It’s great. It’s needed a redevelopment for a long time.
Harbourside at Darling Harbour has been rundown for some time now, but still sad to see that place go. Was quite popular in the 1990s and early 2000s. Not so popular in recent years.
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Coles have updated their website for online shopping. Paying with Flypay is no longer an option . They tell me this will be re added at some point again but they don’t know when.
So if you have money to get off your shop you have to shop in store at the moment again.
Excuse my ignorance but has Liberty and IGA been in partnership for long?
A Liberty service station near my folks recently had a renovation to include a “IGA Local Grocer” replacing their Time Saver Express Supermarket concept.
Was the old supermarket part of IGA anyway but they just didn’t make the IGA branding obvious?
There’s a new supermarket at Rockdale called The Muglan Village Grocer. They promote it as a specialist in Nepalese and Indian groceries. Inside, they seems to use signage and tickets that looks the same as IGA and they have the same specials every week that are in the IGA catalogue. But they do not use the IGA logo anywhere and have The Muglan home brand products on the shelf. Maybe they are like Romeo’s who use that as prominent branding rather than IGA.
If The Muglan Village Grocer is part of IGA, I think it might be a mistake not to use the IGA branding. It’s a brand which shoppers know and trust and I think they would attract more customers who know the brand. Some may avoid it completely thinking it is only an Indian or Asian grocer.
Has anyone seen one of these supermarkets anywhere else?
Not sure how long but a lot of the small regional IGAs that I know of in Queensland in my lifetime (which let’s be honest isn’t that long) are called Liberty IGA. And it goes Liberty Logo followed by the IGA logo.
David Jones could be changing owners once again.
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Seems WOW are exiting all the risky categories to it’s brand perception (gaming, alcohol, fuel, hotels).
Certainly appears they won’t be disposing BIGW anytime soon. Seems to fit the new agenda going forward. They tried to get Priceline however that went to Wesfarmers.
I guess Everyday Rewards will be making an appearance soon at Petstock, and I would expect Woolworths to take a full stake in 24 months with an eagerness to expand the footprint and build a monopoly. That is one huge payday coming for those business founders.
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Did Petstock buy My Pet Warehouse? I got this a few weeks ago
Also there is another site that Woolworths gives Everyday Rewards Points for www.petculture.com.au … does Woolies own that ? A quick google search says
“PetCulture is a joint venture between Woolworths Group and PetSure, Australia’s leading provider of pet insurance and an innovator in the broader pet healthcare ecosystem.”
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There is more:
The grocery chain’s subsidiary, HealthyLife, is buying the non-retail assets including key technology and a warehouse, of SuperPharmacy, an online pharmacy specialist with six stores that has operated for more than 20 years. It’s understood the transaction is valued at less than $20 million.
(Woolworths) flagged that the SuperPharmacy stores will be rebranded HealthyLife Pharmacy…
The six SuperPharmacy retail stores located in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and West Australia will continue to be owned and operated independently.
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Sounds like there trying to create an online-only pharmacy set-up and compete with Chemist warehouse and other pharmacies that way.
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Although chemists can only be owned by pharmacists in Australia.
Woolworths can’t retail prescription drugs unless every shareholder became a pharmacist.
Chemists Warehouse home delivery involving medication is done on a store by store basis, ensuring that pharmacy retailing is still done by a pharmacist.
Woolies is getting into the supply side of where chemists buy their stock, not the retailing of the stock to the public.
I went into a Best Friends Pets store last week and was confused by all the Pet Stock Rewards branding inside the store. Apparently Pet Stock acquired them too and now Woolworths has bought them. Like TPG buying out IINet after it had acquired all the small ISPs.
And now I get spammed by Pet Stock and Best Friends Pets.
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My local Big W are already selling back to school stuff & get ready everyone for hot cross buns in the supermarkets from next Monday!
School has just finished for the year in many states. Why can’t Big W give the kids a break! I think it (and Officeworks / Target / Kmart etc.) should hold off selling back to school products until mid January at the earliest.
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A lot of secondary schools actually start the new school year at the end of term 4. And a lot of parents want to get organised before Christmas/New Year starts, it’ll be back before you know it.
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And Woolies + Coles should wait until Feb/March before bringing out the HOT CROSS BUNS!!
My store has plenty of back to school pallets out the back, but nothing can (or will) go out until after Boxing Day as we still have a huge chunk of Christmas stock unsold
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If kids lives are dictated by what’s on the shelves in Big W these families have bigger issues to deal with.
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I swear we have this argument every year. lol