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New NZ Grocery Commissioner highlights urgent issues in supermarket sector
Woolworths Group and rival Foodstuffs are on notice from new regulator.
Amazon delivery drones: how the sky could be the limit for market dominance
Amazon’s latest plan to use drones to deliver packages in the UK by the end of 2024 is essentially a relaunch. It was te...
Coles posts higher sales as more customers prefer to eat at home
Supermarket sales jumped 4.7 per cent to $9.19 billion, while liquor sales inched 1.8 per cent higher to $851 million.
Woolworths sees quarterly sales increase led by food segment
Food businesses continued to moderate over the quarter driven mainly by deflation in fruit and vegetables and meat.
Foodstuffs names winners of emerging supplier competition
The retailer has announced the winners of the competition's start-up and small supplier categories.
Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci talks tech, emerging consumer trends
The supermarket boss reveals the latest technology that has caught his eye and what shoppers are looking for now.
Coles, Woolworths promise ongoing negotiations after some workers strike
Both supermarkets stressed very few workers were involved and that the strike did not impact operations.
How farmers are bearing the brunt of supermarkets’ carbon cuts
Several leading fast-food chains are starting to take note. McDonald’s, for example, has announced plans to achieve net ...
Building your own B2B e-commerce platform is fraught with risk. Here’s why
Beyond the risk of incompatibility, adopting an off-the-shelf solution is more easily budgeted and planned for.
Woolworths’ bakery range gets a sweet update
Donald Keith, merchandise manager for bakery, Woolworths, said the team had taste-tested every product and worked hard f...
Retail veteran Ian McLeod’s top lessons in leadership and transformation
Former CEO of DFI Retail Group Ian McLeod talks to Inside Retail about lessons he has learned in a career spent transfor...
‘Huge gap’ in major supermarkets’ food labelling online
According to the researchers, these missing food label components, typically mandatory for physical products, pose poten...
Woolworths’ $372 million NZ rebrand dubbed ‘tone deaf’ as shoppers struggle
About 47 per cent of Kiwis aged 35-64 and 49 per cent of those over 65 years feel that the plan is a waste of money.
Coles SA stores now offer compostable bags in produce aisles
The new compostable bag is made from renewable resources including corn starch.
Ordermentum acquires Foodbomb, secures $16 million in funding round
The merged companies now have a total value of over $100 million.
Sipped or shaken? Worksmith introduces new Grada coffee cocktail
The co-creators shared that it took them 18 months to perfect a hot extraction technique that can lift more complex flav...
Coles, Western Meat Packers boost meat production in $35m facility upgrade
The investment will expand production lines from six to nine, increasing weekly capacity to 400,000kg.
Choice finds shopping multiple chains can cut 40 per cent off shopping bill
"It's really simple that, financially, this makes the most sense," – Professor Nitika Garg of the University of NSW.
The hunt for supermarket value
After years of Covid-related disruption, we are now seeing a relatively stable trading environment dominated by concerns...
Suntory sees Australia as model for canned cocktail expansion
As Japan's second-biggest domestic maker of soft drinks, Suntory Beverage has traditionally focused on non-alcohol offer...