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Cedar Woods sells Williams Landing Shopping Centre for $60 million

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Victoria’s Williams Landing Shopping Centre has been sold for $60 million after owner Cedar Woods accepted an unconditional offer which also includes one hectare of adjacent development land. The shopping centre has a Woolworths supermarket, 30 specialty stores, a childcare facility, and two levels of office space.

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Coles pockets $1 billion profit as Smarter Selling pays off

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Coles’ Smarter Selling strategy is paying off for the Australian supermarket giant, with approximately $300 million in extra savings in the bank at the end of FY21. At its full year results announcement on Wednesday morning, Coles revealed that net profit broke the one-billion-dollar mark, rising 2.8 per cent to $1.005 billion.

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Eighteen months post-merger, Lotus’s growth is stagnating. Here’s why

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It operates 163 units with an average size of just over 5,200 square metres, but 80 of them are much bigger than that: cavernous warehouses where retail buyers and end consumers load up oversized shopping carts with bulk items at wholesale prices. Net profit was up by 8.9 Same-store sales growth was almost flat-lining at 0.5

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Woolworths’ ballooning underpayments muddy a strong half

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This is a view shared by Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association (SDA) national secretary Gerard Dwyer, who said he was dismayed that another underpayment has been found. Supermarkets were strong, Big W struggled. million, though due to a higher cost of doing business net profit fell 6.5

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Woolworths declares $2bn share buyback as profit hits $2.07bn

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Woolworths has announced a $2 billion share buyback following the demerger of its drinks business Endeavour Group and a strong year at the supermarket checkouts. per cent lift in net profit to $2.07 Physical supermarket sales increased by 2.0 Online penetration for supermarkets is quite interesting – 8.5

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Woolworths flags concerns across supply chain, customer experience

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Despite group net profit hitting $1.5 Inflation is beginning to impact all aspects of our customers’ shop, and we have been seeing a gradual change in [their] shopping behaviours,” Banducci said, adding that the business is juggling putting through legitimate price increases for suppliers while keeping prices down for customers.

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How dated stores could hurt Thai retail giant Big C’s sales rebound

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This was accompanied by a gross profit margin increase from 15.1 per cent and a net profit margin after tax of 3.4 Third quarter gross profit was particularly strong, coming in at 16.9 The shopping centres need a facelift too. It leases the shop space to junior anchors and small tenants that pay Big C rent.