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The new Tiktok challenge waging war on the major supermarkets’ pricing

Inside Retail

Independent Queensland grocer Skippys Fresh Frootz has garnered attention on social media for its videos highlighting its low prices at a time when Australia’s major supermarkets are facing scrutiny for their lack of transparency in their price-setting practices. Bunnings is now back in first place.

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Is this the end of Australia’s supermarket duopoly?

Inside Retail

The allegations of price-gouging during a cost-of-living crisis by Australian supermarkets Coles and Woolworths could finally be the death knell of the duopoly that has long dominated the country’s grocery sector. In December last year, the Senate announced an inquiry into the price-setting practices and market power of major supermarkets.

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Supermarket advertising with POP marketing

Tokinomo

When you walk into the supermarket, what makes you choose a bottle of pasta sauce over another one? It's not just the price—it's the marketing. Marketing is how brands convince us that their pasta sauce tastes better, or that their cereal is healthier than all the others. Or a box of cereal over another brand?

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ACCC to conduct enquiry on Australian supermarkets’ pricing and competition

Inside Retail

The pricing practices of Australia’s supermarket near-duopoly are about to the the focus of a year-long enquiry by the government’s competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The ACCC will examine competition in the supermarket sector and how it has evolved since the previous inquiry in 2008.

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Scenes from a Supermarket

Retail TouchPoints

Our regular Editor’s Perspectives column offer insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. Stanwyck and MacMurray, concerned about being seen together as they plot their crimes, meet at a supermarket in a series of increasingly tense scenes.

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Ahold Adds DoorDash Deliveries to East Coast Supermarkets’ Service Offerings

Retail TouchPoints

Ahold Delhaize USA will make the DoorDash on-demand grocery delivery marketplace available across its five supermarket banners: Food Lion, Hannaford, Giant Food, The Giant Company and Stop & Shop. As leading omnichannel grocery retailers in their markets, Ahold Delhaize’s U.S.

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MCoBeauty CEO Shelley Sullivan on bringing ‘masstige’ makeup to the US market

Inside Retail

Australian luxe-for-less beauty brand MCoBeauty launched into the US market this week and is now stocked in over 1,800 Kroger Co stores. Inside Retail: How did MCoBeauty approach entering into the US market? The supermarket environment works so well for MCoBeauty, it has provided a loyal – and growing – customer base.

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