Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Woolworths MarketPlus will enable third-party merchants to sell products across the supermarket chain’s businesses including MyDeal, Everyday Market, and the newly launched Big W Market. As part of the launch, customers can avail of free shipping of Big W Market products.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2022

Floods in South Australia caused “severe road and rail logistics disruptions into Western Australia, while flooding in NSW and Queensland saw the suspension of trading at 130 stores across its supermarket, liquor and convenience store networks. The supermarket division recorded $8 billion in sales, also up by 3.9 per cent.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic pushed microchip manufacturers to cease production and close their doors, creating a mammoth-sized backlog that continues to grow as a result of global shipping disruptions stemming from natural disasters across America and Asia. Import and Export — a Brexit Conundrum.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

In November 2023 , Amazon Fresh expanded its grocery delivery services to non-Prime members, with plans to offer two-hour delivery from both Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods supermarkets. Exclusive member perks are a common tactic to enhance the value of paid membership programs like Walmart+.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2022

The issue is perhaps most evident at the nation’s biggest supermarkets, where shelves of fresh produce are once again bare, not because of panic-buying customers, but because of the high numbers of people in the supply chain in isolation. Of those surveyed, 76 per cent said they currently have staff in isolation due to Covid-19 exposure.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2022

Israel-based supermarket/superstore chain Shufersal is gaining improved real-time visibility of products along its cold chain operations. Wiliot’s IoT Pixel device, the size of a small shipping label, can be attached to the side of each crate.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

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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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On-time shipping rates for the major carriers have declined significantly year-over-year, and longer-than-usual shipping times have been a source of pain for both retailers and their shoppers. Acknowledge Order Inquiry Urgency. Prior to the current environment, cancellations were much less common. Offer More Order Pickup Flexibility.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

What does the Australian supermarket chain Coles have in common with the CIA? In a three-year deal, Coles plans to deploy Palantir’s tools across more than 840 supermarkets to cut costs and “redefine how we think about our workforce”. Optimising the workforce We can briefly sketch out three implications of the deal.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Australia’s largest supermarket chain, Woolworths, is looking to increase its relevance to consumers through a new online marketplace it launched this week. He thinks Woolworths will start out by targeting its supermarket and Big W shoppers before widening the net. Potentially, they’ll introduce a liquor offer as well at some point.”.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2024

In a supermarket in southern China, live fish swim around in a glass tank bearing a QR code for customers to scan for information about where the fish is from and details of provenance and sustainability in its farming or capture. All of the self checkouts, all of the shelf edges, electronic shelf labels, everything is digital.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2023

Individuals and companies are finding that they can apply the lens of sustainability to virtually any part of their operations — from the raw materials used to make products to how those products are packed for shipping to handling the waste that comes from unsold food.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

Walk into any store – whether its a supermarket, a home goods chain, or a small local shop – and everything you see got there by road. That delay can snowball, pushing other shipments behind schedule, increasing labour costs, or even forcing the retailer to cover emergency shipping fees. The legal side is complex.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The supermarket will also introduce recycling points for customers for products not typically collected on bin days, including wrappers, empty crisp packets and face masks. Bosses said if the trials in six stores in Edinburgh are successful, they will roll the format out to all 498 supermarkets across the UK over the next year.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2022

eBay UK describes its new “ Imperfects ” program as “the fashion equivalent to supermarkets’ wonky veg initiatives.” All imperfections are detailed in the listing, with accompanying photos, so customers know what they are buying, and all Imperfects purchases come with free shipping and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 19, 2021

Amazon has already established a growing footprint of physical stores, acquiring the up-scale Whole Foods supermarket chain four years ago, along with opening physical bookstores and shops selling electronic goods. It is also testing automated, cashier-less convenience stores in several markets. “The

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Dezeen

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The shop is located within a complex made from shipping containers. The retailer's latest shop is located at Stackt Market, a shopping complex made of shipping containers in downtown Toronto. The retailer's latest shop is located at Stackt Market, a shopping complex made of shipping containers in downtown Toronto.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Woolworths is also looking to stock the kits in select stores from early November, and said its digital health and wellness business HealthyLife will be able to ship tests to customers as of November 1. State guidelines prevent the businesses from shipping the tests to South Australia or Western Australia.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 2, 2025

The empty pouches can then be returned in a prepaid envelope to Zero Co to be cleaned, refilled and shipped back. Then, when we looked at the carbon footprint of shipping the pouches back to us, the carbon footprint of cleaning them and the amount of water used to clean them, Smith said. By any metric, Zero Co is a success.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

Granted, executive respondents to this survey spanned retail, supermarket, consumer goods, airlines, entertainment and media and even financial services, so these results reflect a broader view of how business leaders are thinking about loyalty.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

There’s only so much that the international aisle in the supermarket can contain, spurring innovative retailers to tap into this demand. As a result, orders are picked, packed and shipped within Europe, meaning it can provide customers with faster delivery. “In Buying habits of the Brits. We describe ourselves as a cocktail.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

Until recently, all retailers had to work with were clunky, cumbersome, monolithic systems, where making one small change was akin to trying to steer a big heavy ship into a new direction. Even our favorite supermarkets have dedicated mobile apps with next day delivery as standard. The answer? Cloud-native microservices.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Asda has chartered its own cargo ship, and increased its stock of turkeys and other festive food compared with last year, in an effort to avoid disruption to customers’ Christmas celebrations. Asda has chartered a cargo ship (Rui Vieira/PA). Asda has chartered a cargo ship (Rui Vieira/PA).

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 4, 2021

According to Ikea, the new concept focuses on the digital experience, offering a number of solutions such as self-pick-up lockers that support flexible pick-up time and free shipping. Ikea Close to You is also the retailer’s first store located inside a supermarket.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 19, 2025

. “At M&S we have the highest standards in the industry for our food but the Brexit rules – constructed to deal with cross-sea container ships carrying long-life or frozen food – pay that no attention. Plus they were developed in a pre-digital era; relying on paper documents and physical checks and inspections.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2021

And this month we’re discussing the highs and lows of online shopping, covering everything from shipping delays and lost items to friction-filled returns. We also discuss the retailers that are tapping into the expat community while borders are closed and the thinking behind categorisation of international cuisines in the supermarkets.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A campaign to make beauty more accessible and inclusive for people of colour is gaining momentum in Australia and has pressured the country’s biggest supermarkets to take action. Currently, supermarkets don’t routinely stock any foundation shades darker than beige, Willink observed. Supermarkets respond. A long way to go.

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Retail Customer Experience

AUGUST 25, 2023

Hiring in retail is challenging on its own in a traditional space such as a store or supermarket. But there are many more hurdles when it involves one of the more unique retail employment locations — the cruise ship.

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Rangeme

MAY 17, 2022

Logistics costs add to the pressure, with the world’s shipping and freight companies also trying to re-orient themselves in the wake of the pandemic. And the economic landscape is not the only pressure on supermarket prices. For supermarkets’ suppliers, meanwhile, this bout of inflation poses some serious challenges. In the U.K.,

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Inside Retail

JULY 20, 2021

“People don’t know how their supermarkets are stocked up.”. He was speaking to Reuters from the Pacific Ocean as his ship now heads to Australia. Another 100,000 are stuck on shore, unable to board the ships they need to earn a living on. The Delta variant devastating parts of Asia – home to many of the world’s 1.7

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Retail Wire

JULY 21, 2023

Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the U.S., Cost Plus Drugs purchases drugs directly from manufacturers and ships them. Cost Plus Drugs purchases drugs directly from manufacturers and ships them. has partnered with Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs to offer generic prescription drugs at its pharmacies.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 25, 2021

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. Physical supermarket sales increased by 2.0 Online penetration for supermarkets is quite interesting – 8.5 per cent lift in net profit to $2.07 per cent to $39.2

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2023

Vegemite first hit Australian supermarket shelves in 1923, but it took a while to find its feet. As the Germans began sinking ships full of British supplies to Australia, Marmite disappeared from the shelves. The second world war also disrupted shipping supply routes. Vegemite competition advertisement, 1937.

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Inside Retail

MAY 4, 2021

Despite a burgeoning petcare aisle at its supermarkets, Woolworths Group is hoping to carve out a greater slice of the $2.9 Fuzzyard’s Australian HQ is based in Melbourne, Victoria but it also has a warehouse in California where it ships all North American orders.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This week, Australian supermarket giant Coles appealed to that love by announcing a pick-and-collect service that takes less than 60 minutes , shaving 30 minutes off its existing promise. In a not-so-distant past, the only way to get to your groceries was to go to the supermarket. Last-kilometre delivery is complicated.

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Retail Times

MARCH 29, 2021

One way is to implement ship from store , a service that could potentially speed up order fulfillment and keep shoppers coming back. Read on to learn more about ship from store and how to make it work in your business. What is ship from store? The disadvantages of ship from store. Consider the following. Higher costs.

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Inside Retail

JULY 23, 2023

Supermarkets in Australia now offer a ‘green option’ where they group deliveries in the same suburb together, so they’re not having to do several separate trips. Negotiate shipping costs Look at the way items are being shipped and evaluate other alternatives. The smaller the package, the fewer fees there are to pay in shipping.

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