SUPERMARKETS – AUSTRALIA

Aldi is now the most-read supermarket catalogue, but Coles & Woolworths convert more readers into shoppers

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 24-Mar-17

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 5.1 million Australians aged 14+ read or looked into an Aldi catalogue in the year to December 2016. Aldi’s weekly catalogue reach surpassed that for Coles (4.9 million) and Woolworths (4.8 million) for the first time in 2016. Readership of Aldi catalogues has now grown for three consecutive years, up 28 per cent over the period from four million Australians a week in 2013. IGA’s catalogues also gained readers from 2013 to 2015 but declined in 2016. The survey also shows that 52 per cent of Woolworths’ catalogue reach leads to a sale (up from 48 per cent in 2013), just ahead of 50 per cent for Coles (up from 46 per cent). Aldi’s reader-to-shopper conversion rate is unchanged over the period at 38 per cent, while IGA’s has grown from 36 to 37 per cent.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, ALDI STORES SUPERMARKETS PTY LTD, COLES SUPERMARKETS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, WOOLWORTHS SUPERMARKETS, IGA

Coles to reduce pay time for suppliers to 14 days

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Original article by Fleur Anderson
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 2 : 3-Mar-17

Small Business & Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell will shortly make recommendations on sanctions for large companies that do not pay suppliers promptly. Meanwhile, Coles has committed to reducing its payment terms for many smaller suppliers from an average of 30 days to no more than 14 days. Coles MD John Durkan stresses that the new policy, which takes effect from mid-2017, is being introduced independently of Carnell’s review of payment terms.

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COLES SUPERMARKETS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. OFFICE OF THE AUSTRALIAN SMALL BUSINESS AND FAMILY ENTERPRISE OMBUDSMAN, RED KELLY’S GOURMET FOODS PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND SCIENCE, MARKET INVOICE

Australians yet to embrace online grocery shopping

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 7-Dec-16

Roy Morgan Research’s latest State of the Nation Retail Spotlight report revealed that Australian grocery buyers made more than 2.5 trips per week to supermarkets in 2015-16, or 1.95 billion trips for the year. And despite the ever-increasing popularity of online retail, the vast majority of Australians continue to do their grocery shopping in-store rather than online. A Roy Morgan Single Source survey, which was carried out in the year to June 2015, found that 26% of Australians agreed that "I’d consider doing some of my grocery shopping on the Internet in the next 12 months". However, just 3% of grocery buyers did their supermarket shopping online in any given four-week period during the following 12 months. Admittedly, this is an increase on 2011 (when it was 1.4%), but it is unlikely that there will be a mass exodus to online grocery shopping any time soon.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, AUSSIE FARMERS DIRECT, COLES SUPERMARKETS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, WOOLWORTHS LIMITED – ASX WOW, CATCH GROUP PTY LTD, GROCERY RUN, INDO-ASIAN GROCERY STORE

Aldi sees plenty of growth to come

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Original article by Eli Greenblat
The Australian – Page: 19 & 20 : 2-Nov-16

The Australian market share of German supermarket chain Aldi is currently less than 10 per cent, although local CEO Tom Daunt believes that the group can lift this to 14-15 per cent within the next several years. He also concedes that growth in store numbers across the eastern states will slow in coming years. Daunt stresses that Aldi will maintain its policy of having the lowest grocery prices, while the group intends to refurbish all of its existing east coast stores in order to be competitive in the fresh food segment of the grocery market.

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ALDI STORES SUPERMARKETS PTY LTD, COLES SUPERMARKETS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, WOOLWORTHS LIMITED – ASX WOW

Chicken wars not just between Coles and Woolworths

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 28-Oct-16

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 84.4% of Australians consume chicken in an average week, while 77.0% drink milk and 70.0 % eat bread/toast in the same period. The survey also shows that 89.0% of people who mainly shop at Coles and 88.5% of those who mainly shop at Woolworths eat chicken in any given seven days. Meanwhile, 28.4% of Australians visited at least one fast-food chicken restaurant in any given four weeks in the year to June 2016, compared with 29.2% in the year to June 2015. The proportion of Woolworths and Coles shoppers who visited at least one fast-food chicken restaurant in any given four weeks has fallen from 33.1% to 30.4% and from 30.8% to 30.0% respectively.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, COLES SUPERMARKETS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, WOOLWORTHS LIMITED – ASX WOW, IGA, ALDI STORES SUPERMARKETS PTY LTD, KFC, RED ROOSTER FOODS, NANDO’S AUSTRALIA PTY LTD

Supermarket weep: Woolies’ share continues to fall and Coles and Aldi split the proceeds

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 25-Oct-16

The latest quarterly Supermarket Currency report from Roy Morgan Research shows that Australia’s grocery buyers spent $A89.8bn at supermarkets during the 12 months to September 2016. This represents 87 per cent of the $A103bn spent on groceries overall. Roy Morgan Research estimates that Australians spent $A32.6bn at Woolworths in the past 12 months – 36.3 per cent of all supermarket expenditure nationally. This is down $A825m compared with the previous year, representing a decline in market share of 1.4 percentage points. Meanwhile, grocery shoppers spent $A29.8bn at Coles in the last year, $A1.1bn more than the year before. Coles gained 0.9 percentage points in market share, to 33.2 per cent. Aldi took in 12.5 per cent of Australia’s supermarket dollars ($A11.2bn), ahead of IGA with 9.8 per cent ($A8.8bn).

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, WOOLWORTHS LIMITED – ASX WOW, COLES SUPERMARKETS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, IGA, ALDI STORES SUPERMARKETS PTY LTD

Supermarket satisfaction: a one-horse race?

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 6-Oct-16

Roy Morgan Research has announced the winners of its Customer Satisfaction Awards for August 2016. Aldi was the top-rating supermarket chain in August, with a customer satisfaction rating of 96 per cent, ahead of Foodland (94 per cent), IGA (92 per cent), Coles (91 per cent) and Woolworths/Safeway (88 per cent). Aldi also had the highest customer satisfaction rating in six out of nine grocery sub-categories (dairy, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, meat, packaged groceries and general merchandise). Of the three remaining sub-categories, Aldi does not have deli and seafood counters.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, ALDI STORES SUPERMARKETS PTY LTD, FOODLAND AUSTRALIA LIMITED, IGA, COLES SUPERMARKETS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, WOOLWORTHS SUPERMARKETS, AUSTRALIAN SAFEWAY STORES PTY LTD

Woolies chief sees green shoots

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Original article by Eli Greenblat
The Australian – Page: 19 & 23 : 26-Aug-16

Australian-listed retailer Woolworths has posted a 2015-16 net loss of $A1.23bn, while revenue was down 1.2 per cent at $A58.08bn. The result was marred by write-downs and impairment charges exceeding $A4bn. CEO Brad Banducci says further reducing grocery prices will continue to be a priority in 2016-17. He adds that there was 0.3 per cent growth in like-for-like store sales during the first eight weeks of the financial year. Shareholders will receive a final dividend of $A0.33 per share.

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WOOLWORTHS LIMITED – ASX WOW, COLES SUPERMARKETS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, ALDI STORES SUPERMARKETS PTY LTD, MASTERS HOME IMPROVEMENT AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, BIG W DISCOUNT STORES, ENDEAVOUR DRINKS GROUP, DAN MURPHY’S, AUSTRALIAN LEISURE AND HOSPITALITY GROUP LIMITED

Woolworths tries third rejig of loyalty scheme

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Original article by Sue Mitchell
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 23-Aug-16

Australian-listed retailer Woolworths has again changed its customer loyalty scheme. This is the third modification of the scheme in 10 months. The company decided to reintroduce Qantas Frequent Flyer points in order to make the system more attractive to AB-demographic shoppers, who switched to other supermarkets when these points were removed from the scheme in 2015. Analysts have welcomed the changes to the scheme.

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WOOLWORTHS LIMITED – ASX WOW, BWS – BEER WINE SPIRITS, CALTEX AUSTRALIA LIMITED – ASX CTX, AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR RETAIL STUDIES, BIG W DISCOUNT STORES, QANTAS AIRWAYS LIMITED – ASX QAN

Why Woolworths and Telstra are a perfect match (and so are Coles and Optus)

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 12-Aug-16

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 47 per cent of Australian grocery buyers aged 14+ who mainly shop at Woolworth are Telstra mobile phone customers, compared with 39 per cent of Coles’ main shoppers. Meanwhile, 22 per cent of Coles’ main shoppers are Optus mobile phone customers, compared with 19 per cent of Woolworths’ main shoppers. The survey, which was carried out in the year to March 2016, also shows that Woolworths is more commonly associated with Quality and Coles with Price – just as Telstra and Optus are.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, WOOLWORTHS LIMITED – ASX WOW, TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED – ASX TLS, COLES SUPERMARKETS AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD