Latest supermarket news – Page 173
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Iceland 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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Salmonella risk sees four retailers recall seafood products
Chilled and frozen products from Sainsbury’s, Asda, the Co-op and Waitrose have been affected
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Tony’s claims rival chocolate makers pressured Sainsbury’s over new range
The retailer will no longer stock the Tony’s Sweet Solution line-up, which mimics some of the leading confectionery brands
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City snapshot: Sainsbury’s and Waitrose sites bought for £65m
Supermarket Income REIT has snapped up a Sainsbury’s and a Waitrose store for £64.8m. Plus, Tesco sets general meeting date to vote on £5bn special dividend from Asia sale.
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Yo Sushi reports blow to supermarket sales as well as restaurants
Yo Sushi’s supermarket push has been hit by the pandemic in a further blow for the retailer, whose restaurant arm has undergone a CVA.
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Pollen & Grace slams M&S over ‘copycat’ salad box
Pollen & Grace’s salad box and M&S’s Buddha Bowl contain nearly all the same ingredients
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John Lewis Partnership to donate £2m to charities as extension of Christmas fundraiser
It follows the Partnership raising over £3m for the charities through its Give a Little Love campaign
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Asda to donate 7,000 laptops to children to help isolation learning
The retailer said it wanted to help children lacking the technology to take part in online lessons during lockdown
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Morrisons rolls out food waste plan with The Bread and Butter Thing
Morrisons revealed plans to redistribute surplus food to 30,000 families in need through TBBT in 2021
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City Snapshot: EG Group names former M&S CEO Lord Rose as chairman
Future Asda owner EG Group has appointed former M&S CEO and current Ocado chairman Lord Stuart Rose as non-executive chairman with immediate effect
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Morrisons ramps up production of free school meals boxes
The supermarket said it had upped capacity so it could produce “tens of thousands” of boxes each week
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Supermarket bosses complain of ‘draconian’ Covid clampdown by health inspectors
Councils have been sending in inspectors across the UK after being urged by ministers to enforce safety measures
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Retailers welcome new legal protections for shopworkers in Scotland
Scottish Parliament yesterday voted to support a bill to create a new statutory offence of assaulting, threatening or abusing a retail worker
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Covid outbreak forces Waitrose to close Cheadle Hulme branch
The store closed on Monday and will not reopen until Tuesday 26 January
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Rural rapid delivery startup launches with Cockermouth Sainsbury’s products
HyperLocal is the brainchild of software engineer Ross Walker, who launched it during the first lockdown
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Iceland 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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Supermarkets ‘at risk of discriminating against disabled people’ over face masks
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to supermarket CEOs warning they could be breaking the law
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Aldi 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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Tesco mobile payment app Pay+ tops £1bn mark
Tesco said it now had 1.2 million registered users signed up
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Sainsbury’s Northampton warehouse employees test positive for Covid-19
t follows Sainsbury’s neighbouring freezer warehouse being hit with its own outbreak last week