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Convenience stores are often there when we need them for some top-up shopping, but now they offer so much more.
Discounters have long copied more established brands – but now it’s working the other way too.
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Branding experts have long used visual cues to communicate with consumers – but the rising cost of living is changing the nature of their messaging.
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Supermarkets have been hit by multiple disruptions in the past couple of decades and they are struggling to survive.
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Some say the gig economy is capitalism’s final victory, but maybe it’s not.
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Eating more frozen food could help us reduce waste, beat the obesity epidemic and have more money in our pockets – what’s not to like.
The now-tired David Jones’ food halls could do with a revamp.
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While grocers slug it out with discounters, the South African owners of David Jones may be planning to exploit a gap at the upper end of the market.
Lidl has “no current plans” to expand to Australia but that hasn’t stopped speculation.
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The possible entrance of another German discount retailer - Lidl - is bad news for the supermarket giants and good news for shoppers.
Leaving a sour taste. Tesco struggles to find a value proposition.
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Imagine taking over the reins of a firm which only a few years ago was regarded as one of the best run companies in the UK, but now routinely posted declining market share, moribund profits, and mounting…
Lidl: will Australian shoppers line up for another discount grocery chain?
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Australian shoppers have inadvertently invited global discount grocers to our shores by demonstrating their readiness to adopt private labels. In 2001, German discounter Aldi opened its first store in…