Convenience Mattters November 2017

Chair’s Comments – Dave Hooker

Convenience Leaders’ Summit November 9^th

NZACS hosted this year’s Leaders’ summit in Auckland last week. A group of 80 members & guests enjoyed an afternoon of excellent guest speakers covering Convenience 2030, NZ shopper insights, trip reports from our two scholarship winners on their experience at NACS in Chicago, and Managing Public affairs from industry veteran Janet Wilson.

The keynote closing address was given by Bruce Cotterill 

It’s not often you get a speaker that connects with  everyone in the audience from 25 to 65 years old ranging from small business owners to senior corporate managers. Ranging from leadership to management, managing millennials and sharing entertaining and thought provoking anecdotes Bruce provided an upbeat and thoroughly enjoyable close to the afternoon.

The afternoon was followed by an excellent evening of networking over dinner at Pilkington’s Restaurant & bar.

Thanks to all of our speakers from NZ and Australia and thank you to all of those that attended.

Copies of selected presentations will be available shortly on the members section of the NZACS website.

Tetra Pak Creates Dairy And Juice Packaging That Converts Into Frozen Desserts

Tetra Pak has launched a new packaging that converts liquid dairy and juice drinks into ice-cream and frozen dessert products. Available from 2018 in Greater Middle East, Europe and Asia, the way the package works is dairy and juice drinks can be produced and distributed in small carton pouches at room temperature and turned into frozen products in shops or in a consumer’s home. Frozen yogurt is emerging as a healthy and tasty alternative. Read more

Alibaba 11.11 Sale To Showcase New Retail Concept

Alibaba’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival will introduce their new retail concept which integrates online and offline shopping experiences. During the festival, Alibaba will collaborate with 52 shopping malls to set up 60 New Retail-powered pop-up stores across 12 cities in China. Nearly 100,000 stores in 31 provinces and 334 cities throughout China will be converted into ‘smart stores’ with a range of New Retail experiences such as facial-recognition payment and scan and deliver O2O shopping. Read more

AUSTRALIA

USA

To help marketers better understand the digital behaviours of GenZ (13-17 year olds), and how they compare to older generations, Google and Ipsos teamed up. The research findings are eye-opening. Read more

What Happens When A Retailer Doesn’t Use Social Media

Research has shown that independent retailers can no longer ignore using social media. Retailers don’t have to be active every day, but if they aren’t there and can’t be seen, then they can be sure that someone else will eventually usurp their space and potentially damage their business. Read more

NZAC Show Highlights Top-Cool New Products

Attendees at this year’s NACS Show, attended by nearly 25,000 people, used handheld scanners to capture product details of 315 plus products featured in the Preview Room. Based on the total scans, the top 10 Cool New Products were led by Java House Authentic Cold Brew Coffee, followed by Protein Cakes – Protein & Superfruit. Read more

UK

ACS rejects calls for tobacco licensing system for retailers

ACS hit out at AHS UK’s calls for the government to introduce a licensing system for retailers that sell tobacco. James Lowman, ACS chief executive, said “we do not believe that tobacco licensing is an effective deterrent to the illicit trade and instead serves only to impose financial and administrative burdens on retailers”. Read more

Grocery Shoppers Now Take Pride In Grabbing A Bargain

Buying food bearing a “reduced” label no longer comes with stigma attached to it, as a study reveals more and more shoppers take pride in bagging a bargain. According to Waitrose’s Food & Drink Report 2017-2018, released today, 53 per cent of shoppers buy from the reduced section more often than they did five years ago. For 18 to 24-year-olds, the figure is 68 per cent. Read more

Direct-to-Consumer the Future?

A new digital service that will see brands sell direct-to-consumer- may bring grocers under threat with wholesale giants Unilever and Mars already signed up. The new digital grocery service looks to cut grocery bills by up to 30%, allowing wholesalers to sell directly to consumers. The platform could launch in the UK as early as next year, which would see products like Marmite, Uncle Ben’s and Whiskas sold at a cheaper rate than offered at supermarkets by cutting out the ‘middleman’. Read more