Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Aldi Corner Store in North Sydney has debuted a first of a kind pizza-making robot vending machine, dubbed Pizzabot. The collaboration with Bondi startup Placer Robotics, will serve restaurant-grade pizzas in two minutes for a limited time. The vending machine is designed and manufactured in Australia. Huw Longman, director of Aldi Corner Store commented: “We understand our shoppers are motivated by quality, value and supporting local.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Netherlands-based studio Superposition has designed an interactive data visualisation for Amnesty International, which lays bare the level of facial recognition technology (FRT) present in New York City. Amnesty International believes FRT “violates the right to privacy” and is actively campaigning against the technology with its Ban The Scan campaign.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With Omicron waning out, Melbourne CBD is launching an additional 20 new stores in the coming months in order to revive its retail wing. This comes after last year’s expansion which added 20 new stores to the precinct. Melbourne Central is home to 12 international renowned flagships: with the highly anticipated Lego store, the largest in the southern hemisphere, set to open in the coming months. .

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Frank Mayer

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The kiosk and display company adds the Gateway bill payment kiosk to its lineup of standard self-service kiosk solutions. GRAFTON, WI – Kiosk and display manufacturer Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc. recently announced the addition of the Gateway kiosk to its line of standard self-service kiosks. The new unit provides a bill payment option for companies looking to offer automated cash payment and recycling.

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Adopting MACH technology means more than implementing new platforms. This type of digital change affects your organization at every level and requires a thoughtful approach to navigate challenges that crop up. The Get MACH Ready report, co-authored by MACH Alliance member Scott Canney in collaboration with Orium, commercetools, and Contentstack, will provide you with strategies to prepare your organization for a digital transformation.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Bluethumb, Australia’s largest online art retailer, is launching a new standalone website for digital art, where customers will be able to purchase still images, videos, and animations from some of the country’s leading digital artists as NFTs (non-fungible tokens). The website, Bluethumb Digital, is designed to attract crypto converts and more traditional art collectors alike, with payments accepted via Ether (the native cryptocurrency on the Ethereum blockchain) and credit card.

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Design Wanted

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

These smart thermostats automate heating and cool your home in style. Thermostats as a product might sound dull but they’ve come a long way over the years, offering a wide range of capabilities in addition to simply controlling the heat and AC in your home. Back in 2011, the original Nest Learning Thermostat took the world by storm with its puck-shaped hardware and smart connectivity that could learn your daily routine and create heating and cooling schedules accordingly.

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Greater Group

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In recent years, retail designers have been met with a new challenge: to create shopping experiences that cater to digital-first generations while continuously engaging shoppers who primarily shop in-store. The intersection between digital and physical retail channels has catalysed a multitude of new trends in the retail world, with new technologies being applied almost every step of the way to increase production efficiency and attract shoppers through immersive and exciting experiences.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Australian food-delivery service Menulog has added more than 2200 convenience and grocery partners as demand surges. The company says it has experienced 232-per-cent growth since January last year with demand booming in suburban and regional markets as well as metro cities. Independent businesses represent 37 per cent of Menulog’s grocery and convenience partners.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Island Light is an upcoming small business based in Leeds that produces homemade Rum creams, also known as ‘Kremas. Kremas is a cream base cocktail that originates from Haiti. Developed by 24 year old Stanika Lightbourne, who was born and raised on Turks & Caicos Island and influenced by her Haitian mother, Island Light rums creams are an authentic, refreshing, tropical taste of the Caribbean.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Michael Hill International has reported a 15 per cent earnings increase in its first-half results, despite losing around 20 per cent of its trading days to Covid restrictions on both sides of the Tasman and in Canada. Revenue for the first half is estimated at $327.1 million with EBIT at $51.6 million and a lift of 240bps in gross margin. Strategic investment has helped the brand boost the membership of its loyalty program to more than 1 million members, which helped boost digital-first sales by

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

On February 14, 2022, Noom Inc., a popular weight loss and fitness app, agreed to pay $56 million, and provide an additional $6 million in subscription credits to settle a putative class action in New York federal court. The class is seeking conditional certification and has urged the court to preliminarily approve the settlement. The suit was filed in May 2020 when a group of Noom users alleged that Noom “actively misrepresents and/or fails to accurately disclose the true characteristics of it

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Woolworths Group has reported group sales growth of 8 per cent in the half-year to January 2, reaching $31.8 billion. . However, earnings before tax and interest fell 11 per cent to $1.38 billion. Group net profit after tax on continuing operations declined by 6.5 per cent to $795 million. E-commerce sales were estimated at $3.48 billion. Across its Australian food division, total sales growth was solid at 3.4 per cent moderating over the half as restrictions eased, however EBIT fell 7.6 per cen

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Today Marxent, the leader in 3D e-commerce and 3D omnichannel experiences for enterprise furniture and home improvement retailers, announced a rebrand to 3D Cloud by Marxent, along with a series of new 3D applications and application bundles.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Surging parcels and service revenue drove a healthy increase in profit for Australia Post in the December half. With an estimated 15 million Australians under lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic at times during the period, there was significant migration to shopping online. Australia Post boosted revenue by 10.4 per cent to $4.8 billion, on the back of a 13.6-per-cent increase in parcel and services revenue, which reached $3.87 billion. .

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Iceland is to expand its Uber Eats partnership to a further 200 stores, after initially rolling it out across more than 100 stores in London last year. From April the partnership will mean that shoppers can add more than 3,000 Iceland products on Uber Eats from 200 further stores across the country to be delivered in 30 minutes or under. Iceland trading director Andrew Staniland said: “Iceland is committed to delivering a wide range of everyday essentials as well as big brand products at great v

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Scentre Group, which operates Westfield-branded shopping centres in Australia and New Zealand, says it finished last year with a leasing rate of 98.7 per cent across its portfolio. CEO Peter Allen says the company signed off 2497 lease deals, including 1090 with new merchants and added 267 new brands to its portfolio last year. The group has an interest in 41 shopping centres across the two countries.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The GMB has urged Asda bosses to revise their pay deal to avoid the threat of industrial action amongst distribution centre members. It comes after nearly 70 per cent of the 8,000 GMB members polled turned down the below inflation pay offer. Meanwhile, almost 80 per cent of the warehouse and clerical workers and LGV drivers said they were ready to take industrial action over pay.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Australian food-delivery service Menulog has added more than 2200 convenience and grocery partners as demand surges. The company says it has experienced 23-per-cent growth since January last year with demand booming in suburban and regional markets as well as metro cities. Independent businesses represent 37 per cent of Menulog’s grocery and convenience partners.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Battersea Power Station is delighted to unveil the first tranche of cafés, bars and restaurants set to open their doors inside the Grade II Listed Power Station from September 2022. Visitors to this exciting culinary hotspot for London will be able to enjoy a variety of British and international eateries with Le Bab, Where The Pancakes Are, Poke House, Clean Kitchen Club, Paris Baguette, Joe & The Juice and Starbucks® joining the Power Station line-up.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The past century has seen major innovation and disruptions that have turned the world upside-down, with new ideas and industries flourishing in the post-war era and the decades that followed. More recently, the e-commerce dot.com boom (and bust) left space for new thinking and fresh approaches to the way people purchase, interact, and communicate. The almost mythological story of start-ups forming in a garage and battling it out in brainstorms and code is something that many entrepreneurs of tod

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E Delevry

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Supply chain disruption dominated 2021, according to research from Blue Yonder which suggests that 97% of organisations faced disruption over the last 12 months. The disruption has forced a re-evaluation for many, with the supply chain becoming a priority for nearly two-thirds of businesses (63%). Meanwhile, 83% have increased investment into improving technology, new skills and defining a new supply chain strategy.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Yesterday, Coles announced that it had seen relatively flat sales growth of 1 per cent, and a profit dip of 2 per cent, over the first half of FY22. The figures are cycling periods of massive growth for the supermarket sector, landed well within analysts’ predictions, and showed that Coles is holding on well through the pandemic, despite supply-chain issues.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

DPD UK And what3words have partnered with customers able to add their what3words address from this Friday. They will be able to add the address in the delivery preferences of the DPD app so that delivery drivers can pinpoint the exact delivery point – whether that’s a doorstep or safe place. More than 10 million parcel recipients already use the DPD app.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Family-owned Harris Farm Markets has always been about providing premium quality food to Australians who want the best-of-both-worlds experience of a fruit and vegetable market offering in-season produce and their local providore’s fine array of meat, cheese, and accompaniments. It’s also deeply committed to sustainability across the business.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

International ice cream company Froneri announces a new flavour profile for indulgent stick brand, Nuii.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Best & Less Group has reported ‘robust’ trading performance during the past half-year despite losing 21.3 per cent of trading days due to government-mandated store closures. The group has reported first-half revenue of $287.5 million and net profit after tax of $16.9 million. . Although sales reduced during the first half, like-for-like revenue was stable, up by just 0.1 per cent.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

X5 Group and Sber are currently discussing expansion of their cooperation on joint projects in e-commerce, data architecture management, the development of cloud technologies and artificial intelligence, as well as the creation of virtual assistants.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In last month’s article, we talked about the mega factors which are driving the urgency of transformation for retail customers: Those four factors were: Rapidly increasing customer expectations for low friction/high utility interactions. Burndown Curve – retail businesses forced to invest in revenue models that they know are in atrophy because they need to maintain cash flow.

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Retail Times

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SkinnyBrands Premium Lager, Skinny Lager, will make a move to the ‘Power Aisle’ in Tesco from 18 February to 15 March - for a month-long duration.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

EveryHuman’s online platform has become the go-to destination for people with disabilities looking for products that fit well and look good. The brand has also grown a strong online community with its motto: “Fearless. Optimistic. Candid. Humans.”. “It’s a space that allows people who are alike to connect and for kids to see older versions of themselves,” EveryHuman CEO Matt Skerritt said.

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