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Coles general manager of Grocery, Anna Croft told industry leaders at the Food and Grocery Conference in Sydney that the supermarket giant is transforming its food offer with a much more tailored range powered by innovation and convenience. The retailer is…
Supermarket giant Coles is targeting the 40 percent of Australians seeking healthier food choices with the launch of a new private label health food range. Wellness Road aims to provide customers with “uncomplicated, nutritionally balanced” options to make…
Coles is ramping up its convenience strategy, with a plan to grow sales on the back of “food-for-now” and “food-for-later” products. As part of this strategy, the brand will convert around 200 Coles supermarkets to a more premium, convenience-focused format,…
Coles is encouraging customers to reduce food and plastic waste at home with its latest promotion, which is this time aimed at adults. The Coles Fresh Food Container Program, offers ‘container credits’ when customers spend $20 or more using flybuys online or…
Supermarket giant Coles has entered into an exclusive services agreement with the world’s leading online grocery platform, Ocado, to double its home delivery capacity in Australia by the end of the 2023 financial year. Over the next four years, the…
Coles on Wednesday started selling a range of ‘everyday essentials’ on eBay, in a bid to reach some of the marketplace’s 11 million unique monthly visitors. The offering includes perishable and non-perishable items in Coles’ everyday essentials range across…
The Fair Work Commission has signed off on Coles’ new enterprise agreement, bringing an end to a three-year fight over the pay and conditions of more than 80,000 workers. FWC deputy president Val Gostencnik yesterday approved the contentious agreement after…
Coles has stepped up its price investment in a bid to catch up with Woolworths’ renewed momentum amid a warning that promotional fatigue may be setting in among shoppers as the supermarket wars rage on. UBS analyst Ben Gilbert’s latest report, citing a survey…
“For some but not all, lower interest costs, and then, in Sydney and Melbourne particularly, there’s the wealth effect of higher house prices. And [share]markets have generally been OK so people’s superannuation balances are probably looking OK.” Mr Goyder…
The supermarket wars have pushed two of Australia’s big advertisers in different directions, with No. 1 supermarket Woolworths revving up its spending while Coles winds its down. Woolworths is estimated to have spent $18.8 million on traditional advertising…
Discount retailer Aldi Australia has vowed to maintain pricing pressure on rivals in the AUD85 billion (USD69.58b) grocery market, after increasing sales by 13 percent in 2014, outpacing food and liquor sales growth at Coles and Woolworths almost three-fold.…
