All Discounters articles – Page 4
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Category ReportThe great escape: eggs category report 2025
UK retailers and suppliers are freeing their hens and switching to cage-free eggs. Why are some against this move?
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NewsLidl taking on rival discounter Home Bargains in price comparisons
Lidl has also been pitting its non-food middle aisle prices against Asda, John Lewis, Homebase, Currys, Robert Dyas, Ikea and online retailer Wayfair
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NewsAldi planning to create more than 1,600 store jobs in 2025
The discounter – which now has more than 1,050 stores, up by about 10 since December – said the jobs would result from a previously announced plan to invest £650m in further expansion in 2025
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NewsPromotions boost supermarket sales in January
Supermarkets kept shoppers spending after Christmas by offering a raft of promotions as take-home sales rose by 4.3% in January
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NewsLidl recalls chocolate Alpenfest Salted Mini Pretzels over ‘burning sensation’ fears
The Food Standards Agency is advising anyone to have bought the products not to consume them
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NewsPoundland MD Austin Cooke departs
Cooke’s departure follows former Poundland MD Barry Williams’ return to the board of the struggling retailer on an interim basis
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Comment & OpinionSupermarket imitations of brands are rife. Here’s why
Grocery retailers are always looking for new products and very rarely will come up with a brand new idea, says Ged Futter, director of The Retail Mind
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NewsAldi rolls out InPost parcel collection lockers to 260 stores
Aldi said it followed positive feedback from customers on how convenient the service is
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NewsLidl to ask shoppers for ‘micro-donations’ to the NSPCC at tills
Customers will be invited to make a donation of up to 30p with card transactions
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Comment & OpinionEx-Lidl CEO: Thatchers vs Aldi ruling is a wake-up call for brands
Aldi and its peers will continue to push the boundaries, and fmcg brands need to be ready, says Ronny Gottschlich, former CEO of Lidl UK and founder of Heunadel Retail Advisory
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NewsSavers to open 30 new stores this year
It follows a year of successful trading, according to the retailer
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Comment & OpinionHow did Aldi end up charging shoppers £10 to enter a store?
The ‘pre-authorisation’ fee at Aldi’s Shop & Go store in Greenwich has turned ‘just walk out’ into ‘just walk out at least £10 worse off’
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NewsAldi taking £10 ‘pre-payment’ from shoppers to enter its checkout-free store
Shoppers who don’t leave with £10 worth of shopping could have to wait several days or longer for a refund
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NewsAsda ends its Aldi and Lidl price match scheme
Asda has ended its Aldi and Lidl price match scheme, as it plans to launch a major new Rollback campaign of price cuts
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Analysis & FeaturesPoundland: what’s gone wrong and what can it do to fix it?
Distracted by an expansion opportunity, management ‘took their eye off the ball’ as a crisis was developing in the customer offer
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NewsAldi donates 1.1 million-plus meals over Christmas
The discounter worked with redistribution partner Neighbourly to donate fresh and chilled food from stores after closing early on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
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NewsBarry Williams returns to Poundland to address crisis
It is understood Williams has returned in a supervisory role on an interim basis to run a comprehensive assessment of Poundland
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NewsAldi adds 0% ready-to-drink cans as low & no sales soar
The pair have joined a growing low & no lineup at the discounter
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Range PreviewWhat’s new in Lidl’s Vemondo plant-based range
The range includes everything from meat free peppered ham to vegan grated cheese - all designed to make plant-based eating more accessible to every shopper
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NewsLidl claims a UK supermarket first with fibre food sales target
It aims to increase the tonnage of fibre it sells by 20% by 2026