Australian supermarkets businesses have relied on management talent from the UK but perhaps it’s time to look elsewhere.
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From women in the kitchen to Santa’s huge ego, Christmas ads are still ridden with conservative gender messaging.
Can Iceland (the country) force Iceland (the supermarket) to give up its trademark?
Tesco tries to fend off Unilever’s price hikes – and Marmite lovers aren’t happy.
Some of the bigger grocery retailers are moving away from convenience stores because of increased costs, difficulties reading the market and cannibalisation.
Shoppers have had it with supermarket science and instead are embracing more holistic styles of eating.
Paying a higher price for milk at the supermarket won’t help farmers much as the Australian dairy industry is more exposed to international markets.
Woolworths’ move to rebrand its private labels may lead to no points of difference for customers between supermarket products except price, where Aldi is strongest.
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 big supermarkets, Woolworths and Coles, will need to think of new strategies to compete with new chains such as Aldi which continue to steal market share.
Humans are programmed to chose colourful, symmetrical food. But ugly alternatives are cheap and cut waste.
It’s a collosal business. But who gets the most out of ‘rewards’? And what if we all used ours at once?
Since the heyday of retail bans on products containing genetically modified ingredients 15 years ago, the tide has been heading in the other direction.
Convenience stores could be the next big focus for Australia’s grocery retailing giants.
It was a humid, sticky 32°C when I made a quick trip to the grocery store in shorts and a tank top earlier this week. Despite the heat, however, the store clearly wanted me to think it was the fall season…
Large supermarkets are undoubtedly very convenient, with a huge variety of products on offer. But evidence suggests their size prompts us to shop less often and buy more on each trip.
Farmers’ protests against the big supermarkets demonstrates the importance of good supply chain management.
Across the world prices have dropped 64% as too much milk is being produced.
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.
Discount stores thrive on their ability to attract the shoppers who want to shop there – not just the ones who need to.
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing, University of Tasmania
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Associate Dean - School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Professor, Monash University
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Professor in Sustainable Production and Consumption, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Associate professor, and Associate Director of the Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University
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PhD, Political Economy, Macquarie University
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PhD Candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Accounting, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Competition Lawyer; Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
