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  • Coles, Woolies flogging flawed home-brand future: Aldi chief | The Australian on 2009-06-10

    • Woolworths' budget-priced range, Home Brand, has been around for 20 years and now comprises almost 1000 different products.


      To this has now been added the "Woolworths select" range, pitched as a slightly cheaper, brand-quality alternative to name-brand products, which has 400 products on the shelves with another 200 due by January.


      Private label products typically sell at a discount to their branded shelf-mates, allowing shoppers to save money.


      But retailers get to save even more because they are not paying manufacturers any premium for the value of outside brands, thus increasing retailers' sales margins.

  • End to end Strategy on 2009-05-27
    • ng to the company’s 2006 Annual report, inventory replenishment systems are well established and embedded in the business: “StockSmart (DC forecast based replenishment) has been implemented fully in our DCs and AutoStockR (store forecast based replenishment) has been rolled out to all supermarkets...The combination of StockSmart, AutoStockR and our Warehouse Management System has significantly enhanced Woolworths’ ability to plan its volumes and flows through both DCs and stores on a daily basis.”
    • On the agenda for some time, Steven Bradley believes significant untapped potential for the company lies in collaborative planning. “We have a number of vendor representatives who we call VRPs (vendor replenishment planners) who help align the flow of stock, and we are working with a number of vendors in an ever increasing way to keep improving. I have no doubt that better collaboration and the coordination of activities between retailers and suppliers is absolutely essential to establishing end to end supply chain efficiency.
  • Costco moving in > FOODweek Online > Main Features Page on 2009-05-27
    • Last year the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ran an inquiry into the competitiveness of grocery prices in Australia, amid public concern over a perceived stranglehold on the market between Coles and Woolworths.
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      In its July 2008 report, it found price competition between Coles and Woolworths was limited by high barriers to entry for new competitors combined with limited incentive for Coles and Woolworths to compete aggressively.

      But it found Aldi had been a "vigorous price competitor", forcing Coles and Woolworths to lower prices on many products.

      Docklands retail and restaurant owners, still reeling from the closure of the heat-buckled Southern Star Observation Wheel, welcomed the announcement, saying it would attract people and bring good flow-on business.
  • Woolies supply chain looks like a bind for Coles - theage.com.au on 2009-05-25
    • Woolworths, which has about 10 per cent of the retail petrol market and is continuing to expand its network, uses the discounts on petrol to increase volume and reward loyalty.
  • Web and Mobile Messenger for MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk, Facebook | eBuddy on 2009-05-18
  • Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship on 2009-05-17
    • hat makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks. This can result in connections between individuals that would not otherwise be made, but that is often not the goal, and these meetings are frequently between "latent ties" (Haythornthwaite, 2005) who share some offline connection. On many of the large SNSs, participants are not necessarily "networking" or looking to meet new people; instead, they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network. To emphasize this articulated social network as a critical organizing feature of these sites, we label them "socia
    • Currently, there are no reliable data regarding how many people use SNSs, although marketing research indicates that SNSs are growing in popularity worldwide (comScore, 2007). This growth has prompted many corporations to invest time and money in creating, purchasing, promoting, and advertising SNSs. At the same time, other companies are blocking their employees from accessing the sites. Additionally, the U.S. military banned soldiers from accessing MySpace (Frosch, 2007) and the Canadian government prohibited employees from Facebook (Benzie, 2007), while the U.S. Congress has proposed legislation to ban youth from accessing SNSs in schools and libraries (H.R. 5319, 2006; S. 49, 2007).
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  • Tell me the future | Media | The Guardian on 2009-04-30
    • We asked the godfather of the net to tell us where the technology will take us. He emailed his address book

    • al networks are blurring online and offline worlds, evolving into social destinations that are driving the direction of the larger web and affecting industries like advertising, music and politics.

      Predicting the future of social networks exclusively misses the larger point - these evolving online social destinations ar

  • woolworths type of distribution - Google Search on 2009-04-28
  • Exacting Woolworths standards on 2009-04-26
    • The company also has selective access to Marks & Spencer's intellectual property — such as production and process technologies and new product ideas — which it shares with its suppliers.
    • The quality of its supplies have been integral in building Woolworths into one of SA's leading retail brands, with an annual turnover of R20bn this year.
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  • Current Issues in Marketing Strategy: Coles and Woolworths pursue online dollars on 2009-04-26
    • Coles has doubled its online range to more than 17,000 product lines, in response Woolworths CIO Dan Beecham is talking up the value the internet presented. It's great that they are proactive, but experts warn that the retailers will struggle to win over shoppers, pointing to purchasing habits, pricing and logistics as barriers to success.
    • Many companies that go online benefit from centralized distribution and increased delivery efficiencies. Supermarkets do not share this luxury, due to the nature of perishables. In this instance, many food vendors find store based deliveries more manageable.
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