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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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Metcash says it is focusing on closing the price gap between its stores and major competitors Coles and Woolworths as it warns of accelerating food and grocery inflation. The wholesaler, which also operates IGA and Foodland brands, said prices were up 4.9 per cent for the first quarter of a financial year ending April 30,
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The nation’s leading supermarket retailers, led by Coles, Woolworths and Aldi, will form part of a Soft Plastics Taskforce to explore solutions to address the immediate effects of the recent collapse of the REDcycle scheme for soft plastics. They received conditional interim authorisation from the competition regulator on Friday. Coles, Woolworths and ALDI lodged an
Coles Group boss Steven Cain believes the supermarket chain has hit the “sweet spot” with its widest range of items at low prices and groceries readied for click and collect pickup in under an hour as the battle for consumer convenience ramps up. The supermarket chain has shaved 30 minutes from its click and collect
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An Australian company has made its second round of lay-offs this year as the sector it operates in struggles to compete against Woolworths and Coles. An Australian online grocery delivery start-up, which raised $18 million in funding at the end of last year, has slashed more staff from its operations as the sector struggles to
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Major chains need to balance the needs of all stakeholders – consumers, suppliers and shareholders – to avoid greater scrutiny. Australia’s major supermarket chains are engaged in a delicate balancing act as food prices rise at the fastest pace in decades, adding to pressure on household budgets. Coles, Woolworths, Aldi and wholesaler Metcash face a backlash from
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