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Grocery Trend Report: Upgrading Digital Shopping to Support ‘Power Users’ and Appealing to Ethno-National Identities

Retail TouchPoints

The in-store grocery shopping experience has held on to its appeal, even as supermarket retailers have realized that they also need to offer customers simple, yet personalized, digital commerce options. But supermarkets can no longer rely on simply providing a top-notch store experience for success.

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Sensing, Not Seeing, with Vision AI as Retail’s Crystal Ball for the Future

Retail TouchPoints

While 7-Eleven is at the forefront of inventive uses for vision AI in the convenience retail market, we are also observing interest and adoption of vision AI for supermarket retailers for resource reallocation, to mirror each store’s unique ebb and flow of operations and foot traffic throughout the day.

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Woolworths taps into ‘endless aisle’ with Everyday Market

Inside Retail

Australia’s largest supermarket chain, Woolworths, is looking to increase its relevance to consumers through a new online marketplace it launched this week. Everyday Market sits within the Woolworths website and complements its food and grocery range with a selection of products across household, baby, toys, pet care, health, and beauty.

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ALDI Slashes Prices on 400 Essentials for Summer Savings Spree

Retail Wire

The supermarket’s no-frills, efficiency-driven business model passes savings directly to shoppers. About 90% of ALDI’s products are private-label brands, allowing them to avoid big‑name marketing costs and pass the savings to customers, per Food & Wine. Stores are intentionally minimal to cut costs.

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How Amazon is fending off competition by offering everyday essentials

Inside Retail

Amazon’s push to offer more everyday essentials like toothpaste is hurting its average selling prices, but it is also a guard against rivals such as Temu and Shein who offer rock-bottom prices on goods they ship from China. But offering a variety of everyday products like dish detergent and floss is helping Amazon.

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Retail Supply Chains and Commodity Risk: How Trading Brokers Are Becoming Strategic Partners

Retail Focus

Supermarket shelves look calm, yet the prices behind every carton of milk or bag of rice can shift overnight. Weather, geopolitics, energy costs, even a ship stuck in a canal can nudge a commodity upward and squeeze retail margins. Custom Hedges – Contracts align with shipment schedules rather than quarterly financial cycles.

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Woolworths opens all of its online stores to third-party sellers

Inside Retail

Woolworths MarketPlus will enable third-party merchants to sell products across the supermarket chain’s businesses including MyDeal, Everyday Market, and the newly launched Big W Market. We’re excited to launch BIG W Market, leveraging our core proprietary platform and third-party sellers.