WESFARMERS

Yep - just like any other corporate - Owned by Wesfarmers who just bought Coles today -

And Office Work employees !

Are we name bashing?......oh yeah!!!!

At the end of the day, if someone hadn't brought Coles, it would have gone into liquidation. The difference between Coles and Woolies is enormous.

I like both supermarkets and will shop at either but behind the scenes, Woolies does things well and Coles are nowhere near catching up. I predict that Wesfarmers will cut jobs and scale back to whole company in order to save it. once it's finances are back in order and it has done some restructuring, it can regrow and take on Woolies.

New jobs in a profitable company. As for Bunnings, no worse than any of the other home hardware superstores IMO. If you want low prices, then expect less service, if you want service, expect higher prices. They can only squeeze the poor Chinese factory workers so hard.

I am finding myself more and more in Mitre10 due to price and availability so some goods. I am lucky in that there is a massive Mitre 10 200 metres down from bunnings

I think it depends on the store. My local shopping centre has both Coles and Woolies - while the W has a bakery - I go to Coles every time. No long queues, good specials and nice staff. My Woolies is horribly expensive - almost 20% more for our usual "basket" of goods.

Mind you - nothing beats Aldi Those checkout operators are lightning!

Correct 3xb -
Bunnnings, walmart, coles Wollies etc all have the same systems - pretty much - its just how you monitor and manage it that counts.
It just takes lots of co-ordination and managment drive to make it happen.
Coles, wollies etc have all been driving towards this - note the vegie crates in the supermarkets now - all part of their efficieny improvements - one time handling.
Personally I don't mind Woolies, or Wesfarmers buying coles, or owning Bunnings, at least they are Australian and our dollars are staying in Australia.

As for the A - well' that moneys going back to Germany and they make the savings by tough purchasing on supliers and pallets on floors.
Steve

Although buying groceries isn’t everyone’s idea of a great day out, investigations by Roy Morgan Research show that almost half of all main grocery buyers enjoy strolling up and down the aisles of a grocery store.

Presenting at the National Retail Forum this August, Roy Morgan Research has been investigating consumer attitudes towards household grocery shopping over the past 20 years, however, in the last eight years has encountered fluctuating results between genders.

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Michelle Levine, CEO, Roy Morgan Research, will be presenting ‘What the consumer is telling us’ at the National Retail Forum, along with many other industry experts including Bernie Brookes, CEO, Myer; Peter Alexander, founder, Peter Alexander Pyjamas; and Pierce Cody, director, Macro Wholefoods.

Michelle, Its driven by the big supermarkets "Psychological" lane setout.
They only have 6 or 7 shop layouts country wide and these layouts are designed to NOT contain everything you want in the one aisle?
Why ?
Because they want us to have to visit every aisle - so we do a bit of impromptu - hmm I'll get some of those while I'm here.
Ever wondered why they never put everything in the same place
Thast why - to boost the sales of non staple - higher profit items.
Steve