Latest discounter news – Page 34
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Aldi to support future Olympic and Paralympic athletes
The discounter will provide financial support for 20 young athletes as they work towards becoming an Olympian or Paralympian
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Customer service and store standards slump at supermarkets as supply chain crisis hits home
There was no change in the winners of the 2022 Grocer 33 awards for price, service and availability, but our annual review reflects significant disruption
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Legal expert rates Lidl chances in Tesco case
Lidl said to have ‘robust’ argument over yellow and blue eblem
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Sainsbury’s ramps up value campaign with more Aldi Price Match cuts
The supermarket has added its 20 highest volume lines to its Aldi Price Match campaign
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Grocer Gold Awards 2022: employer of the year
Aldi has cut barriers to hiring and promoting under-represented groups
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Grocer Gold Awards 2022: technology initiative of the year
Aldi ‘just walks out’ with the technology prize
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Lidl accuses Tesco of copying its logo to ‘ride on discounter coat-tails’
In a High Court dispute, Lidl has claimed Tesco’s Clubcard Prices logo, featuring a yellow circle on a blue background, is too similar to its own
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Discounters forecast to be fastest-growing grocery channel over next five years
The UK grocery market as a whole will grow 11.3% to £241.3bn, according to analysis by IGD
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Lidl strives to increase nutritional variety of donations as more people turn to food banks
The discounter has selected 30 long-life food lines, modelled using the NHS Eatwell Guide to a balanced diet, and signposted them as ‘Good to Give’
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Aldi teases M&S again over the return of Cuthbert the Caterpillar
Using the hashtag #Cuthback, Aldi’s social media team has been tweeting pictures of vans parked outside M&S stores bearing billboards with pictures of Cuthbert and messages such as ’Aisle be back’
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Swedish surplus online grocer Motatos launches in UK
Motatos sells ambient food and fmcg that might otherwise go to waste because of changes to packaging specification or a short remaining shelf life
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Iceland MD Richard Walker gets OBE in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Elsewhere in the honours, FDF CEO Karen Betts received an OBE for services to international trade
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Asda budget range Just Essentials hits shelves
More than 60 items, including meat products, ready meals and fruit & veg, will be in store and online by the end of this week
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Lidl opens one of its biggest ever UK stores at 27,000 sq ft
The discounter has insisted it may have a “slightly bigger” store elsewhere in the UK but has not clarified where
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Iceland signs deal to sell frozen food in China
Iceland has sold ambient food in China via JD.com since 2018 and will now add frozen ranges to the offering
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New trademark reveals Lidl is still working on ‘Lidl Go’ concept
The plans may now be more modest than the scan-as-you-shop trials the discounter inadvertently leaked news of last year
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Aldi 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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Iceland 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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Farmfoods 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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Iceland guns for Aldi’s middle aisle with ‘when it’s gone it’s gone’ range in Food Warehouse
The frozen specialist has taken aim at a hot tub and toy kitchen on sale at Aldi in an announcement of its own cheaper versions