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

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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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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Retail Gazette

JULY 24, 2023

UK supermarkets have more than doubled their margins on fuel since the start of the war in Ukraine , according to recent data from the RAC. RAC fuel spokesman Simon Williams said the decline could have been even sharper if supermarket pump price reductions were “in line with cheaper wholesale costs”. for petrol and 5.7p

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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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Talking Retail

JULY 20, 2021

Sainsbury’s has unilaterally decided to close down its wholesale business and therefore stop supplying the SimplyFresh group with Sainsbury-labelled products. SimplyFresh announced this morning that as a result of Sainsbury’s decision it no longer has an ongoing agreement with the supermarket as a supplier.

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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

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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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

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

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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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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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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Talking Retail

JULY 15, 2021

An e-commerce platform that plans to help convenience stores by-pass wholesalers and buy direct from manufacturers is to launch by the end of this year. Subscribbe, which is intended to help convenience stores compete on price with the big supermarkets, is aiming to create a “corner shop conglomerate”.

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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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365 Retail

MAY 11, 2021

Morrisons continued to see strong sales in the past three months as the supermarket benefited from remaining open during the most recent Covid-related lockdowns. of the like-for-like growth came from the wholesale business, with the rest from its stores. Sales in the 14 weeks to May 9 grew 2.7% Morrisons store (Mark Mann-Bryans/PA).

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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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Retail Gazette

JUNE 27, 2023

The grocers were questioned by MPs at the Business and Trade Committee on why prices continued to rise despite wholesale costs starting to fall. Executives from Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco told MPs on Tuesday that they were shielding customers from the full impact of rising costs.

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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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Soon after Britain’s Tesco abandoned its retail business in Thailand and Malaysia in early 2021, its buyer, Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group, merged it with its Siam Makro wholesale arm. The retail and wholesale businesses accounted for a roughly even split of the company’s 219.6 That was in October a year ago now. billion baht ($9.4

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 30, 2024

The supermarket will use the proceeds of the sale to “fund further investment in the grocery and food making businesses, as well as significantly strengthening the business’s capital structure” The grocer is expected to use some of the funds to pay down part of its £5.17bn debt pile.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Discount supermarket chain Save A Lot is rolling out a new data-driven supply chain solution from SymphonyAI in an effort to better meet shopper needs and minimize stockouts and substitutions. Save A Lot operates approximately 850 stores in 32 states across the U.S.

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Retail Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Food processors and supermarkets are turning to short-term staff to help address labor shortages tied to the Omicron variant. Associated Wholesale Grocers hired hundreds of temp workers to help staff its 11 distribution centers after a record number of employees called out sick.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2024

The supermarket saw like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, soar 4.6% ” He added: “For longer term and sustainable growth, we have developed new plans for growth in wholesale, convenience, franchise, export markets and global sourcing and we are now moving quickly to implement them.” rise the year before.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 23, 2024

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. The charges also apply to online orders fulfilled on behalf of retail and catering customers made through the grocer’s wholesale arm, Booker.

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Retail Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

C&S Wholesale Grocers is revising the Grand Union supermarket banner with plans to open 11 supermarkets in New York and Vermont. Ten of the Grand Union locations are having grand openings this week. The Grand Union stores are back and better than ever.

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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In part, that frustration may reflect the seemingly harsher spotlight on Woolworths and Banducci in the political and media commentary around supermarket pricing and competitive behaviour than on Coles and its CEO and managing director, Leah Weckert.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Steven Cain, CEO at Coles, said the deal will allow the company to focus on its growing omnichannel supermarket and liquor business. “This agreement is positive not only for Coles and Viva Energy, but also for our customers, team members and respective shareholders. Viva will continue to stock Coles’ own-brand products. .

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Morrisons has unveiled a host of management changes as CEO Rami Baitiéh begins shaping up his senior team for the supermarket’s next chapter. Former Coles liquor chief executive Darren Blackhurst will take the reins from Rachel Eyre as interim chief customer and marketing officer while she is away on maternity leave.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2023

It operates 163 units with an average size of just over 5,200 square metres, but 80 of them are much bigger than that: cavernous warehouses where retail buyers and end consumers load up oversized shopping carts with bulk items at wholesale prices. That’s good news for retailers.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Within one week, we developed a wholesale range, which we photographed and took out to specialty delis and independent supermarkets. IR : Is the wholesale side of the business still going? It was hard to cut off wholesale because it was making money, but it just wasn’t the direction I wanted the business to go.

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Retail Wire

APRIL 27, 2022

SpartanNash operates as a grocery wholesale and owns 145 supermarkets under the banners of Family Fare, Martin’s Super Markets and D&W Fresh Market. United Natural Foods is said to be exploring a potential acquisition of SpartanNash as is Oak Street Real Estate Capital. It also supplies and operates commissaries for the U.S.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The concessions include a significant portion of the frozen food supermarket’s selection in The Range. Iceland and The Range have said the partnership creates a “true one-stop shop” for customers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 8, 2022

Several submissions advocated splitting the wholesale and retail arms of the two players, Woolworths NZ and Foodstffs, thus reducing their ability to influence prices through convenience stores and independent retailers. Independent online grocery retail startup Supie was less than impressed by the report on the New Zealand grocery duopoly.

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