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LaManna’s CEO on curating a personalised supermarket experience for the holidays

Inside Retail

LaManna, the 10,000sqm independent supermarket located at Essendon Fields, is rising to the Christmas occasion. Inside Retail : How has LaManna differentiated its holiday season offering from other supermarkets? IR : How does the supermarket have to prepare/work differently during the month of December as opposed to other months?

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How Amazon plans to disrupt the grocery sector by merging choice and convenience

Inside Retail

However, at last week’s Delivering the Future event in Nashville, Tennessee, the retail giant announced major plans to combine choice and convenience for its customers. As it stands, Amazon has a reported 6 per cent market share in the US grocery sector – its combined supermarket footprint includes Whole Foods Market, Amazon Fresh and AWS.

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Aldi’s Biggest U.S. Expansion Yet: Opening 225+ Stores in 2025

Retail TouchPoints

Aldi plans to open more than 225 new stores this year as part of the next phase of its five -year national growth strategy. The new stores will open through a combination of organic growth and the conversion of select Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket stores to the Aldi format. Aldi Now Third-Largest Grocer in U.S.

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ACCC urges 20 reforms to fix supermarket competition but says ‘no silver bullet’

Inside Retail

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has published its final report following a year-long inquiry into the countrys supermarket sector. The report includes 20 recommendations to increase competition and price transparency for consumers and suppliers.

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Asda eyes £400m sale of 20 supermarkets

Retail Gazette

Asda is looking to sell around 20 stores for 400m to help fund its turnaround plan. The supermarket chain is planning to offload the shops located across the UK and lease them back for the next 20 years. Sale-and-leaseback deals are popular among supermarkets as a means of raising capital to boost their balance sheet.

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Residential development forecasts take the risk out of store location planning

Inside Retail

Traditionally, major retailers worldwide have had to rely on local government data and interpreting planning policies to determine where to land bank for future developments and where to consider rebuilding, upgrading or expanding existing stores. Their insights help communities and decision-makers plan for the future.

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Woolworths and Coles drew consumer ire for cost-of-living pressures in 2024

Inside Retail

Woolworths and Coles, Australias supermarket goliaths, have gone from Covid-19 heroes to cost-of-living villains in the last two years. The timing of the inquiries for the supermarket sector was also not ideal with changes of leadership at Woolworths, Coles, Metcash, Costco and Aldi. billion, but booked provisions worth $1.6

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