Latest supermarket news – Page 136
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Asda offering 10% Christmas discount to NHS and emergency service workers
The supermarket will take 10% off shopping bills over the Christmas period for holders of a ‘Blue Light Card’
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Tesco facing Christmas shortages over strike action, warns union
Over 1,000 warehouse workers and HGV drivers have voted to strike over a 4% pay rise offer
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Campaign group aims to ‘inundate’ supermarket bosses with demands for Boxing Day closures
Organise – a campaigning network of over a million people across the UK – is urging its members to directly email CEOs with a standard message
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Sainsbury’s to postpone all staff Christmas parties amid Omicron fears
Sainsbury’s decision to postpone the Christmas gatherings came following internal discussions with the store employee representative group
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M&S sees 100k app downloads after launching Sparks Advent calendar
The calendar features prizes such as a meet and greet with Gary Barlow
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Asda trials GoodMaps wayfinding app at Stevenage store
The app can pinpoint a user’s location to within a metre and communicates directions to an object or area via audio, enlarged visual, and touch commands
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Kellogg’s trials paper-based liners in packs of Corn Flakes
The cereal giant will roll out packs with a new paper liner into a “small number” of Tesco stores in January
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M&S trialling augmented reality wayfinding app at Westfield Food Hall
If staff trials are successful, the app will be made available for public use in January
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Sainsbury’s aims to raise £3m to tackle food poverty this Christmas
Sainsbury’s is matching every single donation up to £1.5m, with the aim of raising a total of over £3m
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Supermarket vegetable initiative records major spike in sales
The Peas Please initiative involves retailers including Aldi, Co-op, Lidl, Sainsbury’s and Tesco
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Morrisons to switch to insect-based feed as it gears up to launch carbon neutral eggs
The retailer has teamed up with agritech business Better Origin to reduce its dependence on soya-based feed
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City Snapshot: Food prices soar in November and set to get worse over Christmas - BRC
Shoppers are likely to pay more for their Christmas dinner this year as food prices rocketed to their highest levels in more than a year.
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Tesco plans new range simplification in Clubcard revamp
CEO Ken Murphy pledging to work “hand in glove” with Dunnhumby on the proces
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Waitrose to sell food in Scottish convenience chain Margiotta
The retailer will sell around 600 products across Margiotta’s 10 stores
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Supermarket pesticides are threat to worker health, says new report
Around 385 million agricultural workers are poisoned around the world each year as a result of pesticide exposure
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Asda charters cargo ship to shore up Christmas supply
Asda has chartered its own cargo ship to protect the availability of key festive products including decorations, toys, clothing and gifts
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Eco-cleaning brand Neat lands at Tesco
The listing exemplified Tesco’s desire to ‘encourage shoppers to make sustainable swaps’, said Neat
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Plant-based products blasted for ‘unnecessarily high’ levels of salt
Campaign group Action on Salt has called for manufacturers and government to act
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Milk prices increase by up to 18% as farmgate hikes and other costs hit home
Inflation is being seen across both own label and branded milks, according to research by The Grocer
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Good Catch unveils frozen trio of seafood alternative SKUs
Classic Style Fish-Free Burgers, New England-Style Crab-Free Cakes and Thai-Style Fish-Free Cakes have debuted in Tesco