The retail gorillas, Coles and Woolworths may still have 75 per cent of grocery market share, but they are in the gunsights of a horde of hunters, all using new fangled weapons developed from the base...

Woolies and Coles have around 75 per cent of FMCG sales in this country, depending on whose numbers you believe, and which categories are included. They have huge scale, from the farm gate through the...

Amazon has been experimenting since December 2016 with a concept store ‘Amazon Go” in Seattle. It has been a ‘Beta’ store, open only to Amazon employees, as they set about solving...

Established supermarkets around the world work from a pretty similar, well-honed playbook. The current business model of supermarket retailers is all about scale and leverage applied to their supply chains,...

So, Amazon opened its first fulfilment warehouse in Australia last Thursday, to the sounds of the incumbent retailers either telling us that they will have no effect, or just not acknowledging the appearance...

Are the tiny cracks evident in the current supermarket business model just the beginning of what will become crevasses that will swallow supermarkets, or just annoyances that can be managed? My view is...

Amazon would not have paid $13.8 billion for Whole foods without a plan. The purchase came as a surprise to most, but it should not have, they have been evolving into bricks and mortar for some time, with...

So, Amazon has bought Whole Foods in a deal worth $13.7 Billion, around $18 billion Australian. The gorilla of the digital retail troupe has invested in an old fashioned, albeit trendy, bricks and mortar...

Opinion Piece What a fascinating time to be an observer of Fast Moving Consumer Goods retailing. The speed of strategic evolution is ramping up, and the risks to the investors in the two retail gorillas...

Woolworths has delivered in spades to shareholders in the last 20 years, but the rot had set in a decade ago.  The seeds of the rot were assisted in my view by a lack of credible competition, and management...