Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2025

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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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2025

The nations largest supermarket groups and the Australian Retailers Association leapt the the industrys defence in the wake of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC)s much-anticipated Supermarket Inquiry on Friday.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 5, 2025

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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Coles and Woolworths said they will defend the class action proceedings a law firm has filed in the Federal Court of Australia concerning the supermarket chains’ allegedly false discounts. “Woolworths Group intends to defend the class action proceeding,” said Woolworths. .

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Tesco and Waitrose are among the supermarkets facing backlash after a BBC investigation alleged their ‘Italian’ tomato purée may contain tomatoes grown and picked in China using forced labour.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 18, 2025

Aldi has become the first UK supermarket to provide free period products to its in-store toilets, following research from the retailer revealing the extent of period poverty across Britain. In February, the supermarket also revealed that it had raised 11m for Teenage Cancer Trust since partnering with the charity in 2017.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 20, 2025

Rappers Krept & Konan are opening a supermarket specifically tailored to serve the needs of black, Asian and ethnic communities in Croydon. The 15,000 sq ft supermarket will specialise in premium halal produce and world foods. “Offering a unique shopping experience tailored to meet the diverse needs of the local community.”

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Retail Gazette

MAY 20, 2025

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. Asda is looking to sell around 20 stores for 400m to help fund its turnaround plan.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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 obtained the competitor banners as part of its 2023 acquisition of Southeastern Grocers. Aldi Now Third-Largest Grocer in U.S.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For Jim Ritchie, founder and strategy partner at branding agency US+US, the price drop class action and ACCC legal action against the Australian supermarket points to something much larger. “As In the short term, rising prices across the board are most likely to drive a change in a customer’s supermarket choice. “In

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

With this additional increase, Aldi has outpaced its competitors, securing its position as the leading supermarket in terms of hourly wages. This announcement follows Aldi being named the UKs cheapest supermarket every month of 2024 by consumer champion Which? within the M25) from March 1st. nationally and 14.16 nationally and 14.16

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The trolley, dubbed Caper Cart, is a collaboration between Coles and US supermarket technology company Instacart, and it is scheduled to be trialled at Coles Richmond Traders in Melbourne early next year. Coles has launched an all-in-one AI-powered Smart Trolley trial designed to enhance in-store shopping experiences through technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The supermarket will begin in the bakery department, implementing RFID-embedded labels on each item. Kroger will leverage RFID technology from Avery Dennison for item-level digital identification, enabling more frequent and accurate inventory information to help maximize freshness, reduce waste and improve the store associate experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The in-store grocery shopping experience has held on to its appeal, even as supermarket retailers have realized that they also need to offer customers simple, yet personalized, digital commerce options. But supermarkets can no longer rely on simply providing a top-notch store experience for success.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“Until the industrial action is resolved, a further impact to sales is expected,” the supermarket chain said in a statement. In a statement, the UWU said that Woolworths must prioritise its workers’ well-being or else continue to suffer from empty supermarket shelves in the lead-up to Christmas.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

However, Leighton certainly has his work cut out for him this time around, as the struggling supermarket continues to flounder. He told The Guardian that he had committed to spending three to five years with the supermarket chain, acknowledging that “it is going to take us that long to get it right.” as sales fell 5.5%

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The strike is yet another symptom of big supermarkets myopically pursuing profit,” Jim Ritchie, strategy director and partner at brand agency US+US, told Inside Retail. While the UWU’s strike is advocating for workers’ rights, it could give consumers another reason to question if a supermarket duopoly is benefitting them.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2024

The supermarket chain said that the agreements will provide team members competitive pay rates which are also sustainable for the business. Woolworths said that the United Workers Union (UWU) has endorsed the new individual enterprise agreements comprised of wage increases of a cumulative 11 per cent over three years.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 18, 2025

Waitrose has confirmed that its first new full-line supermarket in seven years will open in Bristol in 2027. The 30,000sq ft store will create 150 new jobs and be built in north of the city in Brabazon, which the retailer described as “one of the most sustainable examples of urban regeneration in the UK”.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2024

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. Set to open next year, this futuristic ‘fulfilment centre meets supermarket’ will test Amazon’s ability to transfer its online presence into an offline world.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Amazon continues to expand its grocery delivery services through a new partnership with California chain FoodMaxx , expansions of its partnerships with Save Mart and Lucky Supermarkets , and a new deal with startup Jüsto in Mexico to make grocery delivery available in that country.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

According to the Australian Financial Review , the supermarket chain has been working with consultants at Bain over past months. The decision to reduce in-store range comes as Coalition and Labor blamed major supermarkets such as Coles and Woolworths for higher prices , the AFR stated.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 19, 2024

He originally joined the supermarket retailer in 2004 as a grocery buyer and category manager: Its a brand I know well and look forward to caring for in my new role. Lee Nicholson I am looking forward to returning to Stop & Shop, which is where I started with this organization, said Nicholson in a statement.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Besides a Woolworths supermarket and BWS liquor store, which account for 51 per cent of turnover and have signed a lease renewal through to 2032 the centre is home to The Reject Shop, Australia Post, a medical centre, pharmacy, and other retailers, with non-discretionary retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Three more supermarket chains will connect their electronic shelf label (ESL) hardware to the Carrot Tags pick-to-light functionality from Instacart , making it easier for Instacart pickers — and eventually for consumers themselves — to find the products on their shopping list.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

With COVID-19 cases dropping in 2022, shoppers returned to physical stores, including supermarkets, while maintaining some of their e-shopping habits acquired in the pandemic. And in 2024, with shoppers visiting different supermarket stores and chains, and with greater frequency, we’re witnessing a new trend: the polychannel shopper.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Unions Gain Toehold in Retail A Whole Foods statement released to Supermarket News gave qualified support to the unionization effort: “Whole Foods Market recognizes the rights of our team members to make an informed decision on whether union representation is right for them.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

California supermarket chain Stater Bros. is rolling out an AI-powered ordering solution from Afresh in the produce department at all 169 of its stores following a successful pilot. By replacing its previous manual ordering process, Stater Bros.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The supermarket chain noted that many of its staff at the Melbourne distribution centre are not members of UWU and that they had indicated they would want to resume working to receive pay. The United Workers Union’s strike began on November 21.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Supermarket chain Hy-Vee has optimized its distribution and transportation network with the help of three solutions from Manhattan Associates : the solution providers’ Warehouse Management System (WMS), Transportation Management System (TMS) and Demand Forecasting and Inventory Optimization (DFIO) module.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2025

Wegmans already works with DoorDash and recently expanded that partnership to additional supermarkets in the chain. Regional grocery chain Wegmans has partnered with Uber Eats to offer on-demand delivery from stores in Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Grubhub has been adding more non-grocery retailers to its portfolio in recent months, including Pet Supplies Plus , Office Depot , PetSmart and Starbucks , and added its first national supermarket chain, Albertsons , in June 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Stop & Shop will deploy Savings Station kiosks in half its stores this month and complete a chainwide rollout to all 350+ supermarkets by the end of January 2025.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2025

The big two supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, shared their third-quarter results, exceeding expectations, but confirming that the grocery price war is far from over. Woolworths supermarket sales grew by 3.4 per cent while Coles supermarket sales grew by 3.7 per cent over the same quarter.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2025

Yarn’n, a First Nations-owned e-commerce brand and maker of environmentally conscious toilet rolls, has clinched an exclusive partnership with supermarket giant Woolworths as it continues to scale its ethical, sustainable and socially conscious business model.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

In addition to the new stores, the supermarket has also committed to extending or refurbishing six of its existing stores over the next two years, with an extension planned for Galashiels, refurbishments planned for Linlithgow, Glenrothes and Stirling and further upgrades in Hamilton and Carluke.

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