Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2024

But one area of commerce has stubbornly resisted this move toward digitization — wholesale. People basically just ignored the third leg of that triangle though, the wholesale leg.” For nearly two decades now online marketplaces have proliferated, beginning with Ebay and Amazon, followed by Walmart, Etsy and countless others.

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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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VMS

JUNE 23, 2025

C&S Wholesale Grocers LLC (Keene, N.H.) In its coverage of the news, Grocery Dive noted that the deal comes more than six months after C&S’s plan to acquire nearly 600 grocery stores through a divestiture deal with Kroger and Albertsons fell apart when those supermarket operators abandoned their effort to merge at the end of 2024.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 16, 2025

CP Axtra, the awkwardly-named parent company of Thailands familiar Makro and Lotuss stores and the countrys largest wholesale-retail conglomerate, reported a strong set of results for the fourth quarter of 2024 and for the whole year. Wholesale sales under Makros four different banners grew by 4.7 billion Thai baht (US$4.0

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2025

The company operates a portfolio of 85 department stores, 87 home improvement superstores, 695 supermarkets, 41 hypermarkets, 13 wholesale warehouses and a slew of specialty retail brands across multiple categories, totalling 3844 sales locations in all. hypermarkets and three more Mini Go! billion Thai baht (US$1.9

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Associated Food Stores (AFS), a wholesaler and cooperative serving nearly 450 supermarkets in the Intermountain West region, has adopted customer engagement, personalization and analytics solutions from Birdzi. We’re honored to earn the confidence from our first wholesale customer.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The law, designed to prevent foodborne illnesses by strengthening the ability to track and trace food through all stages of the supply chain, will become mandatory in 2026, but Save A Lot, a discount wholesaler serving approximately 750 independently owned groceries, has committed to being ahead of the curve.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2024

Cooperative food wholesaler Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) , which serves independently owned supermarkets, has expanded its partnership with Instacart to offer ecommerce and same-day delivery solutions as well as smart cart technology to its member retailers. An Instacart shopper will then pick and deliver the order.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2024

Earlier this month , Kroger and Albertsons identified the 579 supermarkets they plan to sell to C&S Wholesale Grocers if the merger goes through. A Kroger spokesperson quoted by Reuters said that “today’s decision is welcome news as it eliminates the need for a preliminary injunction hearing in Colorado.”

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Schwarz Group The parent company of German supermarket chains Lidl and Kaufland is owned by Dieter Schwarz, son of its founder Josef Schwarz. Elo France’s Elo is the owner of supermarket chain Auchan, which was founded in 1961 by Gérard Mulliez and has its headquarters in Croix, France. The Walton family currently holds 45.5

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The Tally robots from Simbe will roam the aisles of five Price Chopper/Market 32 and five Tops Friendly Markets stores through January 2025, when Northeast Grocery will evaluate the pilot results to determine next steps that could include expanding the robots’ deployment to other supermarkets.

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Inside Retail

MAY 8, 2024

This week, the Senate Committee on Supermarket Prices made 14 recommendations for the Government to consider amending the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to end the alleged price gouging of the major supermarkets. This will allow consumers to align and ‘buycott’ from a supermarket that promotes their values.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

billion merger of supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons has faced pushback from federal regulators, state Attorneys General and labor unions practically from the moment it was first announced in October 2022. The planned $24.6 Top execs from both companies defended the merger in testimony to a U.S.

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Talking Retail

MAY 13, 2021

Subscribbe, a wholesale ecommerce platform that will enable independent convenience stores to compete with the big supermarkets by creating a ‘corner shop conglomerate’, is to be launched. This story continues at Wholesale ecommerce platform aims to help c-stores compete with supermarkets.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Hake joined Woolworths Group in May 2018 and was most recently its commercial director of merchandising and customer value in Woolworths Supermarkets. Guy Brent will lead the company’s Woolworths Food Company, an own-brand exclusive food business, together with Greenstock, PFD Food Services and the Australian Grocery Wholesalers.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 23, 2022

Launched in 2017, wholesale platform Foodbomb connects restaurants and cafes with a marketplace of around 160 suppliers, simplifying the ordering process. But, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the business opened its doors to direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales to buoy the market through periods of empty supermarket shelves.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

A $68 T-shirt might seem like a tough sell, but eight years on, Molnar’s brand Goodlife C l othing has a host of top-tier wholesale partners, a booming DTC business and, most importantly, a cult following of customers that keep coming back. Product that Delivers on its Promise. We’ve built this business in a more traditional, grassroots way.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Alex Foster, who has 20 years of retail experience at discount supermarket Aldi, will take over the position. Barbeques Galore launched a B2B e-commerce site in May with the goal of expanding its wholesale operations in Australia and internationally.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Thai retail conglomerate Central Retail (CRC for short) has launched full-on into the wholesale business under the name Go Wholesale, and is planning to give CP Axtra — parent company of retailer Lotus’s and wholesaler Makro — a run for its money. It operates 164 wholesale units, of which all but 10 are in Thailand itself.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The winter World Cup has added a new level of uncertainty to the Christmas trading outlook of Britain’s supermarkets: How do you persuade cash-strapped shoppers to buy yule logs and luxury biscuits at the same time as beer and pizza? But with household budgets squeezed, supermarket chains are bracing for less of a sales bonanza. .

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Wholesaler Metcash’s revenue grew in the first half of FY24 amid higher sales across its food, liquor, and hardware businesses. Metcash is known for its supermarket brands IGA and Foodland and convenience brand Campbells/C-Store. Meanwhile, tobacco sales fell 12.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2022

Foodservice distributor US Foods is continuing to expand its warehouse supermarket concept CHEF’STORE with four new locations in California, Montana and North Carolina. The new additions will bring the total number of CHEF’STOREs to 87 across 13 states. In February 2021, the company rebranded to the CHEF’STORE banner.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2023

Mexican grocer Chedraui , Raley’s Supermarkets and Primark Stores have topped the National Retail Federation’s 2023 Hot 25 Retailers list, which ranks the fastest-growing retail companies in the U.S. Raley’s Supermarkets, No. expansion ), BJ’s Wholesale and Costco. BJ’s Wholesale Club (up 22.9%) 8. 13), Publix (No.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

Wholesaler Metcash has entered a trading halt after confirming to the Australian Financial Review it is in talks with Quadrant to acquire the Superior Food Group.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2023

Back then the chain was a department store until 1965 when the first Woolworths supermarket opened in New Zealand, before the company later bought the Self Help chain and from 1973 began rebranding those under the Woolworths brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

billion Kroger acquisition of Albertsons , calling the deal — the largest supermarket merger in U.S. This supermarket mega merger comes as American consumers have seen the cost of groceries rise steadily over the past few years,” said Henry Liu, Director of the Bureau of Competition at the FTC in a statement.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 8, 2021

An exclusively online supermarket is rolling out across metro Sydney and Melbourne this month to capitalise on the demand for quick and convenient grocery delivery. We don’t have this problem because we purchase wholesale and sell at retail prices.”. 15-minute delivery .

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

billion merger, Kroger and Albertsons have increased the number of supermarkets they plan to divest by 166 , for a total of 579 stores. The retailers also have increased the corporate and office infrastructure they would sell to C&S Wholesale Grocers , as well as additional private label product lines, for a total of approximately $2.9

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The symbiotic retail relationship SM Retail, the retail arm of SM Investments, operates a portfolio of more than 4200 stores across a whole plethora of retail categories that includes department stores, supermarkets, hypermarkets and specialty stores. In all the company runs 30 brands, and conveniently they rent space in SM Prime’s malls.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 9, 2022

Australia has experienced plenty of supermarket shortages since the COVID pandemic began. All of Australia’s supermarket supply crises were dealt with in less than three weeks. Supermarket restrictions. Supermarkets have already made changes to avoid repeats of the supply crises of 2020 and 2021 by keeping more stock on hand.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2023

billion, with its wholesale distribution business PFD registering sales growth of 28 per cent due to strong trading with existing customers and new customer acquisition. The retailer has begun rebranding Countdown Supermarkets to Woolworths New Zealand and has started transitioning its Onecard loyalty program to Everyday Rewards.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2020

Like many retailers dealing with slow (or nonexistent) store traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic, tea retailer DAVIDsTEA is shifting its focus to e-Commerce and wholesale operations. As part of bankruptcy filings in Canada and the U.S.,

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Retail Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Kirkland, the signature brand by wholesaler Costco, is experiencing new price cuts and reductions due to the grocery price wars that have ensued.

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Retail Wire

JULY 16, 2021

C&S Wholesale Grocers has entered into an agreement to acquire Piggly Wiggly Midwest. “Piggly Wiggly is more than a supermarket, it is a family of franchise operators, employees and loyal … customers, too. president of Piggly Wiggly Midwest and founder of Butera Market.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Our wholesale funds management program allows us to take advantage of these kinds of deep value opportunities and we look forward to working with Fortius on unlocking further value.” . Rundle Place has an Apple store, the Adelaide City Library, Coles supermarket and more than 50 specialty shops.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 17, 2023

Supermarket bosses will be facing energy secretary Grant Shapps after he warned he would hold retailers accountable if they continue to charge “sky high” petrol prices for customers. A number of supermarkets, such as Sainsbury’s , have already said they would welcome the scheme.

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