Yarralin engages Outback Stores

Outback Stores is looking forward to working with Yarralin, located 410km southwest of Katherine and home to 300 people.

The community is situated on the banks of the Wickham River, which floods often, impacting food security. Walangeri Ngumpinku Aboriginal Corporation reached out to Outback Stores for support to ensure there would be minimal disruption right before the next wet season arrives.

“We’ve been running the store independently since 2022 and unfortunately it’s become too difficult to manage by ourselves. Gone are the days when all you needed was a cash register and some stock to run a local store. The legislative requirements around licensing, and food safety, getting IT support for the computer programs and systems needed, and the low purchasing power of a small independent store all added significantly to our costs and the time required to manage the store.

Outback Stores Australia operate over 50+ stores across Australia. Their team are well-versed in the legislative requirements, with back-end IT support available at a moment’s notice, and purchasing power which will help keep costs down for our community, as well as visitors. We were also impressed with their training program, which will see our local staff receive formal certified training which will allow us to manage the store with more local managers.” – Walangeri Ngumpinku Aboriginal Corporation

Outback Stores’ support team are currently onboarding the store, organising orders and establishing processes, while store managers Brian and Janine are on the ground and already delivering great customer service to the community.

Yarralin is the 56th store under Outback Stores’ management.

We look forward to working with Outback Stores and seeing the prices on a core range of products come down, benefiting community.

– Walangeri Ngumpinku Aboriginal Corporation