All analysis & features articles – Page 72
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Analysis & FeaturesHow equal is grocery? The gender pay gap at the supermarkets
When UK businesses published their first mandatory reports on the gender pay gap in 2018, exclusive analysis by The Grocer revealed women were earning considerably less than men at the UK’s top supermarkets. So three years (and a global pandemic) later, what’s changed?
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Analysis & FeaturesHas Tesco’s obesity strategy set a bar for rivals and suppliers?
Rebel shareholders who called out Tesco say a precedent has been set for investor power
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Analysis & FeaturesHow can we stop Britain’s high streets becoming ghost towns?
The pandemic has accelerated the high street’s decline. Is government support the answer, or does the concept need a wholesale rethink?
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Analysis & Features'Like Sainsbury’s cooler younger brother’: inside the UK’s first Amazon Fresh store
The Grocer paid a visit to the till‐free convenience store in Ealing, west London
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Analysis & FeaturesEaster 2021: all the new chocolate launches from brands
Big confectionery brands including Cadbury and Maltesers have unveiled new products for Easter 2021. We take a look at the treats on offer
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Analysis & FeaturesIn pictures: Inside Britain’s best butcher’s shops
To celebrate National Butchers’ Week (8-14 March 2021) we’ve rounded up some of Britain’s best butcher’s shops
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Analysis & Features10 new ice cream launches landing in supermarkets for summer 2021
Unilever is getting set for the summer months with host of NPD launching across its ice cream brands
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Analysis & FeaturesThe female entrepreneurs tackling the big challenges in grocery
Here’s how female entrepreneurs are challenging the industry’s big issues through brands, inventions and initiatives
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Analysis & FeaturesHow Too Good to Go is fighting food waste on the front line
The food waste app hopes to triple the amount of meals it saves in the UK this year. So what is it doing to make that happen?
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Analysis & FeaturesThe 30 biggest wholesalers in the UK 2021: the good, the bad and the ugly
It’s been a bloody battlefield for the wholesale sector in the pandemic. What’s happened and what’s the outlook?
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Analysis & FeaturesWhy are supermarkets scrapping their dark stores?
Online demand is soaring, and in-store picking costs more per order. What’s going on?
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Analysis & FeaturesWill Biffa’s Company Shop buyout cut down on food waste?
Biffa says the deal will help create a circular economy, but there are tensions between commercial and charity redistributors
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Analysis & FeaturesBudget 2021: the industry reacts
As chancellor Rishi Sunak announces this year’s Budget, industry figures from retail, wholesale, hospitality and finance share their reactions
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Analysis & FeaturesSuperloaf: 10 facts about Modern Baker’s new ‘smart bread’
Rolling out this month, the high-tech bread supports normal immune function
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Analysis & FeaturesFive fmcg brands that have used their influence to speak up for a cause
An increasing number of food and drink brands are taking a stand on political and social issues, here are five brands that are getting stuck in to the debate
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Analysis & FeaturesCan Wrap’s new household food waste campaign work?
Wrap is hoping Nadiya Hussain will have the ‘Attenborough effect’ for food waste in homes
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Analysis & FeaturesHow GroceryAid is helping workers get through the coronavirus crisis
Demand for support from GroceryAid has rocketed since the pandemic started – just as fundraising was hit. But it’s adapted, and risen to the challenge
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat Uber’s gig economy driver ruling means for online food delivery
A group of Uber drivers have won the right to be classed as workers. What are the implications?
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat the supermarkets are doing to tackle food poverty
During the first six months of the pandemic, 1.2 million food parcels distributed were distributed to vulnerable people in the UK and over 470k of them went to children
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Analysis & FeaturesHow and why fmcg brands got political
With social media affording more space than ever before for food and drink brands to have a ‘voice’, an increasing number are speaking out on political issues. So what are the benefits – and how can it backfire?