All The Grocer articles in 12 October 2024 – Page 2
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Greggs Foundation launches its 1,000th Breakfast Club in milestone year
The programme provides a free breakfast for thousands of children every day
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Morrisons launches white eggs to ‘give back’ to farmers
The range is part of its wider ‘For Farmers’ initiative, in which 6p is given back to farmers per half dozen box of eggs
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Comment & Opinion
The Farm Shop Guide: colourful compendium offers farm-to-fork roadmap
There is something quintessentially British about foraging for food in the proverbial back yard
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Grocer 33
Sainsbury’s Fosse Park, Leicester: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘We’re half a mile off the M1, so we attract a good mix of locals and people from afar’
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Grocer 33
Sainsbury’s Leicester lives up to ‘superstore’ moniker
The store was well-stocked, with only an out-of-stock on the grapefruit preventing our shopper from taking home a full basket
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Grocer 33
Aldi pips Lidl as cheapest in Super 33 price comparison survey
Lidl may have had the more impressive Kantar figures this week, but it was rival Aldi that won the battle of the discounters
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WWF urges food systems transformation as it unveils ‘shocking’ habitat destruction levels
The World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Report revealed food production was one of the main drivers behind a staggering loss of species
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Health & Her adds andropause supplements for men over 40
Health & Him is designed to tackle andropause, the decline in testosterone levels men experience as they age
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Soft drinks challengers Nix & Kix and Square Root find rescue deals
Soft drink challengers Nix & Kix and Square Root Soda have secured rescue deals to ensure the survival of the brands after being hit by challenging headwinds in the category
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Tesco to serve self-scan shoppers with ads based on their location within a store
Tesco Media & Insight Platform launched ads on the self-scanning devices last year, claiming to be the first retailer globally to do so
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‘Nano influencer’ food distribution company adds frozen ops, eyes international expansion
Gifta operates from two specialist warehouses across the UK, with its fulfilment teams managing ambient, chilled, and now frozen products
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CJ Lang rolls out AI solution to replace sales-based system
The rollout is the ‘largest tech investment’ the company has made to date
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Greencore investors show continued appetite for shares
Shares in Greencore shot up 10% this week as another profits upgrade led to analysts in the City raising their target prices for the stock
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Unilever to extend use of on-pack accessible QR codes for partially sighted shoppers
The fmcg giant began deploying AQRs on pack with its Persil and Colman’s brands in the UK in late 2023
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Aldi ramping up rollout of in-store bakeries
Aldi stores in the south-east and east of England have been gaining bakeries in recent weeks
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EPR: hunt for thousands of ‘freeriders’ trying to piggyback on fees
The announcement of the hunt comes with the deadline for the second set of data for EPR having passed last week
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Aldi enhances Arla supply deal with £30m for climate and animal welfare projects
The agreement will see Aldi partner in Arla farming projects and innovation that aims to accelerate more sustainable farming practices
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Waitrose expands on-demand delivery offer with Just Eat
The multi-year deal adds to Waitrose’s existing rapid delivery tieups
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Unilever finally completes exit from Russia
Unilever had previously resisted calls to exit Russia
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Freshways continues bounceback with 435% leap in profits
Sales also climbed, by 3% to £359m, according to the supplier’s 2023 accounts