Kraft Heinz and Goodman Fielder have teamed up to launch a major winter marketing collaboration, partnering with Woolworths New Zealand on a cross-category supermarket campaign.
New World Matamata is reporting a positive to response to the opening of its “Chat Lane”, believed to be the first initiative of its kind in New Zealand supermarkets.
Woolworths New Zealand has a new face at the executive table, appointing digital innovator Oliver Lynch as its new CustomerX director.
Plant-based eating is not just about changing minds. It is about changing the conditions in which food choices happen: the prices, the products, the promotions, and everyday habits.
One of Invercargill’s longest-standing local supermarkets has reopened, with SuperValue Plaza now operating as FreshChoice Plaza following a significant redevelopment.
A new, significantly expanded Four Square Te Puna has opened, doubling the size of the 16-year-old local community hub to meet growing regional demand.
New Zealand grocery shoppers are exhibiting a “heightened sensitivity to price and perceived value,” with purchasing power disrupted by years of compounding cost pressures, according to Circana.
Foodtech firm Radix Nutrition is opening the doors of its purpose-built Waikato factory, adding contract manufacturing to its business model in a major diversification move.
Debates over whether public grocery stores can turn a profit, however, miss the point. The more urgent question is: Why do so many need an alternative model to the grocery stores they already have?
Foodstuffs recorded an average year-on-year retail price increase of 2.6% across its comparable Stats NZ Food Price Inflation basket, which came in at 3.2% for May.
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“Cost increases [are likely] to filter through over the coming months, although the magnitude and breadth of cost changes remains uncertain and likely to adjust,” says Olsen.
