Latest supermarket news – Page 131
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NewsBelvoir Farm adds Botanical Sodas to tap low & no trend
The drinks combined botanical syrups with sparkling spring water to create ‘the perfect replacement for alcohol’, Belvoir Farm claimed
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NewsInflation and supply chain disruption lead to wave of profit warnings in 2021
Profit warnings at retailers and food & drink suppliers accounted for a third of all warnings issued by UK listed companies in 2021 as supply chain disruption and spiralling inflation hit at the back end of the year
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NewsM&S to sell Choc on Choc matchsticks following copycat allegation
Choc on Choc claimed M&S’s Valentine’s Day-themed Perfect Match box of chocolate matchsticks was a near identical copy
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NewsWicked Kitchen to expand UK offering while also moving into Northern Europe
The vegan brand has gone on sale in Finnish grocer S Group across both Finland and Estonia
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NewsCalls for tax on salt as research shows some sliced meat saltier than the ocean
Action on Salt is calling for mandatory, comprehensive salt reduction targets to be enforced with penalties for food manufacturers
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NewsCoffee prices surging in the supermarkets as inflation takes hold
Exclusive data reveals that a mass of branded and private-label coffee products have been subject to price hikes in the mults since the new year
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NewsLidl opens 900th British store with new Liverpool site
The 900th British Lidl is one of six set to open this month, creating nearly 250 jobs between them, according to the discounter
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NewsMorrisons insiders deny CEO David Potts is preparing to step down
It follows reports the supermarket’s new owners Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) have employed headhunters to begin a search for a successor
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NewsGlebe Farm adds two new oat drinks to PureOaty range
The Cambridgeshire-based supplier has launched Barista and Creamy & Enriched NPD into Morrisons this week
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NewsSainsbury’s initiative lets shoppers donate Nectar points to charity
Each donated Nectar point will be converted into funding that goes directly to the customer’s chosen charitable organisation
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NewsGroceries Code Adjudicator reads supermarkets the riot act over inflation
The Adjudicator today published a new set of ’golden rules’ for retailers
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NewsThousands of Asda workers to be balloted on pay offer
Asda put a higher offer to workers at the end of last week
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NewsWaitrose appoints Barry Dick MW to its drinks buying team
This newly created role will focus on managing the global importation and UK packing of wines and spirits
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NewsLye Cross Farm lands Ocado listing for its 100% grass-fed cheddar
The cheese is sourced from milk supplied from a local dairy herd that roams on herb-rich pastures in the summer
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NewsAsda, Ocado driverless partner Wayve secures $200m funding
The round is a significant cash injection for the London-based startup, which had previously raised $58m since it was founded in 2017
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NewsM&S renews calls for end to all Northern Ireland border checks
The retailer’s COO Stuart Machin made the calls in a letter to Boris Johnson
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NewsRodda’s secures nationwide listing with Tesco for clotted cream
MD Nicholas Rodda described the national listing with Tesco as a “watershed moment for the brand”
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NewsTesco opens new UFCs as online expansion steps up a gear
The Grocer can reveal the latest site will be the Horwich Extra store, in Bolton
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NewsOcado pushes affordability with new ‘Everyday Savers’ ad campaign
Retailer said the campaign “shows how Ocado can deliver customers a table full of everything they need, and for less than they’d expect”.
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NewsLord Sainsbury of Preston Candover: reaction to death of supermarket industry giant at 94
As chairman and CEO from 1969-1992, his flotation of the family business on the stock market in 1972 was, at the time, the largest in UK history