Woolworths: in ur fridge, tracking ur foodzSupermarkets 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.
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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.
How big media omits Woolworths from damaging pokies yarns
Melissa Fyfe had a cracking page one story in The Sunday Age yesterday revealing the rorting of so-called community benefit payments by various AFL clubs at their pokies venues, writes Stephen Mayne.
Full marks to Woolies for fronting Four Corners
4 Corners provided plenty of ammunition for those concerned about Australia’s unique and hugely profitable grocery duopoly, writes Stephen Mayne.
Record Woolies profits but what about the damage?
A few reasons why we should look at the Woolworths’ profits results with a sceptical eye. By Crikey founder Stephen Mayne.
Grocery watch won’t help the little guy: two retail insiders weigh in
Former retail executive Laurie Giuseppini and retail recruitment commentatorRob Lake cast a critical eye over GROCERYchoice, the government’s new system for monitoring grocery prices.
ACCC shuts down Woolworths’ Queanbeyan bid
Competition regulator the ACCC has shown it’s prepared to limit the future expansion prospects for Australia’s major supermarkets, Woolworths and Coles, by announcing it intends to oppose Woolworths’ attempts to buy a supermarket in Queanbeyan, writes Glenn Dyer.
The spin starts here: Woolies fronts the ACCC
Yesterday was never going to be easy for Woolies boss Michael Luscombe, writes Trevor Cook.
Woolies widening the gap on Coles
Any turnaround of Coles will be at a huge expense, writes former Coles executive Laurie Giuseppini.
Alcohol, it’s a super market
Want to curb teen drinking? Talk to the retailers, writes Glenn Dyer.
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
Food costs continue to grow
The drought continues to have an impact on a growing number of Australian companies, most notably Australasia’s biggest food group, Goodman Fielder, writes Glenn Dyer.
Trujillo’s million’s just don’t measure up to performance
The AFR’s very detailed Salary Review 2007 was published yesterday and it makes for interesting reading. Sadly, it is again Telstra boss, Sol Trujillo, who captures the eye, writes Adam Schwab.
Some (gratuitous) advice for Wesfarmers
In spite of some recent nervousness about the shareholder vote, the deal is done, and Wesfarmers will get the Coles’ door keys and the safe combinations on 23 November, writes Rob Lake.
Be prepared for surging food costs, cost of living to follow
Australians have been warned to prepare themselves for “some serious inflation” in our cost of living because of surging food costs, writes Glenn Dyer.
Woolies’ ALG in $87m of deals with Mathieson’s ALH
Woolworths, the country’s biggest retailer, has disclosed $87 million worth of related party transactions between it’s ALG group and related companies associated with the CEO of ALH, Bruce Mathieson.
The Government’s bulging ad, sorry, information budget
The government has the biggest advertising budget of any organisation in the country. Luke McKenna and Thomas Hunter track where all the money is going.
