An Australian delivery service has established a way for online consumers to receive their parcels at the local convenience store, rather than having to collect them from an Australia Post outlet. ParcelPoint...

German discount supermarket chain Aldi has been awarded the ‘Supermarket of the Year’ title at an inaugural ‘Customer Satisfaction Awards’ hosted by Australian market research company Roy Morgan Research. The...

Australia’s two leading supermarket chains, Coles and Woolworths, are rolling out a new card payment system which does not require a signature or a PIN number from the customer. The system will comprise...

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)’s chairman Rod Sims has announced that the ACCC will not appeal the Full Federal Court’s decision to allow Metcash’s acquisition of the Franklins...

The Australian Government has today announced changes to food store and alcohol licensing in the Northern Territory. Under the changes, areas outside of major centres in the Northern Territory will be...

Research findings published today by market researcher Newspoll suggest that almost half of Australians are ‘supermarket grazers’, who admit helping themselves to free produce while shopping in supermarkets. In...

US club store operator Costco has booked a jump in earnings for the first nine months of the year as strong sales gains boosted the group’s result. Net sales for the nine months to 8 May rose 13%...

South East Queensland residents should not “panic-buy” in supermarkets following the current flooding situation which has now affected Brisbane, the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC)...

Australia’s second-largest independent supermarket group, Foodworks, has appointed a new CEO to replace Peter Noble, architect of the company’s disastrous attempt to acquire 45 struggling Coles...

UK retail giant Tesco has launched the country’s first drive-thru supermarket. The retailer’s Baldock Extra store in Hertfordshire will be used as a trial store for the drive-thru service, the firm...