Channels news – Page 207
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NewsRed Fox gains retail listing at Morrisons ahead of new marketing campaign
The 200g pre-packed product will be available in Morrisons stores nationwide from the end of May
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NewsSuperdrug enlists Jack Monroe to promote value credentials
Monroe is to promote the retailer’s Shop Smart campaign, sharing tips to ‘help customers navigate the growing cost of living crisis’
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NewsTraditional shops paying ‘eight times more’ in business rates than online retailers
For every £100 earned by shops in Britain, £2.91 is payable in business rates, while for online retailers the figure is just 34p, according to Altus Group
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NewsOcado to acquire robotics startup to accelerate CFC bot rollout
The acquisition – the terms of which have been agreed – is expected to complete by 6 June this year. The value of the deal is €10.2m
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NewsAldi giving away 10 £500 vouchers to fund Jubilee street parties
The supermarket is staging the competition on Facebook, where people are asked to tag their local community group or “a friendly neighbour” to be in with a chance of winning
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NewsCo-op invests £19m in pig pricing, and urges mults to do more on sourcing
The retailer has committed to pay its pig farmers above the cost of production, while also calling on other retailers to improve British sourcing
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NewsSainsbury’s boosts number of stores on Deliveroo
An additional 65 Sainsbury’s stores have been brought onto the platform, bringing the total to 336 across the UK
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NewsNisa offering new deals on healthy options to help ‘cash-strapped consumers’
Nisa has also recently partnered with the NHS Better Health campaign
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NewsAsda extends staff benefits and brings back Blue Light discount
Asda said it was also removing the 12-week qualifying period for colleague discount in stores and online until October
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NewsM&S hits out at Chancellor’s plans to introduce online sales tax
The letter sees M&S break ranks with other big supermarkets including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons who are supportive of the idea
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NewsBestway extends fuel levy refund to Costcutter retailers spending £7,500 a week
Bestway announced earlier this month it would reimburse the £4.88 fuel levy to retailers if they met an average weekly spend per store of £17,500
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NewsCo-op to offer ‘walking deliveries’ from 200 stores this year
The deliveries will be made to customers within a comfortable 15-minute walk from the stores
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NewsDelivery Drop expecting 75% rise in retail partners after National Convenience Show
It is eyeing a full national rollout and is currently in talks with several major wholesalers
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NewsTesco to go ahead with HFSS multibuy ban despite government u-turn
Tesco recently pledged to ensure 65% of its sales came from healthy products by 2025
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NewsIceland claims UK supermarket first with 10% discount for over-60s
Every Tuesday from 24 May, customers aged 60 and over will be able to claim a 10% discount on their shopping in Iceland and The Food Warehouse stores
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NewsWaitrose to revamp deli counter offering with array of new lines
As part of the new launch, the supermarket will be ‘modernising the look and feel’ of counters in 33 of its stores
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NewsCompanies sign up to pilot ‘game-changing’ protocols on Scope 3 GHG emissions
Wrap revealed the new protocols after months of consultation following the COP26 summit in Glasgow last year
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NewsFarmfoods holds on to pandemic-fuelled sales boom in 2021
Turnover was down 2.2% in 2021 compared with the previous year but still 32% up on a two-year basis
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NewsSteve Leach steps down as Nisa sales director
Leach said he was leaving to explore a new opportunity
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NewsReynolds to add 25 electric vehicles to fleet by 2025 in sustainability drive
The company launched its first 7.5t electric vehicle in February this year.