers in every market in the world exclusively shop in offline stores. Pure online grocery shoppers are rare.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sainsbury’s scooped up even more market share as sales soared, the latest Kantar figures show. The supermarket’s revenues surged 8.1% of the total market, up 0.3% Meanwhile, grocery price inflation eased at a slower rate this month, as the proportion of promotional products bought fell compared to December.

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A1 Retail

JUNE 28, 2023

The warm weather also encouraged Brits to shop in-store, with NIQ revealing a rise in in-store sales (+13.4 percent in the four week period, while supermarkets grew 8.7 The extension of Nectar prices helped shoppers to continue to navigate the cost of living crisis with further discounts and promotional prices and saw Sainsbury’s (+11.7

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 28, 2023

Aldi Australia says it continues to explore opportunities to offer online shopping, however, it has downplayed media reports of an imminent move and says comments made by one of its executives were “slightly misconstrued”. Last August, Aldi trialled a limited online shopping offer, allowing customers to buy some Special Buy items.

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365 Retail

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.” Imagine the promotional potential: “ Welcome back, Mark. Many detractors deride the cost.

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A1 Retail

JULY 27, 2021

Online share of sales remain robust at 13.4%, suggesting a new normal for grocery shopping has been established. The start of a recent heatwave, an increase in travel, summer sport and the growth in UK staycations all contributed to an uptick in supermarket sales. However, online continues to maintain its market share of 13.4%

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

According to the Trigo CEO Michael Gabay, the Berlin location is nearly double the size of the Cologne store, where the concept debuted, and has additional offerings, such as promotional baskets, crates of beer and other bulk items, as well as pans and kitchen utensils.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The supermarket predicts it will make between £670m and £700m for the year, despite underlying pre-tax profits remaining flat at £340m for the half to 16 September. Grocery sales shot up more than 10% as volume growth across both quarters drove record market share gains for the business.

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Mass Relators

JULY 8, 2021

Raley’s has promoted two executives — Craig Benson and Levi Wingo — as part of what the company said are moves made to help the regional supermarket chain achieve its purpose of changing the way the world eats, one plate at a time. WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. Benson has been named senior vice president and head of technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2020

After years of shaking up every vertical from print media to automotive sales and financial services, digital transformation is finally becoming an imperative on supermarket and retail shelves. For instance, large digital “end cap” signs can be placed at the end of every aisle to draw attention to a particular promotion.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

per cent drop in comparable supermarket sales at Coles is a clear sign of normalising consumer behaviour in the wake of Covid-19 lockdowns. A strong Easter period drove sales across confectionery and entertainment products, and, with fewer, shorter lockdowns, consumers are once again comfortable shopping in larger and busier areas.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Banducci echoed Coles CEO Steven Cain’s remarks on the normalising of consumer shopping behaviour and given the first three “volatile” weeks of April, he also expects supermarkets will continue to cycle through the unprecedented spikes of last year. Online sales continue to soar. per cent in Q3 to $1.3 per cent, compared to 5.5

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