Intimate wellness has spent years sitting between pharmacy, convenience and category caution. Moments is now trying to push it into the retail mainstream, and that matters because shelf visibility is often the difference between a niche health product and a repeat purchase category. For FMCG teams, the signal is simple: sexual health is no longer … Read more
BWS is turning its in-store screens into a media business, and that matters because retail media is no longer confined to supermarket giants. The retailer already has more than 300 screens across Australia, so this partnership gives it a faster path to monetising attention at the shelf edge. For FMCG brands, the shift is practical … Read more
Australia’s Chemist Warehouse empire could be heading for a much bigger stage. Sigma Healthcare’s talks over Boots would reshape its capital structure, kill off IPO plans and hand it a UK pharmacy network with real scale. For FMCG suppliers, this is not just a corporate headline. A deal of this size could change buying power, … Read more
Private label has moved well beyond the cheap aisle label, and GS Retail is treating that shift as a strategic reset. In my view, the real story is not that prices still matter, but that price alone no longer protects a private label range from being ignored. For FMCG teams, that matters because the battleground … Read more
Retail spending is starting to crack under the weight of higher costs, and the pressure is showing up where FMCG teams feel it first: discretionary baskets, transport spend and retailer confidence. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data points to a market where price rises are still biting, but households are now pulling back as … Read more
While Blinkit and Zepto were burning through hundreds of crores in venture capital to deliver groceries in 10 minutes, a business model born in a British mill town in 1844 was quietly outpacing both of them in the Indian heartland. Nobody in a Mumbai boardroom saw it coming — but the numbers in 2026 are … Read more
When I walked into a Sahakari Bhandar outlet in Dadar, Mumbai, last year, the prices on staples like tur dal and sunflower oil were noticeably lower than what I had paid the previous afternoon at a nearby Reliance Smart store. That was not a coincidence. It was the result of a model that has been … Read more
The legislative fix for retail worker abuse in Western Australia has already cleared one chamber of parliament — what’s missing now is urgency from the other. Every week the upper house stalls, the same repeat offenders keep walking back through the same doors. The Australian Retail Council (ARC) is calling on the WA Government to … Read more
Small and mid-sized retailers inside Sharjah’s shopping malls may soon operate under a very different set of conditions — flexible leases, climate-resilient infrastructure, and wellness-aligned tenant strategies that look nothing like traditional mall management. The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry convened an expanded meeting with the Shopping Malls Sector Business Group to review how … Read more