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Economists shape the world in many ways, but some of their conclusions are counter-intuitive to say the least.
In three different experiments, plant-based meal sales rose when there were more menu options.
New Zealand’s supermarket industry has come under fire for high food prices and lack of competition. Is it time to consider treating the supermarket industry like water and power utilities?
Fast grocery delivery services are expanding quickly, but their long-term survival is being questioned.
Most consumers want a better deal, but New Zealand’s small size and relative isolation make it hard for large-scale competitors to enter the supermarket sector.
Trademarking a shape of a product, or proving that a competitor is passing off their product as your own, is not easy. A high-profile settlement, though, is marketing gold.
Here’s how retailers can help.
Australia has a short-term distribution problem, not a lack of food problem, and most foods have substitutes.
Sainsbury’s is also experimenting with the till-free technology.
Supermarket employees, still laboring in crisis mode, continue to report significant rises in physical and mental health problems.
Everything from lorry driver shortages to container ship problems are conspiring to make it a tight Christmas for retailers.
The pandemic home-delivery boom is driving a push to automation and precarious work by Australian supermarkets.
Reassurances around the takeover of UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain come with a strong sense of deja vu.
Converting food waste to animal feed – or reducing it altogether by supermarkets working with farmers – could save millions of tonnes of food from being discarded. It could also help raise animal welfare standards.
Thanks to a bid from a private equity firm backed by former Tesco boss Terry Leahy, the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain is in play.
We still don’t know whether ecolabels are significantly better for the environment than alternatives.
Discriminatory zoning and housing policies have concentrated poverty in America along racial lines. As a result, healthy food options are limited in many low-income and Black neighborhoods.
Another local lockdown, another outbreak of shoppers stockpiling. Fortunately supply chains are now prepared.
Since opening its first Australian stores on January 25 2001, Aldi has profoundly influenced the supermarket landscape.
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Dean, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Economics, Monash University
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Professor in Sustainable Production and Consumption, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Public Health, Deakin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD, Political Economy, Macquarie University
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Retail Academic Researcher, Business School, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University
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Professor of Accounting, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor, Supply Chain Analytics, University of Bradford