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Vikki Gerrard La Crosse Explores How Retailers Promote Eco-Friendly Lifestyles

Retail Minded

Retailers play a pivotal role in this transformation by offering environmentally friendly products and promoting sustainable practices through their business operations and marketing strategies. It helps reduce the carbon footprint associated with production and promotes a more ethical and environmentally responsible supply chain.

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Coles sales surge despite pandemic, floods – but Covid costs $65 million

Inside Retail

The company said staff absenteeism related to isolation requirements during the Omicron outbreak led to “availability challenges and short-term impacts on Coles’ promotional program and disruptions to stores and distribution centres”. The supermarket division recorded $8 billion in sales, also up by 3.9

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How to Make Sense of the Complex Modern Grocery Retail Landscape 

Retail TouchPoints

While this may sound positive for supermarkets, it also brings new challenges. First, supermarkets must determine exactly how much inventory to order so as not to waste food or purchase insufficient supplies. Supermarket coffee bars, for example, are known to generate a more relaxed shopping environment.

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Tesco faces scrutiny over ‘Amazon-style’ fee for online suppliers

Retail Gazette

Tesco is under scrunity from the UK’s supermarket regulator, which is is closely monitoring its implementation of an “Amazon-style” fulfillment fee for online suppliers. Some also raised objections regarding unfair treatment.

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Sainsbury’s growth spurt continues as grocery inflation falls at slower rate

Retail Gazette

The supermarket’s revenues surged 8.1% The supermarket’s CEO Simon Roberts said: “More customers are choosing to shop at Sainsbury’s, recognising our determined focus on value, product innovation and service.” Sainsbury’s scooped up even more market share as sales soared, the latest Kantar figures show.

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Are barcodes the next big shift in retail tech?

Inside Retail

For example, 2D barcodes can be scanned in a retailer’s warehouse to show a particular product’s shipping date, use by date, any relevant batch numbers, and any further information that is specific to that product: i.e. any recalls or promotional activity that is tied to it.

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Why retailers are moving their ad spending into in-store digital assets

Inside Retail

When Entwined first took over the account, the company had five games in the market and was shipping printed material to 4000 sites three times a week. While brands have often funded promotional campaigns for specific brands, there’s never been a really clear commercialisation of it, he says.