Latest discounter news – Page 51
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NewsAlan Barry replaces Ingo Fischer as Lidl GB chief development officer
Fischer has spent 17 years working for Lidl GB, including over a decade as board director
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NewsAldi invites those affected by Arcadia and Debenhams collapse to apply for jobs
The supermarket’s expansion plans are due to see 4,000 new roles created across the UK this year
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NewsOops opens larger third store as property team seeks new sites
The latest store, in St Helens, is about 10,000 sq ft, twice the size of each of the first two branches
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NewsEU trade deal ‘not frictionless and barrier-free’, says Lidl GB CEO
Christian Härtnagel said the continuing flow of goods was down to the business’s thorough preparation, rather than the deal
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NewsMedia Bites 29 Jan: Diageo, Lidl, Mondelez
A tequila boom in the US drove up sales at Diageo, helping the world’s largest distiller defy expectations of falling revenues
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NewsAldi drops vegan Valentine’s Day deal prices to match Morrisons
Aldi dropped the price of two of the plant-based menu items
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NewsLidl reports £13.6m annual loss in first separate accounts for GB business
The loss after tax came as Lidl GB invested £654m in growing the business in the year ending 29 February 2020, the newly filed full-year accounts reveal
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NewsPoundland reports sales growth boosted by new ranges and price points
The growth in the first-quarter to December came despite ’significantly reduced footfall’
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NewsSupermarkets and other food retailers to get mass Covid-19 testing
Only businesses with at least 50 staff will be eligible for the programme
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NewsPoundland introduces ‘greeter’ role to encourage mask wearing
The greeters are tasked with asking shoppers to wear a face covering and providing a free mask if they don’t have one
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NewsLidl to give store and DC staff one-off £200 bonus
The payment recognises their ‘tireless efforts to keep the nation fed and provide a safe shopping experience for customers up and down the country’, Lidl said
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NewsMorrisons undercuts Aldi with cheaper vegan Valentine’s Day dine-in deal
Morrisons’ deal will cost £15 and include a starter, main, two sides, dessert and a bottle of fizz for two
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NewsIceland at war with Greenpeace after it comes bottom of plastic reduction league table
Waitrose topped the table for a second successive year
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NewsIceland expands Uber Eats trial to more London stores
The trial is just one of the ways Iceland has dramatically expanded its online services during the pandemic
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NewsIceland MD Walker writes book promising to help other businesses be greener
Called ‘The Green Grocer: one man’s manifesto for corporate activism’, the book explores the Iceland boss’s ‘life and business lessons, and passion for sustainability and social change’
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NewsAldi falls short of 50 new stores a year in 2020
Delays to construction under Covid restrictions have forced Aldi to push some of the 2020 target into 2021
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NewsIceland renews XPO storage and distribution deal
The contract covers six Iceland warehouses in Warrington, Deeside, Enfield, Livingston and two in Swindon
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NewsAldi raises minimum hourly pay to £9.55 nationally and £11.07 in London
All Aldi’s 30,000 store assistants are to benefit from the new pay rate, which exceeds the Living Wage Foundation’s recommended ‘real living wage’
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NewsAldi swaps plastic shrink-wrap for cardboard on soft drink multipacks
The shrink-wrap has been replaced with 100% recyclable FSC-certified cardboard, saving a claimed 90 tonnes of plastic a year
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NewsMedia Bites 14 January: Brexit, Lidl, Just Eat, Unilever
The UK government is proposing to fast-track empty supermarket food lorries returning to Europe to restock, as concerns mount in Whitehall that post-Brexit port disruption threatened supermarket supply shortages.