10/01/22; Drone Life Asian convenience stores are known for the wide variety and high quality of their products – and now, 7-Eleven in Japan is adding 20 minute delivery to their offerings. ANA Holdings, Japan’s major airline consortium and the group behind ALL NIPPON Airways and Air Japan, is leading a trial of drone deliver […]
12/01/22; Global Convenience Store Focus Trends in mobility, food and tech will shape the global retail convenience industry in 2022 and beyond. Retailers who lead and innovate in these fields will thrive. Those who don’t risk becoming irrelevant to shoppers, if not redundant. All three trends are consumer driven – in part or in their […]
13/01/22, Global Convenience Store Focus Norway avoided charging ‘on the go’ bottlenecks – will the UK? Norway, one of the earliest consumer markets to embrace electric vehicles has steadily increased the number of passenger vehicles registered as either battery electric (B.E.V), plug-in hybrid or full hybrid over the last decade. In 2021 almost 65% of […]
The Moodie Davitt Report Lagardère Travel Retail Pacific and Australian travel retailer AWPL announced today that they plan to form a joint venture, effective from 1 January 2022. The 50:50 JV, titled Lagardère AWPL, will embrace each company’s operations in Australia and New Zealand including duty free, food services, travel essentials and specialty retail. The […]
11/02/22; The Australian Critical industry groups held crisis meetings with the federal government on Tuesday night amid fears Omicron-induced staff shortages could cripple the economy, as Scott Morrison seeks a national deal to loosen isolation requirements for more workforces. Going into the meeting, industry leaders warned that staff shortages could leave ports disrupted, airports facing […]
13/02/22; AFR Up to 400,000 foreign students will be able to work extra hours under a temporary relaxation of visa rules to ease crippling labour shortages, amplified by the isolation of thousands of workers in response to COVID-19. As the omicron wave disrupts commerce, fuel stations warned motorists could suffer a repeat of UK petrol […]
