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    Supermarkets

    This Month

    Coles boss banks on efficiency gains from new warehouse

    Leah Weckert says better product availability will translate to higher sales following the opening of a major distribution centre in western Sydney. 

    • Carrie LaFrenz

    July

    Why Australia’s No.1 hospitals business poached a supermarkets boss

    Ramsay Health Care chairman David Thodey is trading in deep industry knowledge and expertise for a consultant’s mindset. Will it work?

    • Anthony Macdonald

    Why you can’t order online from Aldi anytime soon

    The German discount supermarket had been investigating internet sales, which is a space that its rivals Woolworths and Coles have aggressively expanded into.

    • Carrie LaFrenz

    Supplier survey suggests Coles has outperformed Woolworths all year

    Ahead of financial updates from the major supermarkets next month, suppliers say Coles and Aldi are picking up market share over their rivals, small and large.

    • Carrie LaFrenz

    Woolies, Harris Farm, Tesla chair, pile in to back biosecurity start-up

    ExoFlare has plans to build a global biosecurity tech firm, modelled on international cybersecurity players, and has big-name backers watching as it helps tackle bird flu.

    • Paul Smith
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    Anzac Day shopping ban restricts choice, retailers say

    Retail trade will be banned on Anzac Day in NSW, giving the state some of the nation’s most restrictive rules in a move to counter “creeping commercialism”.

    • Gus McCubbing, James Hall and Lucy Slade

    Payman wrong to cross the floor: AFR readers

    A majority of readers surveyed by The Australian Financial Review said they did not support the Senator’s decision to ignore long-standing Labor Party convention.

    • Tom McIlroy

    June

    Fruit and veg price transparency needed: Woolies

    The supermarket giant says progress on an industry or government-led review into the prices paid to suppliers is overdue.

    • Tom McIlroy

    Why this is a practical, workable supermarket code of conduct

    The new code offers the best of both a mandatory and voluntary system of compliance for the supermarket giants.

    • Craig Emerson

    Supermarket crackdown avoids break-up overreach

    Yet what remains unexplained is how shoring up the bargaining power of incumbent suppliers will actually lower prices for families at the checkout or will have the unintended regulatory consequences of meaning higher prices.

    • The AFR View

    Coles, Woolies face multibillion-dollar fines under new mandatory code

    Treasurer Jim Chalmers has agreed to adopt all 11 recommendations of Craig Emerson’s review into the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct.

    • Ronald Mizen

    Why avoiding Coles and Woolies will save you 25pc

    A basket of everyday groceries is $17 cheaper at Aldi, research by consumer group Choice shows, with little difference between the big two supermarket chains.

    • Tom McIlroy

    Consumers urged against panic-buying after Coles imposes egg limit

    One supermarket giant is limiting customers to two cartons of eggs after an outbreak of bird flu in Victoria worsened.

    • Gus McCubbing

    May

    How Kmart is now more product maker than retailer

    Kmart Group’s own brand has boomed, helping it deliver record profits. Its CEO says the low-cost goods chain is now more product maker than retailer.

    • Patrick Durkin

    Calls for power to break up Coles and Woolies split inquiry

    The ACCC should get new legal powers to prosecute supermarkets found to be engaging in price gouging, a parliamentary inquiry has recommended.

    • Tom McIlroy and Carrie LaFrenz
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    Is Bonza a goner? Woolworths’ $8b crisis; Bizarre quantum theory

    This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James and Anthony delve into Bonza’s crash landing, reveal the real cost of Woolworths’ PR crisis and answer a listener’s question about Australia’s whopper venture capital investment.

    April

    Woolworths launches $468m selldown in Endeavour; Jarden on ticket 

    It’s not the first time Woolworths has offloaded Endeavour Group stock since the grocer spun it off to the ASX boards.

    • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

    How supermarket shoppers became part of a $3.8b gold rush

    As supermarkets hunt for new sources of revenues in an age of rising costs and narrowing margins, they have stumbled on one of their most valuable assets: data.

    • James Warrington

    Coles has a bit of a booze problem

    While Coles’ supermarket sales are holding up well, a shock drop in its liquor division tells a story about the growing pain of interest rates.

    • James Thomson

    Coles wants suppliers’ help in cutting prices as shoppers seek deals

    The supermarket chain’s sales rose 5.1 per cent in the third quarter but liquor sales fell as consumers cut spending by looking for cheaper alcohol options.

    • Carrie LaFrenz