Opinion: Global competitors put the heat on locals in grocery

2016 to herald more pain for Coles, Woolworths and Metcash as Aldi and Costco roll out new stores and increasingly garner market share. It wasn’t Christmas pudding that has given Coles, Woolworths and Metcash supermarket executives indigestion in recent weeks, but two significant developments involving global competitors that are carving significant inroads into food and grocery sales. In December, Costco revealed it generated $1.3 billion in sales for the year to August 31, 2015 and ominously

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