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Revealed: The science behind Aldi’s Special Buys strategy

Inside Retail

Even if you weren’t planning to look, you might now be intrigued. While Aldi isn’t the only retailer to use this form of limited-time offer, and certainly not the first, its Special Buys have become synonymous with the brand and a huge hit among consumers. The part about discounted prices is obvious. What is the theme today?

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Kiwis ‘not served well’ by grocery duopoly, but report reactions mixed

Inside Retail

In a preliminary report released last July, it flagged a raft of options for improving competition including making it easier for new competitors to enter the market, and adjusting planning laws to reduce restrictions on the use of sites using development covenants. Supie concluded: “The commission makes it clear the market is not working.

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Tesco confident it can ‘deliver Christmas’ despite industrial action

365 Retail

Unions have warned supermarket giant Tesco that it faces disruption at its stores as workers take industrial action at distribution centres just ahead of Christmas. But the retailer said it was confident it could keep the shelves fully stocked and “fulfil our plans” despite the action by the Unite and Usdaw unions.

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Tesco workers to launch pre-Christmas strikes

365 Retail

Warehouse workers and drivers employed by supermarket giant Tesco are to stage a series of strikes in the coming weeks in a dispute over pay. The union said the company had offered a 4% pay rise, describing it as “well below” the current retail price index (RPI) inflation rate of 6%.

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A cost-of-living crisis is brewing in Asia. Here’s what it means for retail

Inside Retail

At first, it seemed like Asia might get off lightly – most governments and professional economic forecasters in the region said so – but cost of living pressures are rising across the continent, with food, energy, rent and labour costs now all key drivers of retail price inflation. per cent, department stores were up 42.8 per cent.

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