Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 140
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Analysis & Features
Co-op Group proposals for corporate governance reform explained
Co-op Group wants members to have a greater say in how it is run…
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Analysis & Features
Food to go doesn't have to mean soggy pastry
There’s plenty of competition, but convenience stores are still managing to turn heads with fancy food-to-go offers…
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Comment & Opinion
Introducing 'the world’s first free supermarket'
Imagine a supermarket where absolutely everything was given away for free. Implausible? Maybe, but there’s one called Freemarket opening in Copenhagen this Saturday.
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Comment & Opinion
99p Stores thinks big in Northampton
99p Stores’ Abington Street branch is the first of a brand new concept for the chain. What’s it like?
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Analysis & Features
The supermarket ‘perfect storm’ shows few signs of blowing over
The UK may have weathered the tail-end of hurricane Bertha just about intact, but the fierce storm blowing through the grocery sector is far from petering out.
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Comment & Opinion
Aldi and Lidl are far from the plucky underdogs of UK grocery
How big can the discounters get in the UK? That is the £175bn question we are tackling this week…
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Comment & Opinion
Discounters: a fashion that is here to stay?
“The fashion of this world passeth away.” Seldom has this been shown more clearly than in today’s grocery market…
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Comment & Opinion
Online is the new reality – like it or not
Ofcom’s annual report on the UK’s media consumption and habits is a must-read for all the major grocers.
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Analysis & Features
Waitrose: finally falling victim to a bruising market?
Last week’s surprise warning about profits and a recent run of poor trading have raised questions. So what’s going on?…
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Analysis & Features
Supermarket inflation falls to lowest recorded this year
Inflation across the big four supermarkets has fallen again to reach a new annual low…
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Analysis & Features
Aldi and Lidl: how big could the discounters get?
The rapid rise of Aldi and Lidl is changing the shape of the grocery landscape. How big will they get?…
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Comment & Opinion
Click & collect on the road to domination
The age of click & collect is well and truly upon us, and it seems almost every week there’s a new development.
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Analysis & Features
Supermarket sales woes extend to entertainment
Last year there were big market share gains for the supermarkets in the entertainment products sector – now they are losing out to Game and Argos.
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Comment & Opinion
Dispatches hunts for a theme in Supermarket Wars
New Tesco boss Dave Lewis could have done worse than catch Supermarket Wars…
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Analysis & Features
Is the tide turning against Waitrose?
Despite stellar recent growth, Waitrose is not immune to the wider industry problems and price deflation.
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Analysis & Features
Asda builds its presence in South with new approvals
…but the chain is still keen on growing in its Northern heartland…
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Analysis & Features
Online confectionery sales smash the £100m barrier
Online confectionery sales have passed the £100m mark for the first time, The Grocer can reveal.
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Analysis & Features
Confectionery brands on social media: size isn’t everything
Size is important when it comes to a social media following. But it’s not everything.
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Comment & Opinion
Dave Lewis faces a huge challenge as he succeeds Philip Clarke
The beleaguered Tesco CEO always seemed to be pictured wearing the resigned expression of Oliver Hardy…
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Analysis & Features
Tesco: did slow progress on store refresh plan cost Clarke his job?
As a report claims Tesco CEO “had to go” because his store turnaround under-delivered, The Grocer looks at how the wheels came off.