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Marissa Munro

Marissa Munro

Chief Product Development & Product Direction Officer at Woolworths with 25+ years in food retail and product innovation

Jun 10, 2026

35:03
Oh, sure.
35:03
Um, and I'm saying that from a perspective of having traveled, like many of you have, and really coming back to this country every single time and appreciating what we do at, in the food scene.
35:13
Yeah, and then oftentimes the restaurateurs who you compliment will say, "Oh, but we've got it easy in this country.
35:18
You know, we've got all of this beautiful wine, and we've got access to such beautiful produce." Um, but I think every restauranteur wakes up in the morning, or chef wakes up in the morning and have their own vision and mission and dream-
37:00
Very nice.
37:01
I spoke earlier about the fact that we believe our customers should have choice, right?[clears throat] Now, I was the trading head in the business when we made that bold decision to move sweeties outside of our cleaning system.
37:13
And the reason for that is i- because in that very moment, we didn't give customers the choice.
37:17
You know, you kind of like force down a queue, you can't turn left or right, kids were having tantrums, and there was just a plethora of sweet, um, su- sugary items around them.

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