With many leading USA retailers trialling beacon technology, Woolworths is said to be trialling beacon technology with iPhones at its new store in the eastern Sydney suburb of Double Bay, according to The Australian newspaper. The technology will notify selected shoppers of special offers or product updates on their smartphones while they walk through shopping […]
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission called on egg industry participants last week to take heed of the recent Pirovic Enterprises Federal Court decision, in what appears to be a continuation of industry self-regulation. In September, the Federal Court handed down a $300,000 penalty against Pirovic after finding, by consent, that its ‘free range’ egg
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A complaint about the way Coles supermarkets advertised its apples has been upheld by the Advertising Standards Bureau, while Coles argued the description was accurate because “advanced cold storage” helped them retain qualities such as “taste, texture, smell, size and colour” for a lengthy period of time. In a TV ad, Coles described Tasmanian Pink
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New Zealand ‘no frills’ independent supermarket Pak’nSave has won the 2014 battle to be New Zealand’s cheapest, edging out Woolworths’ Countdown to be crowned the country’s cheapest supermarket in Consumer NZ’s annual survey of supermarket prices. Consumer NZ Chief executive Sue Chetwin said Pak’nSave had the lowest prices in all seven main centres surveyed. It
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A Dun & Bradstreet’s Business Expectations Survey revealed that 53.2% of businesses expect increased sales in Q1 2015 compared to last year, while just 7.5% forecast a decline, lifting D&B’s sales expectations index to 45.8 points, its highest level since Q2, 2000. However, Roy Morgan Research’s Business Confidence survey in October 2014 declined by 8
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While Perth, Western Australia retailers were granted permission to open from 7:00am under extended Christmas shopping hours, WA Independent Grocers and the Independent Retailers Organisation say the independents will lose sales to the national chain retailers and face extra costs. The new rule follows a submission to the state government by the WA Chamber of
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Wesfarmers announced its first quarter 2015 retail sales results last week with Food & Liquor headline sales up 5.8% during the quarter to $7.3 billion, helped by easing price deflation and ongoing investment in value, but partially offset by tobacco excise increases and fresh produce inflation. Coles continue its grocery sales growth trend by posting
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Event promotions such as Shop Small and Small Business Saturday are proving to be a major success in North America and the UK, and in Australia, small business owners and customers responded in record numbers to the American Express-backed Shop Small campaign in 2013. Shop Small will run through November and Federal Government Ministers declared
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Tatts Group is holding advanced discussions with a number of major players in petrol station convenience stores to sell scratch lottery tickets and daily keno in Victoria from February 2015, after the Victorian Government approved a variation to Tatts’ public lotteries licence in October. The move follows a decision by Greek group Intralot to end
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A bid by the National Retail Association is aimed at harmonizing retail trading hours across south east Queensland to create a single zone with the same opening hours Monday to Saturday that would also change a 20-year-old, 5pm Saturday closing rule in many areas of SEQ. The NRA, which represents over 19,000 different retailers and
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With a national Australian Made, Australian Grown campaign launched in October to back locally grown and made goods, a House of Representatives Agriculture and Industry committee report has urged the Federal Government to make major changes to stipulate the level of local and imported ingredients in food products. The Committee recommended that the Australian Government
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Following the launch of the Agricultural Competitiveness Green Paper by Minister for Agriculture Barnaby Joyce, big supermarket lobby Australian National Retailers Association voiced its concerns that duplication and overlap would undermine a review of competition law. However, the Australian Food and Grocery Council welcomed the release of the Green Paper as an important building block
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Competition regulator the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) was told by a judge it may have to step back and re-consider what its cases against Coles were and what allegations they were trying to prove, according to newspaper reports. In a directions hearing on the second case against Coles held the Federal Court in
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