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Woolworths is offering Everyday Rewards members extra points on a range of everyday essentials. Tailored offers  Each week, Everyday Rewards members will receive a selection of individual tailored offers. These booster offer will include a large number of points for spending a certain amount over a week or more, in-store and online. Everyday Reward members are encouraged to check their boos...

Woolworths will go from delivery tracking to live-tracking pickers in-store. Getting shoppers what they want After acquiring Milkrun, a quick commerce player, Woolworths is looking at a new capability to get an edge in the grocery delivery app market. The retailer has identified not giving shoppers what they want as a major pain point. Shoppers will soon be able to know when their products ...

We take a look at some of the latest sustainability news from Aldi around the world, including new packaging for products, recycling expansion and paperless leaflets.   Australian beef mince does away with the tray  In Australia, Aldi’s beef mince is now being sold in plastic bags following a successful trial in selected stores. Removing the plastic trays has led to a 70% reduction in plast...

For a second successive quarter, Costco’s performance was impacted by softer sales in big ticket non-food discretionary items. This was partly due to cautious shopping in the ongoing inflationary environment, but also due to tough comparatives where these products performed better than usual in the last two years. Here we look at those results in more detail and highlight five key takeouts. Co...

Alibaba’s Freshippo supermarket in China will stock Australian retailer Coles’ private label products. Freshippo working with 13 global retailers Freshippo is expanding its range of quality imports using its global sourcing capability. Imported products from the best sources around the world is a way to introduce innovative products that are trendy and popular. The retailer is also partneri...

Woolworths Australia has announced key changes to its paid loyalty programme and acquisition of Milkrun, a quick commerce player. Key changes to Every Rewards Extra programme Woolworths Everyday Rewards Extra is an extension of its Everyday Rewards loyalty programme. Members pay a subscription fee to enjoy “subscribers’ only” rewards. Under the new rules, subscribers will pay a higher subsc...

Woolworths is dropping the prices of more than 450 winter essentials including chicken, corned beef, soup and pasta, as part of its latest seasonal Prices Dropped campaign. Average discount of 19% The program will help shoppers save on the products they regularly buy in-store and online over winter. The price drops are worth over $700 across the full basket of products. The products include...

Our global analysts share some of the latest headlines across the globe. Here's what you need to know. Lidl Denmark has opened its first tobacco free store. The retailer has plans to be tobacco free in the country by 2028 Aldi Sud is testing a new ‘Einfach Gut’ (simply good) private label range, with prices even lower than traditional entry level products There is a price war in pasta...

Our global analysts share some of the latest headlines across the globe. Here's what you need to know. The European Commission is investigating retailers’ purchase alliances. Agecore, Coopernic and Epic are the specific targets for now, but stricter rules for all may be on their way. An independent Edeka retailer wants to open several autonomous stores in Northern Germany collaboration w...

Retail sales for the third quarter remained strong at AUD2.4bn (US$1.6bn), an increase of 1.2% on the previous year. Comparable sales also returned to growth through the period. Promotional activity elevated Shoppers are driving in-store sales growth of 2.8% in the quarter. New products continued to perform well, particularly benefiting the Ready-To-Drink (RTD) category. As the market norma...