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Media Bites 8 December: Christmas price wars, Mitchells & Butlers, GSK
Aldi, Lidl and Sainsbury’s have kicked off the annual price battle on Christmas vegetables, offering bags of sprouts, carrots, parsnips and potatoes for just 19p.
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New campaign group seeks crackdown on dark stores
The Lorax Initiative is urging the secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to legislate new rules on the placement of dark stores
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Wholey Moly closes its doors in the face of mounting pressure
Cookie start-up Wholey Moly has ceased trading after being overwhelmed by a barrage of challenges this year.
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Wales to enact single-use plastics ban from autumn 2023
The Association of Convenience Stores has welcomed the new law as a measure to reduce plastic waste, but said it was concerned over the short timescale
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L’Oréal Group partners with Sainsbury’s to offer AI-powered skincare consultations
In-store skincare consultations will be available at more than 100 stores with many getting dedicated “consultation take-over spaces”
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Adjudicator ‘intensifies’ calls on supermarkets over CPI requests
The Adjudicator is to launch a new survey into retailer behaviour in the new year, after this year’s results in June showed relationships breaking down
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New EU packaging laws set to ‘add tension’ to UK trade
The recycled content targets will incrementally rise throughout the years in a bid to make all packaging fully recyclable at scale
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Infarm halves workforce and plans to ‘downsize’ UK operations
Some 500 staff are in the process of leaving the company, which warned it is proposing to “downsize operations” in the UK, France and the Netherlands
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Golden Acre Foods brings South Asian Suhana spice mixes to Sainsbury’s
The partnership with Sainsbury’s was ‘just the start’ of Golden Acre’s strategy of importing a portfolio of famous South Asian brands into the UK, it said
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Only half of apple packs in major UK supermarkets are British, new data reveals
The data found that only one supermarket – Iceland – was selling 100% British packs in October and early November
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Lidl and Aldi go head to head with price matched Christmas dinner deals for six for £16.32
Both discounters have cut Christmas veg to 19p to hit the low price
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Rail strikes: ‘heavily disrupted’ Christmas to hit foodservice sales
One major foodservice wholesaler told The Grocer it expected to see a 10% decline in sales on strike days
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Crumbs Brewing brings in crowd cash to fight food waste
Sustainable beer maker Crumbs Brewing has hit a £150k crowdfunding target to back its growth plans and fight food waste with new product launches.
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Self-checkout supervisors overwhelmed and abused, report finds
As a result, close to two-thirds felt overwhelmed by the number of machines assigned, and said they could only cope when stores weren’t busy
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Dawn Meats to invest £90m in net zero climate commitment
The plan will cover the entire supply chain across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions and align with the UN Sustainable Development goals
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Mondelez makes low-calorie HFSS breakthrough on Cadbury favourites
Reduced sugar versions of Cadbury Crunchie, Double Decker, Fudge and Fry’s Turkish Delight could soon hit supermarket shelves
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City snapshot: Naked Wines turnaround takes shape despite fall into the red
Naked Wines has slipped to a loss in the first half but pointed to an improvement in underlying profitability as it embarks on a new strategy to turn the group’s performance around.
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Media Bites 7 Dec: Grocery market share, Asda, Farming/food shortages
The crisis engulfing Morrisons deepened as another slump in sales saw it lose ground to rivals such as Aldi and Lidl
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CapVest’s Second Nature Brands acquires Brownie Brittle
The international snacking group is looking to scale up in its domestic US market
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UK retailers claim COP27 soy deforestation roadmap is ‘inadequate’
The industry roadmap, launched during COP27 in Egypt last month, set out milestones to stop deforestation in soy supply chains by 2025