AEON ADVANCES TOWARDS OMNI-CHANNEL STRATEGY

AEON CO. (M) BHD. and honestbee have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a business alliance. This alliance will enable both parties to develop and formulate new services that better match the rapidly changing customer demand, by establishing a framework of cooperation to merge their unique strengths. The collaboration stems from the growing trend of online purchase pattern and a desire to innovate its offering to enhance value for Malaysians.

Mr Shinobu Washizawa, Managing Director of AEON CO. (M) BHD commenting on AEON’s future plans for its e-commerce segment which will include similar innovations in the pipeline.

Shinobu Washizawa, Managing Director of AEON CO. (M) BHD. said: “Owing to decades of support from our customers, we have established a nationwide presence. We believe our strength lies not only in the wide-range of products and services, but also in the customers’ trust in our reputable brand. In order to enhance the value for our customers by moving towards an omni-channel retailer, we want to combine our strengths with honestbee’s expertise to digitalise our customer’s shopping experience.

Mr Shinobu Washizawa, Managing Director of AEON CO. (M) BHD (third from left) and Ms Marianne Chuo, Country General Manager of honestbee Malaysia (second from right) exchanging handshakes after the official signing of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) witnessed by Mr Hiroyuki Kotera, Executive Director of AEON CO. (M) BHD. (first from left), Mr Poh Ying Loo, Executive Director of AEON CO. (M) BHD (second from left) and Mr Kunimasa Nakamura, Deputy General Manager, honestbee Japan (first from right).

Adding Value to An Established Grocer
Honestbee is an online concierge and delivery service with presence in eight countries. According to Marianne Chuo, Country General Manager of honestbee Malaysia, the way Malaysians consume shopping today differ greatly from how it was a decade ago. “One of the key drivers for the success of the online retail sector is convenience. As a trusted online concierge, we are always evolving with time to offer our customers a whole new level of committed reliability. We curate our logistics in a way in the most efficient and effective way when delivering products, ranging from fresh produce to dry goods. We look forward to a successful collaboration with AEON CO. (M) BHD.”


As the pilot project of this alliance, AEON Mid Valley store will initiate honestbee’s personal shopper service. Customer who live within 17 km radius from the store will enjoy a minimum 1-hour delivery service for the purchase of listed grocery products (subject to availability of the timeslot).


Washizawa added: “We are proud to launch this new service at our flagship store, AEON Mid Valley. We will closely monitor the feedback and demands from our customers, and consider to expand this service both in terms of regional and in merchandise offering. I am delighted to share that AEON CO. (M) BHD. will have more of such innovations in the pipeline.”

(L – R) Honestbee mascot, Mr Hiroyuki Kotera, Executive Director of AEON CO. (M) BHD., Mr Shinobu Washizawa, Managing Director of AEON CO. (M) BHD., Ms Marianne Chuo, Country General Manager of honestbee Malaysia, Mr Poh Ying Loo, Executive Director of AEON CO. (M) BHD. and Mr Kunimasa Nakamura, Deputy General Manager, honestbee Japan posing with some of the products which can be purchased from AEON MidValley through honestbee’s online platform.

“At honestbee, our expertise lies in ensuring that our customers receive their purchases almost as soon as they have put in their order. As such, we are extremely proud to be appointed as AEON CO. (M) BHD.’s partner in their endeavour to venture into on-demand delivery service,” Chuo added.

As an introductory offer, every new customer will get to enjoy a RM50 discount with a minimum spend of RM120. To enjoy this benefit, new customers need to key in the promotional code of “AEON50HB” to redeem any time before 1 March 2018. This is good news for busy mom like me, as I am always on the go to fetch children. I shall let my friends to know about this too.

Just want to share about shopping, first we choose the dry food, then only we only choose the frozen food. Just like our usual shopping for groceries, before heading to cashier, we'll pick up the frozen products last to go cashier for payment. Is this the way, you always shopping for groceries? 

Blogger Groceries Hunt for "Taste New Zealand" at Cold Storage

Halloween decoration at Cold Storage, IPC

October month is one of my favourite month because it's one month closer to November my birthday and school holiday. October is also Halloween month, every year never fail I would purchase Halloween makeup and Halloween accessories from Cold Storage for my kids. 

Last Saturday morning, I participated in Blogger Groceries Hunt for "Taste New Zealand" at Cold Storage, IPC. Let's read on this post to find out more about the hunt and the products.

photo credit to Carol 

 Blogger friends that participating for this groceries hunt are Carol, Yana, Issac, Lily, Ruby, Ivy, and Nannie. We are split into two members each team, there are questions on particular products that we need to answer in order to find the correct food items of New Zealand.

This is fun as we are first to shop before all the shoppers come in. We are given time to complete the tasks. 

One of the question related to the year, and it melts in mouth. 

We are not familiar in the Cold Storage of IPC, we need to hunt down the groceries on the list on our own. If there item is correct, 2 points will be given. 1 point deduction is the answer is wrong. So we can't be greedy cannot grab just anything we want. 

For your information, for the first time the New Zealand Government's international business development agency New Zealand Trade Enterprise (NZTE) will be introducing its successful food fair, Taste New Zealand at Cold Storage supermarkets. 

 Taking clean eating to a different level, those who favour products with healthy benefits can try the Ceres Organic Range of Coconut oil, Safflower Oil, Sesame Oil and Gluten free Quinoa enriched pasta and pasta shells, and the Ceres Organic Raw Food Bars and Proteins Bars. 

 For a sudden sugar craving and if peanut butter is one's guilty pleasure, then PIC's Peanut Butter Smooth No Salt is perfect as its made with the real thing with no added sugar and totally guilt-free!

 For a quick energy fix, N&N Supergrains Muesli Bars are both delicious and guilt-free.

 There are over 200 New Zealand products from over 48 brands, some artisanal and some globally popular, all on special promotions.

Snacks of New Zealand products

 Ayu and me are a team so we were guessing as were whether the CHIA drinks  fit in one of the product New Zealand description.

It sound familiar as Jade, so you know it's JED's Coffee! 

4 correct items of the groceries hunt for Taste New Zealand products in the basket

For the indulgent like you and me, Whittaker's chocolate, born and bred in New Zealand and now taking over the chocolate world, which is a product of chocolate lovers must not miss. You can see this is one of the groceries hunt in the photo above.

New Zealand fresh produce of strawberries, avocados, apples and kiwi fruits. Kiwi is one of my favourite fruits.

photo credit to Ruby

Good blogger groceries hunt for a good start in the morning with beloved bloggers. 

Time to count and announce on team winners

Everyone is looking nervous when the points are being counted. 

Team Issac and Ivy are the Grand Prize winners of RM250 of New Zealand products.

photo credit to Nannie

2nd Prize - Ayu and me won the RM150 of New Zealand products.

Group Blogger Groceries Hunt -Photo credit to Ayu

 Taste New Zealand is available at all Cold Storage outlets across the country from 8 October until 25 October. Taste New Zealand is a Food Fair that features the best of New Zealand produce, from wines to chocolates to fruits.

Renowned for producing some of the best-tasting dairy the world has to offer, New Zealand's leading dairy brand, Fonterra, such as Anchor butter and calcium fortified milk, Anlene and Anlene Gold. New Zealand-produced Anlene is the only clinically tested hi-cal milk in Malaysia that protects bone strength in four weeks. Tatue will also feature its popular mascarpone cheese at the fair.

RM150 worth of New Zealand products

 I like my New Zealand food bag, which contain of above New Zealand food products.

My 4 years old son so happy to grab this New Zealand Kettle Korn

If you like to take part in the contest to win New Zealand products. To participate in the contest, with every RM30 or more purchased at the Fair. Five New Zealand Food Bags worth RM500 each are up for grabs. Don't just read here, if you have interest to shop and win or love to shop for New Zealand products do check out the nearest Cold Storage.

Shopping for family groceries

This morning I go out with my dear to have breakfast at SS15, Subang Jaya. The famous pork noodles shop where we have to wait at least 20 minutes for it to come. Then after he send me back, I waited around 10am to go Aeon Big to park and walk over to Subang Parade. I got my hair cut for RM18, a lady was earlier than me she started waiting at 10am. The lady that works in SS15, Subang Jaya says that she is living Ampang but come to Subang Jaya to work. It is convenient for her since she is living nearby LRT station at Ampang. After she left, then my turn to have my hair cut.

Only one staff at the salon, she was complaining that she works alone and needs to handle to salons. Another in Empire Shopping Gallery where she parked her car. Her colleague was on leave for few days to Thailand. Anyway she loves her job, she been a hairdresser for over 30 years.

So after my haircut, I have went to MBO Cinema to redeem my birthday tickets. I chosen to watch Kungfu Jungle movie. Then walk around a shop nearby Reject shop for shoes, try some shoes and nearly bought one but in my mind I was saying I have enough shoes. RM39.90 of a pair shoes I can purchase a pack of 1.9kg milk powder.

So at Aeon Big shopping for milk powder, RM39.90 for 1.9kg. Another choice was RM43.5 for 2kg. I certainly choose the 1.9kg over 2kg, I saw the same brand which selling in 99 cost RM41.xx. Anyway the family groceries cost me RM305.10. I bought six packets of milk powder, whole family is taking this milk powder even my kids. I also bought other milk dairy product for my son to bring school everyday to drink. So when I told my man, how much I spend on groceries, he was shock of the money spend. Milk powder prices as you know it would goes up and never comes down unless there's promotion.

Being mommy never easy, we need to think how much we need to spend and how much to use for family household and on personal etc. Tell me if your man do the counting for you?