All Convenience articles – Page 81
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Analysis and FeaturesCan Tesco reimagine Metro for its new convenience purpose?
Job cuts and store overhauls are due for Tesco’s 153 Metro stores
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NewsCo-op to install chilled food vending machine at Reading Festival
Products include sandwiches, crisps, healthy snacks, fruit, chocolate and drinks
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NewsUK convenience set to grow £6.9bn by 2024, IGD forecasts
The forecast assumes an orderly Brexit as well as a moderate growth scenario
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NewsThirty Spar members selected for retailer wine club
Opportunities to attend all-expenses paid, incentive-driven trips to vineyards around the world will also be available
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NewsNisa to launch ‘Meal for Tonight’ promotions
Themed PoS kits have been made available to retailers to help create in-store theatre
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Comment and OpinionFood to go: brands can help fight perceptions of the ‘sad’ shop sarnie
Retailers and brands can collaborate to develop interesting, quality food-to-go ranges, says Wayne Greensmith of Adelie Foods
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NewsBest-one to offer rebate scheme to encourage core products purchases
Retailers must purchase 75% of the Core Rewards range to qualify for the rebates
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NewsSean Toal to take over as WH Smith managing director
Former Co-op director Toal left his previous role at Wilko in January
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NewsMedia Bites 6 August: Tesco, M&S/Ocado, Takeaway.com/Just Eat
Usdaw said its Tesco members were ”shocked and dismayed”
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NewsTesco to cut 4,500 jobs in round of operational changes
The operational changes will mainly focus on its 153 Metro stores
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NewsThornton’s Budgens adds raft of vegan products in sustainability push
The store now sells around 800 lines which are clearly signposted as vegan
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NewsCosta Coffee rolls out mobile ordering service to 500 branches
Users are able to identify their nearest participating store and order any number of drinks from the menu
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NewsMcDonald’s opens Grab & Go takeaway-only store in Fleet Street
The Grab & Go store will have extended open hours from 6am-midnight seven days a week
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NewsSelect & Save to install Amazon lockers in stores
Select & Save said it would now be discussing the opportunity with those members
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NewsCo-op kicks off ‘biggest-ever transformation programme’
A technology overhaul that’s been three years in planning would better equip the retailer for its “ambitious growth strate”
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NewsSimplyFresh to launch pop-up food festival with Next
The collaboration comes weeks after SimplyFresh opened its first Foodhall in Manchester
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NewsAldi and Lidl pose major threat to convenience stores, report says
A survey which followed the opening of the first Aldi Local found 42% of shoppers would travel further than their local store to reach a discounter
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NewsUK food to go will grow by £5bn over five years, says IGD
The biggest rate of growth in food to go is tipped to come from convenience retailers
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NewsTrack and trace support urged as retailers and suppliers fear non-compliance
The law states that manufacturers of tobacco products must provide retailers and wholesalers with the equipment necessary
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NewsCostcutter rolls out food-to-go product guide for retailers
Details are provided of the new Co-op own-brand offering, including sandwiches, wraps and salads plus chilled snack and prepared fruits