All The Grocer articles in 27 July 2024
Previous issues.
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Comment & Opinion
Loyalty prices investigation: painstaking and pointless
The Competition & Markets Authority needs to be more accountable to the taxpayer with its Whichhunts
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Big Interviews
Kitwave CEO Ben Maxted on ‘can-do’ mentality and growth strategy
Kitwave’s boss on the wholesaler’s successful acquisitions strategy, from not buying turnarounds to the secret ingredients of being a good custodian
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Analysis & Features
How supermarkets are looking after their staff like never before
The pandemic changed the way we view work – and our health – forever. Today, supermarkets are offering better benefits, staff discounts, and pay packages than ever
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Comment & Opinion
Estrella Damm shares story of sun, beautiful people and beer
Damm is again a bit-part player in its own ad – but this time there is no big star to anchor it
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Analysis & Features
Will Labour’s worker reforms apply to the gig economy?
Labour’s ‘new deal for workers’ makes no mention of app couriers
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News
Aldi sells most free-range eggs of any UK supermarkets
The retailer overtook Tesco in the latest 12 week period, Kantar data shows
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News
CMA accused of ‘colossal waste of time’ over loyalty card probe
The CMA report looks at fuel prices and wider retailer profitability, as well as the findings from the probe it launched into loyalty cards in January
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Comment & Opinion
Cooking Buddies: Jamie Oliver’s nepo baby proves irritatingly good
There’s a special joy in seeing celebrity offspring suck. Sadly, Buddy Oliver doesn’t
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Analysis & Features
As inflation recedes, has the tide turned on discounter growth?
New figures show Aldi is now in negative growth, and variety discounters that once were riding high are also going backwards
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News
JLP wins approval to build 353 rental homes in store redevelopment
The plans were agreed yesterday by the London Borough of Bromley following 147 letters of support from local residents
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Feature Synopsis
Focus On Hot Drinks and Cold Brew: 31 August
How are health trends reshaping the coffee category?
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Grocer 33
‘Wow factor’ impresses our shopper at Tesco in Chorley
Tesco managed a rare double this week, providing a full basket to both our in-store and online mystery shoppers
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Grocer 33
More loyalty deal makes Morrisons cheapest retailer this week
This week marked Morrisons’ first loyalty pricing deal in the Grocer 33
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Grocer 33
Tesco Extra, Chorley: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘We’re very much a destination shop within town – we are the shop that can pretty much offer anything’
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Grocer 33
Morrisons’ Joseph Sutton on price-matching and Market Street online
‘Our price match campaign is helping to bring our quality and value into even sharper focus for our customers’
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Grocer 33
Morrisons delivery driver seals Online 33 win
There was precious little to chose between five of our seven online Grocer 33 orders this week
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News
City snapshot: Drivers still paying too much at the pumps as high fuel prices cost motorist £1.6bn in 2023 - CMA
Fuel margins at supermarkets are double what they were in 2019, according to the competition watchdog
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News
Media Bites 26 July: Unilever, John Lewis, THG, BAT
Unilever’s first-half results get plenty of pick up in today’s papers
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News
Oatly upgrades growth forecasts as it makes ‘solid progress’
Revenues in the second quarter nudged up 3.2% to $202.2m, with “solid” volume growth in each of its divisions
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Comment & Opinion
Why supermarkets must scale up refillables at ‘frightening’ speed
Somebody had better tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves not to read the latest report by Wrap on the industry’s war on plastic