Retail Wire

JUNE 23, 2024

In a significant policy shift, the federal government has confirmed that it will impose a mandatory code of conduct on large supermarket chains, ensuring fair treatment of suppliers and imposing hefty fines for breaches.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

The allegations of price-gouging during a cost-of-living crisis by Australian supermarkets Coles and Woolworths could finally be the death knell of the duopoly that has long dominated the country’s grocery sector. In December last year, the Senate announced an inquiry into the price-setting practices and market power of major supermarkets.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For those in Melbourne, stepping into the LaManna supermarket, in the northern suburb of Essendon Fields, is like taking the world’s shortest flight to Italy. To the LaManna customer, a trip to the supermarket is not an errand but an indulgence. LaManna’s defiance of the industry status quo means it is only just hitting its stride.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 14, 2024

Independent Queensland grocer Skippys Fresh Frootz has garnered attention on social media for its videos highlighting its low prices at a time when Australia’s major supermarkets are facing scrutiny for their lack of transparency in their price-setting practices. Bunnings is now back in first place.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

We’re putting the ‘super’ in supermarket (make that The Super-EST Market). “Buckle up, because Lidl U.S. is here to take your tastebuds on a joyride through the aisles, offering the highest quality products at the lowest prices,” reads a press release announcing the new campaign. “We’re

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2024

The CEOs of supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths stated their cases to the Senate inquiry this week as the government looks into the allegations of price gouging and anti-competitive practices. For Coles, the supermarket chain makes $2.60 And, it is consistent with profit margins made by supermarkets overseas,” she explained.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 1, 2023

“Supermarkets operate on very thin profit margins. Supermarkets refer to goods lost to theft, expiry or payment error as stock losses. The post Record retail theft puts pressure on Australian supermarkets appeared first on Inside Retail. Woolworths and Coles declined to comment. .

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2024

The pricing practices of Australia’s supermarket near-duopoly are about to the the focus of a year-long enquiry by the government’s competition regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). The ACCC will examine competition in the supermarket sector and how it has evolved since the previous inquiry in 2008.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

There’s a scene I particularly like where Winger, a harried mother of two, is in the checkout line at the supermarket and finds she doesn’t have enough money to pay for all her groceries, and it’s a perfect example of how not to provide good customer service.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sydney-based social enterprise Good & Fugly has released its inaugural The Farm To Supermarket Food Waste Report 2023 , which explores farmer and supermarket relationships. Almost a quarter of smaller farmers (23 per cent) report that supermarkets expect them to hand over imperfect produce for free.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2023

T&T Supermarkets , a Canadian grocery chain specializing in Asian products, will open its first U.S. Located in the Marketplace at Factoria, the 76,000-square-foot supermarket will be the largest Asian supermarket in the state and a flagship store for T&T, which is owned by Loblaw Companies Ltd. in summer 2024.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The ACCC has alleged that the two supermarkets offered certain products at a regular price for at least 180 days before increasing the price of the product by at least 15 per cent for a relatively short period of time – later placing those products on their ‘Prices Dropped’ or ‘Down Down’ programs.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 15, 2021

New on-demand food and grocery service Geezy Go has launched a digital supermarket serving Sydney, aiming to compete with Woolworths and Coles. . The online supermarket offers an under 20-minute delivery service, promising products priced similar to or lower than its rivals.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

Southeastern Grocers (SEG) has initiated a strategic divestiture of its business, with Aldi set to acquire all SEG grocery operations under the Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket banners and investment group Fresco Retail Group set to take over the Fresco y Más banner.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

Amidst multiple inquiries into the price-setting practices of Australian supermarkets, Woolworths and Coles are seemingly leading with more specials and promotions than ever. Choice is looking for the real deal Supermarkets are where Australians feel cost-of-living pressures the most, and food inflation is far from a myth.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

There’s a scene I particularly like where Winger, a harried mother of two, is in the checkout line at the supermarket and finds she doesn’t have enough money to pay for all her groceries, and it’s a perfect example of how not to provide good customer service.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 15, 2024

Over the decades, Australia’s major supermarkets have emerged from various parliamentary and regulatory agency inquiries, not to mention political, media, union and consumer group pressures, relatively unscathed. This time supermarkets are caught in a political quagmire and the repercussions of an economic and social reset.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 6, 2024

Brick-and-mortar supermarkets remain hugely important, but retailers need to consider and accommodate changing consumer expectations. It’s clear that supermarkets are in an increasingly hybrid business. Tomorrow’s supermarkets: mobile, seamless, connected Success for supermarkets lies in building a connected ecosystem of services.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

very intentionally draws its design and merchandising inspiration from supermarkets rather than pharmacies. Joyleaf, which opened in late 2023, is organized and merchandised by type of product rather than by brand: all the edibles, for example, are grouped together as a category, as they would be in a supermarket.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Coles Group , which operates a chain of more than 800 supermarkets across Australia, will deploy the Bringg delivery management platform in a bid to make its home delivery operations more efficient. The solution will make it easier for Coles to allocate deliveries to its network of carriers and track deliveries in real time. “We

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese recently addressed concerns regarding supermarket pricing, acknowledging a troubling trend without resorting to drastic measures against Coles and Woolworths.

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Inside Retail

MAY 30, 2024

Hardware retailer Bunnings has again been named as Australia’s most trusted brand, while supermarket chains Woolworths and Coles fell down the rankings. The post Supermarket chains fall in trusted brands rankings, as Bunnings holds lead appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Tokinomo

JUNE 15, 2022

When you walk into the supermarket, what makes you choose a bottle of pasta sauce over another one? Or a box of cereal over another brand? It's not just the price—it's the marketing. Marketing is how brands convince us that their pasta sauce tastes better, or that their cereal is healthier than all the others.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 26, 2021

Discount supermarket chain Aldi has topped the Canstar Blue Most Satisfied Customers Award, putting nine wins in its basket over the last 11 years. The survey also revealed that 91 per cent of customers go to the same supermarket for convenience and because it is “closer to home”, which was likely heightened by pandemic lockdowns.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Australian supermarkets will reap bigger profits in fiscal 2023 half-year due to decades-high inflation and increased savings, but analysts warned of a rough second-half as households reel from mounting expenses due to higher cost of living. million Jefferies $881 million $584 million Average $871.75 million $562.3

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2023

JD.com reportedly plans to combine its 7Fresh supermarket chain with other online services, creating an independent company selling fresh food and groceries to millions of people throughout China, according to Bloomberg and other media outlets.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 6, 2024

Despite aggressive discounting and competitive ‘members only’ offers for loyalty programme customers, traditional supermarkets continue to lose market share to discounter rivals, Aldi and Lidl, according to the latest research by Pricer, the in-store automation and communication solutions provider. However, last month Which?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ahold Delhaize USA will make the DoorDash on-demand grocery delivery marketplace available across its five supermarket banners: Food Lion, Hannaford, Giant Food, The Giant Company and Stop & Shop.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The chain’s value offer and rapidly expanding store network in recent years saw it overtake Morrisons to become the UK’s fourth largest supermarket in 2022. H owever, in April it was reported that it was among the supermarkets resorting to selling shops to bring down its significant debts. Which grocer offers better value?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 18, 2024

South Australian independent supermarket Saints Road Foodland has been named IGA International Retailer of the Year at the recent awards ceremony held in Las Vegas. Furthermore, the supermarket boasts an extensive cheese bar, an in-house cafe and bakery, an onsite butcher and charcuterie/smallgoods selection, and a seafood offering.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 18, 2022

The post Aldi opens first checkout-free supermarket appeared first on Retail Focus - Retail Design. Store manager Lewis Esparon said: “We have been working towards this day for several months now so it will be great to see how our customers react to the new technology.”.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Recently, the supermarket beauty aisle has undergone a makeover of sorts, with Australia’s leading supermarkets Coles and Woolworths now stocking digitally native self-care products. This sentiment about the demand for efficacious products at a budget-friendly price point is shared by the co-founder of tbh skincare, Rachael Wilde.

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Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Shopping at local convenience stores can cost up to a fifth more than buying the same items at the supermarket chains’ larger stores, according to a new study from Which? Members of the supermarket chain’s More loyalty scheme could be charged up to 22% more at the smaller outlets because the scheme is not currently available there.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 30, 2024

Going forward, on-demand delivery from the takeaway company will also be available from 380 Morrisons supermarkets across the UK, with shoppers able to purchase thousands of products.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Australian supermarket space is widely acknowledged as being particularly concentrated, with approximately 70 per cent of market share held by Coles and Woolworths. The post Why Melbourne-based YourGrocer is taking on Australia’s supermarket duopoly appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Construction on Queensland’s first ‘free supermarket’ has commenced at local charity Serving Our People’s Gold Coast headquarters. The post Gold Coast community pitches in on Queensland’s first ‘free supermarket’ appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The two largest supermarkets in the country – Coles and Woolworths – have been found to have a “huge gap” when it comes to labelling foods for sale online. The post ‘Huge gap’ in major supermarkets’ food labelling online appeared first on Inside Retail Australia. stars or higher, compared to just 0.4

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