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Coles and Woolworths criticised for promoting defunct recycling program

Questions have been raised regarding the promotion of a soft plastic recycling program by Coles and Woolworths, despite its collapse last year. Both retailers still inform customers through plastic packaging for various products that they can return soft plastics to stores for recycling. However, a recent photo uploaded by a shopper on social media shows […]

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Coles sets $27.4m record with Toowoomba supermarket sale

News / Dan Armes

Coles’ development arm has achieved a new record in Queensland with the sale of its Toowoomba supermarket and liquor outlet for $27.4m. This sale to a Victorian private investor sets a fresh benchmark in price for non-metro supermarket sales in the state, and provides further evidence that small malls and retail properties are retaining their

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Leah Weckert Becomes Coles’ First Female CEO in its 109-Year History

News / Dan Armes

Leah Weckert, a former McKinsey consultant and Foster’s beer executive, has been appointed as the new CEO of Coles, Australia’s second-largest supermarket chain. Weckert will be the first woman to lead Coles in its 109-year history, and her appointment raises the number of women leading top-20 ASX companies to five. She will take over from

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Supermarket giants Woolworths and Coles changing up plastic bag policies

News / Dan Armes

Key points: Woolworths will phase out plastic bags from its stores in Queensland and the ACT The supermarket chain says customers can still buy alternatives made from paper and fabric, or chill bags Coles is introducing compostable produce bags after an attempt to remove plastic bags proved “challenging” Woolworths has announced it is doing away

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Supermarket giants in immense failure

News / Dan Armes

Coles and Woolworths have a lot to answer for given their trumpeting of their leadership with the soft plastic recycling scheme, encouraging us all for years to return bags to their stores (“$3.5m bill to dump plastics in landfill”, February 4). It beggars belief that they had no knowledge of this disaster with REDcycle, that

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Coles to hold inaugural packaged groceries suppliers forum

News / Dan Armes

The nation’s leading packaged grocery suppliers, from tinned vegetables to laundry detergent makers, will get their first chance in 2023 to hear from Coles executives about the supermarket’s strategies for the year at a suppliers forum this month. Coles has decided to launch its first suppliers forum purely for packaged or dried grocery suppliers –

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Coles supermarket confirms major change to stores

News / Dan Armes

A supermarket spokesperson has shared the controversial news in a statement. Coles supermarket has confirmed a major change to selected stores across Australia in a new statement. The retail giant has announced that it has reduced the trading hours of its deli counters at some Coles stores. The popular service area will now close at

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Coles bids to contain spiralling milk prices

News / Dan Armes

Farmers are being offered record prices for their milk but Coles is taking a longer-term view to shore up supply and help steady the cost at the checkout. Coles has offered dairy farmers steep price increases under longer-term contracts in an effort to shore up the supply of its private label milk and keep sticker

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Coles debuts Next Gen store – with many wanting their own

News / Dan Armes

Coles debuts Next Gen store in Victoria – with dozens of customers asking when a version will be in their local neighbourhood. A next generation Coles has led to supermarket shoppers demanding similar stores come to their area. Coles Southland, based in Cheltenham, Victoria is a next generation store that opened in November 2022. However,

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Chips are down: Limits on frozen spud products ongoing

News, Uncategorised / Mel

Supermarket giant Coles’ two-item buying limit on frozen potato products is yet to have an end date as Australia’s spud shortage takes a toll on the nation’s pubs and food retailers. Coles had introduced a temporary limit on frozen chips before Christmas, with a spokesperson saying last week this would continue as poor weather across

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Coles will continue price freeze amid cost of living chaos

News / Dan Armes

Coles has extended a popular policy aimed at helping customers reduce pain at the checkout as inflation soars. Coles is extending its price freeze program, in a win for Aussie shoppers staring down the barrel of soaring inflation and interest rate hikes. The supermarket, along with its main rival Woolworths both implemented price freezes on

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Supermarket giant Coles forced to bargaining table under new IR laws

News / Dan Armes

Workers have used powers in the federal government’s new industrial relations laws to bring supermarket giant Coles to the bargaining table almost three years after their last pay deal lapsed. Retail unions wrote to Coles in December requesting wage negotiations following the passage last month of the Secure Jobs, Better Pay laws, which unilaterally empower workers

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Jeff Kennett slammed by government grocery reviewer

News / Dan Armes

Key points: Supermarkets employ “arbiters” as independent adjudicators between them and suppliers A government review has slammed Coles’ arbiter Jeff Kennett on a range of issues The reviewer says his behaviour shows why it needs tougher powers including fines The supermarket watchdog has slammed former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett for “flawed” decision-making and failing to

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Coles and Woolworths criticised for promoting defunct recycling program

Coles sets $27.4m record with Toowoomba supermarket sale

Leah Weckert Becomes Coles’ First Female CEO in its 109-Year History

Supermarket giants Woolworths and Coles changing up plastic bag policies

Supermarket giants in immense failure

Coles to hold inaugural packaged groceries suppliers forum

Coles supermarket confirms major change to stores

Coles bids to contain spiralling milk prices

Coles debuts Next Gen store – with many wanting their own

Chips are down: Limits on frozen spud products ongoing

Coles will continue price freeze amid cost of living chaos

Supermarket giant Coles forced to bargaining table under new IR laws

Jeff Kennett slammed by government grocery reviewer

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