All articles by Adam Leyland
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Comment & OpinionEven Poundland is struggling. What now for the UK high street?
It’s been a big week for the high street, with a WH Smith selloff and a ‘potential’ Poundland sale dominating the retail headlines
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Comment & OpinionWill a Grinch-like ASA steal our Christmas supermarket ads?
Blockbuster supermarket ads are as much of a fixture of Christmas as mince pies
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NewsMedia Bites 3 March: Asda, online substitutions, Unilever
Asda is in the news for all the wrong reasons again with declining sales impacting staff bonuses while shoppers are receiving poor customer service from its online deliveries
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Comment & OpinionPeckish and Scoot could be a gamechanger for rapid delivery
The Co-op’s Peckish and Booker’s Scoot are the first rapid delivery solutions to be developed by wholesalers
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Comment & OpinionGoodness Issue shows food and drink putting best foot forward
This week’s Goodness Issue offers a timely reminder of the great and noble work performed by the industry on a daily basis
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Comment & OpinionA blanket ban on junk food advertisers is a step too far
The world is watching on with interest to see how Robert F Kennedy Jr can ‘Make America Healthy Again’
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Comment & OpinionIt’s all over for Amazon Just Walk Out technology in grocery
The fact is: Just Walk Out technology is just not all that frictionless
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Comment & OpinionSelf-checkout survey offers supermarkets a reminder about ‘entitled’ thieves
It’s clear the wholesale adoption of self-checkout tills has created a new breed of shoplifter
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Comment & OpinionTrump’s vow to drill, baby, drill could have dire consequences
The agenda of Donald Trump’s new White House administration leaves you breathless and fearful
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Comment & OpinionAmazon would fight a GSCOP investigation tooth and nail
Groceries Code Adjudicator Mark White needs to take care before he goes into battle with Amazon
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Comment & OpinionIf even M&S is worried about growth, what hope is there for the stragglers?
Inflation is back on the agenda even after supermarkets worked hard to bring it down this Christmas
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NewsGrocer Gold Awards 2025 launch includes social impact award
New social impact award to recognise outstanding work of food and drink industry in improving lives and benefiting society
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Comment & OpinionShoppers have been re-evaluating red meat, but not necessarily in a good way
The Top Products Survey is always full of surprises. And this one, tracking the performance of thousands of products in a record 127 categories – has more surprises than ever
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Grocer 33Tesco cheapest for deluxe Christmas dinner at ‘just’ £195.76
The price of a luxury Christmas dinner fell by 0.1% on average to £217.80 in our second Christmas 33 price comparison survey
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Comment & OpinionTomato purée slave labour muck throwing doesn’t seem to be sticking
It’s not just the supermarkets challenging the tomato purée slave labour findings, either
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Comment & OpinionThe Grocer and its journalists are not anti-vegan or anti-plant-based foods
It’s our job to report on the plant-based category’s downs, as well as ups
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NewsMedia Bites 26 November: Gails, Asda, Pladis/budget, Tariffs, Walmart
News emerges this morning that upmarket bakery chain Gail’s is up for sale
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Comment & OpinionAllan Leighton: can Asda’s comeback kid do it again… at 71?
After a 25-year absence, Allan Leighton was met with a rapturous reception on his return to Asda. Is he the shot in the arm it needs?
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NewsAsda goes ‘back to the future – with modernity’ as Allan Leighton returns
Retail veteran Allan Leighton was previously Asda’s CEO in the late 90s
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Comment & OpinionLabour's collaboration with food industry turning to conflict
The new Labour government’s pledge to “work with food businesses” grows more unconvincing with every passing day