Half year results season in Australia is out of the way, with both Woolworths and Coles having released their HY performance reports over the last two weeks. As the attention swings towards H2 and the rest of 2021, we believe that there are five major trends that will shape the Australian grocery market as we cycle out of the pandemic... 1. Acceleration of online grocery Over the past few y...

Coles has launched a new online subscription service called Coles Plus that offers benefits across the Group's businesses for $19.99 a month. New sub links benefits across the Group's businesses The new service was revealed at the retailer's H1 results this week and replaces its Delivery Plus service that it launched in November 2019 . Unlike the old service, the new sub offers one price p...

Coles has posted sales growth of 8.1% to AU$20,378m for the first half of its FY21, with EBIT also increasing 12.1% to AU$1,020m. Supermarkets sales up 7.3% to AU$17,800m Supermarket LFL growth was reported at 7.2% for the half and despite ongoing challenges to deal with the pandemic, customer satisfaction scores reached record highs. Growth did slow in Q2, but remained strong (Q2 LFL growt...