This announcement came after Ampol revealed on Monday that it posted a 23% drop in first half profit.
Ampol also announced its biggest inflatable rescue boat hull giveaway.
Who knew eshays were that organised? 
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I was in a Rebel last week, I could see the group of youths in the corner, and I told the staff they are about to do something, they literally just grabbed all this Nike clothing off the fixtures, with security tags still on, and simply just walked out with it all, staff at the entrance sort of blocked it and said you are not leaving, but the kids just told them to F Off and kept walking. They didn’t run off or anything, that’s what got me, they just casually left with probably a grand worth of clothing.
You can’t intervene with this stuff anymore as they are probably armed with knives or something, as one of my cop mates keeps telling me.
Was it a Western Sydney store? That’s par for the course around here.
No Melbourne’s west.
Is Melbourne’s west like western Sydney? As in eshays and organised crime and the like?
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No
So which part of Melbourne has the eshays and crime lords? Should Rebel be operating in those parts?
Harris Farm has taken out four supermarket awards in a vote by thousands of Aussie shoppers.
More than 10,000 Aussie consumers ranked Australia’s supermarkets in Finder’s Customer Satisfaction Awards. Harris Farm was the big winner, voted the ‘Most Loved’, ‘Most Recommended’, ‘Most Trusted’ and ‘Top Rated Supermarket Produce’.
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That’s great at and, but at the end of the day price is king, and most people will gladly dump a independent/local/etc for a bigger chain if the basket will come out cheaper.
Yes but I would argue that stores in particular IGAs, Metcash have more stores overall than Woolworths have individually so they should have just as good buying power from wholesalers or manufacturers yet if you go there most things unless they are on special are more expensive than Woolworths. There is no excuse for that.
Not to mention some stores in towns whereby there is only an IGA charge more just because they can when you can drive additional 20 minutes down the road to a town with a Coles or Woolworths and get the same basket of goods 20 per cent cheaper. That means people who do not have a vehicle have to buy the more expensive basket of goods as they can’t easily travel to the bigger town. I think that was forgotten in recent supermarket government enquiries.
Woolworths is vertically integrated so they buy from the wholesaler then sell to the customer.
Metcash is the middle man, they buy from wholesalers then make money by being the the wholesaler to independents.
Metcash operate zero stores - IGA stores are independently owned/operated under a franchise model.
Woolies/Coles/Aldi also benefit from huge economies of scale vs your local IGA when it comes to leasing and other operating costs.
Yes but they own IGA
Woolworths in The Glen shopping centre has a new security gate installed this week, at the exit of self served checkouts.
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Big Reporting week across the sector this week. Today was Endeavour, and obviously some serious strategy issues.
Interested to see if any news this week out of the Wesfarmers camp around the future of Target, and Woolworths around the future of BIGW.
Expecting strong results from Coles and Kmart this week. All eyes will likely be on Woolworths as it cycles a disaster year and questions around its BIGW division.
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I would imagine Target will be skimmed upon from Wesfarmers. They’ve been pretty quiet ever since the Kmart merger. Woolworths on the other hand needs to address Big W this week because it’s state is nothing but alarming.
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Wouldn’t be surprised if Target gets a rebrand. Maybe push for Anko or something to soft launch a formal merge brandwise with Kmart.