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NewsNeil Turton joins Alliance Stores as a non-executive director
Turton has over 35 years of experience in the wholesale and retail sector and has worked in a number of senior roles
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NewsNorfolk Showground set to become home to £2.3m ‘super farm shop’
Development will include café, butcher, delicatessen, outdoor seating area and two-acre market garden
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NewsOnline surplus stock supermarket Motatos to launch in UK next month
The company was founded in 2014 in Sweden – where it is known as Matsmart – and later expanded into Denmark and Finland
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NewsMeal planning and shopping platform Lollipop secures £5m in seed round
The latest fundraise, led by Octopus Ventures, follows a pre-seed round carried out in December 2020
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NewsTesco chairman calls for windfall tax on energy firms to help cost of living crisis
Allan told the BBC Today programme Tesco customers were among those whose behaviour was showing the extent of the financial hardship
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NewsInstant noodle brand Naked adds vegetarian and vegan pot trio in Asian flavours
The range was set to ‘increase the brand’s appeal with mainstream instant hot snack eaters’, it said
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NewsCo-op trials window hatch click & collect service at Brighton store
Co-op said the initiative was designed to enable time-pressed shoppers to pick up orders without having to go in store and queue
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NewsTesco online chief joins Google after ‘most intense period of my career’
Poad, MD of online at Tesco since October 2019, led the supermarket’s online teams as they tackled soaring lockdown-induced demand
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NewsMorrisons confirms McColl’s rescue package
Morrisons has confirmed it has agreed to buy convenience chain McColl’s from administration, saving all 16,000 jobs
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NewsDemand for warehouse space continues to outstrip supply, driving up rents
Some 11.3 million sq ft was taken in the first three months of the year, 11% up on the five-year average in quarter one, according to Colliers
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NewsCo-op opens largest depot yet in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
The site is set to serve more than 600 Co-op sites when it becomes fully operational later this year
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NewsRecipe box players HelloFresh and Gousto expand distribution footprints
Gousto is to launch a 295,000 sq ft fulfilment centre at St Modwen Park Burton, in Staffordshire
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NewsBestway to refund fuel levy to Costcutter retailers spending £17,500 a week
The refund is one of the benefits of Bestway’s new Platinum Club membership
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NewsPlans to force landlords to let vacant shops dismissed as ‘gimmick’
Landlords will be forced to rent shops out to the highest bidder if they have been vacant for over a year
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NewsOne Stop strikes delivery deal with Uber Eats for 500 stores
More than 100 stores have gone live on the Uber Eats app over the last month
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NewsTesco and WWF launch accelerator programme to fast-track sustainability
Tesco has announced the names of eight companies that will go head to head to find the best ideas
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NewsMorrisons set to win McColl’s rescue battle
Morrisons has reportedly seen off EG Group to secure a rescue package for stricken convenience chain McColl’s
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NewsBooker retailers prevent 300,000 meals going to waste via Too Good To Go scheme
Booker said the initiative had prevented over 135,000kg of food from going to waste
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NewsCity Snapshot: Morrisons and EG Group improve bids in fight for McColl’s
Morrisons and EG Group are reportedly locked in a two-way fight to rescue convenience chain McColl’s after both made a last-ditch improvement to their bids
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NewsNPA calls out Tesco over lack of support for pig producers
The trade body has written an open letter to Tesco CEO Ken Murphy in a bid to attract financial support for hard-up producers