Roger Corbett’s Christian values didn’t appear to count for much when the opportunity presented for Woolies to leap into the pokies business. Why is the anti-gambling Salvation Army associated with someone who actively supports pokies?
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Popping the cork on the Coles vs. Woolies bubbly war
In the season of champagne racing breakfasts, expensive champagne has become significantly cheaper thanks to parallel importing and a price war going on between Vintage Cellars and Dan Murphy’s. The biggest winner? Thirsty consumers.
NAB sees blue skies ahead
The NAB’s quarterly business survey shows improvements in confidence, expectations and conditions ahead of tomorrow’s important consumer inflation figures.
Grocery retail dominance is a threat to public health
It is easy to bash the grocery heavies, but to really address the issue of healthy eating, a multi-faceted approach is required — one that looks at social and health factors as much as economic ones, writes Jon Wardle.
The fresh battle of the apples
It’s the tech gods vs. the fresh food people as Apple challenges Woolworths new logo, which is either an apple or a stylised ‘W’, depending who you ask. But are Woolies and Apple really rivals?
Walker must walk from Fairfax now
Fairfax patriarch John B Fairfax has condemned Ron Walker’s term as chairman, demanding he resign at the company’s November annual general meeting.
Coles folds on pokies, will Woolies be next?
Those nice men from Wesfarmers, sitting in pokies-free Perth, have wilted in the face of a strong campaign over kids in venues and committed to spend millions cleaning up their gambling venues, writes Stephen Mayne.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Comings and goings in the Nine newsroom
There’s movement at the station down at Nine Melbourne, Fairfax’s traineeships still on suspension, Woolies builds its own hardware team, and more from the Crikey tipsters.
Australia embraces the Woolworths economy
The supermarket business is at the heart of the Woolies cash machine, and big growth in the sector is tightening the group’s grip on Australian retailing.
Two supermarkets, one leader
Woolworths is in another class from Coles, says Malcolm Maiden. With Woolies lifting food and liquor sales by 7.4% in the last year, Coles is left to hope: surely they can’t keep this up.
Morning Market Report: Market down this morning
The market is down 7, but Wall St gained slightly overnight. Also, Woolworths is up, but the focus is on the Hardware roll-out, which will probably not reflect well on Wesfarmers (Bunnings).
Lowes hardware just the beginning for Woolworths
Retail giant Woolworths is moving into hardware to take on Wesfarmers’s key business, Bunnings Warehouse, making a takeover bid for Danks Holdings, which operates Home Timber and Hardware, Thrifty-Link and Plants Plus Garden Centres.
Petrol pricing move likely to backfire on the major retailers
Whilst shopper docket schemes at Coles and Woolworths have been considered pro-competitive up to now, the ACCC are now looking a bit more closely.
Woolworths: in ur fridge, tracking ur foodz
Supermarkets are using customer loyalty cards to keep track of what you are — and aren’t — buying from the store and where you’re getting petrol.
Morning Market Report: A quiet start to the week
The market is up 34, while the Dow is up 96.
Qantas-Woolworths loyalty monopoly
The long previewed points earning linkage between Woolworths and Qantas gets yet another media launch today, this time with a start date and some interesting extra spin.
Will Woolies give Labor $20m for pokies empire?
With Labor now effectively declaring the pokies business was damaging its brand, Woolworths has come to a major fork in the road.
Morning Market Report: Market up, Woolworths to report
The market is up 67 … The Dow was up 95
Woollies, Mathiesons and the licence to print money
From a harm minimisation perspective, large scale pokie operations appear to be a big part of the problem, writes Charles Livingston.
Pokies stats reveal the ‘extreme capitalism’ of Woolworths
It really is time Woolies was forced to defend its position on pokies, writes Stephen Mayne.
Big Groceries and Big Petrol meet Big Airline
Just why big brands should be permitted to extend an iron grip over the once simple process of buying everyday needs to be examined, writes Ben Sandilands.
Pokies moguls in Machiavellian Fairfax plot
Roger Corbett and Ron Walker lunched at Machiavelli’s in Sydney this week. Were they plotting the future of our most venerable media company? Stephen Mayne writes.
Naughty naughty Woolies compares apples to oranges
In reporting its results this week, Woolworths has been creative with comparing this year’s performance to last, as Glenn Dyer discovered.
