The AACS overseas Study Tour is now underway – plan ahead for next year
Missed the NACS Show? Plan now for 2015 with AACS
Jeff Rogut The NACS Show was bigger than ever this year in Las Vegas. New products, ideas, trends networking, and educational sessions covering a variety of topical issues for the industry. The good news in that the Show will be held in Las Vegas again between the 11th and 14th October 2015. Diarise the dates now and we will advise our full study tour plans soon. Look forward to having you join us in 2015.
Read MoreConvenience stores call on ACCC to keep watch as supermarkets plan smaller shops
Carolyn Cummins October 10, 2014 www.theage.com.au Death of the milk bar? Supermarkets are looking to buy into the corner store market. Photo: Anu Kumar A battle is looming between the major supermarkets and corner store operators, with peak industry bodies warning operators to keep the game fair and the playing field level. Woolworths has lodged a development application for a new, smaller store near Sydney’s Central Station and is scouring capital cities for smaller sites, in competition with convenience-style stores. The other supermarkets, including Coles and Metcash, are also said to have strategies to introduce smaller stores, to cater for new apartments in the cities, which have smaller retail sites at ground level. But the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores has said supermarkets’ growth strategies have raised questions for the smaller operators. Woolworths already has a smaller format store in Sydney’s Woolloomooloo area and will use that as a benchmark…
Read MoreSUPERMARKET PUSH INTO CONVENIENCE RAISES INTERESTING QUESTIONS
MEDIA RELEASE October 10, 2014 With the major supermarkets reportedly looking to rollout smaller outlets in city locations to compete with traditional convenience stores, the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) has raised a few interesting questions about this strategy and renewed calls for a level playing field in the retail sector. Speaking from the USA where he is attending the NACS Show, the largest global convenience conference and exhibition, AACS CEO Jeff Rogut said it will be important for the ACCC and other regulatory bodies to ensure convenience stores and small businesses in general are not disadvantaged by such a strategy from the major chains. Price is one area to watch, according to Mr Rogut, while the unfair restrictions on convenience stores selling packaged alcohol, for instance, will be thrust into the spotlight. “It will be important to ensure the retail environment is competitive should the major chains push…
Read MoreColes banned from advertising bread baked fresh in store
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 AAP SUPERMARKET chain Coles has been banned for three years from advertising that its bread was made or baked on the day it was sold. Coles was also ordered to display a Federal Court notice in its stores and on its website telling shoppers that it had broken Australian consumer law by falsely advertising bread products as “freshly baked†and “baked todayâ€. Federal Court judge James Allsop made the ruling today after Coles was found guilty in June for making false, misleading and deceptive representations in relation to the freshness of its bread. Coles has been banned from promoting its bread as baked on the day it is being sold or made from fresh dough for three years. It must tell consumers of the ban and that it had been found to have made the false, misleading and deceptive representations by advertising bread as fresh when it…
Read MoreInnovation…….something fresh, that creates value
Jeff Rogut CEO AACS “Something new is not enough for the definition of innovation. There are plenty cases where something new has no new value (a new color of a product or a new chemical produced that does nothing). Sometimes, the value creation results because the item is simply useful to us. We can create a lot of fresh or new things that are of no use and no value. It must create value to be innovation. Also note that the “something†could be a process, product, or service and can start as small as your ideas and thoughts in your brain. In that case, it might just be innovative thinking.†Source: freshconsulting In the ongoing quest for business growth, and even sustainability, innovation is often trotted out as the ‘silver bullet’ yet few businesses really get this right in a lasting and meaningful way, or possibly having had initial…
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