Latest supermarket news – Page 176
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Paws acquires Ocado’s DTC pet business Fetch
Direct-to-consumer pet supplies company Paws has acquired Ocado’s online petfood store Fetch.
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City Snapshot: Sainsbury’s raises profits guidance after festive growth of 9.3%
Sainsbury’s has posted Christmas like-for-like sales growth of 9.3% after releasing its festive trading update early due to it raising its profits guidance.
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Food and drink workforce crisis looms as Covid absence rates treble
Some areas of the country, including London and the south east, are aleady seeing levels above 20%
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Asda warns against panic buying as it expands online deliveries
Asda CEO Roger Burnley said it was “doing all it could” to keep stores well stocked but urged customers to “do their bit”
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Online drives Christmas grocery sales surge
Supermarket sales grew 8.4% over the festive period with almost £12bn spent at the grocers as online shopping surged during Christmas, according to Nielsen.
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Henderson Group plugging gaps in Sainsbury’s Northern Ireland store supply
The Belfast-based wholesaler is supplying about 300 products to Sainsbury’s, which operates 13 stores in Northern Ireland
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Morrisons to use car parks for Covid vaccination programme
CEO David Potts said today portable buildings would be operating from three store car parks from 11 January, with another 47 on standby
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Grocery websites fail as supermarket bosses urge against panic buying
Aldi CEO Giles Hurley wrote to customers late last night urging them not to buy more than usual, while supermarket websites struggled under weight of demand
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Union calls for retail staff to be prioritised for Covid vaccine
In a letter to health secretary Matt Hancock and business secretary Alok Sharma, Usdaw urged the government to intervene to protect staff
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Morrisons' Christmas sales surge 9.3%
Morrisons has reported a 9.3% growth in group like for like ex-fuel sales over the festive period as rising sales have mitigated the extra costs from the coronavirus tiering rules
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Aldi extends immediate payment terms for small suppliers until the end of 2021
It means suppliers whose turnover with the discounter is under £1m will continue to have payments processed as soon as invoices are submitted
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Knighthood for Dave Lewis as New Year’s Honours List recognises food industry’s work in the pandemic
Lewis is one of a number of supermarket figures to be recognised in the New Year’s Honours List
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Asda trials vegan butcher concept at Watford store
The retailer has also unveiled a 22-strong line-up of plant-based products which will be available from 5 January
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Tesco confirms billion-piece plastic reduction target hit in 2020
Packaging removed during the year included plastic shrink wrap in branded and own-label tinned multipacks
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The biggest retail tech advances of 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has demanded solutions to new problems, and ones that can be applied swiftly
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Tesco looks to head off panic buying as it extends product restrictions
Tesco brought back a raft of restrictions in September and yesterday announced the list of products had been expanded
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Food leaders demand compensation from ‘bungling’ government over Dover chaos
‘You didn’t have to be Mystic Meg to know what was coming,’ FDF CEO Ian Wright tells BEIS committee
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24 hours to prevent food shortages, warn supermarket leaders
Ministers have been told empty lorries stuck in the UK would mean products such as fresh fuit and salad vegetables would soon begin to disappear from shelves
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M&S launches instant payments to reduce Christmas queues
Pay With Me allows M&S colleagues to choose customers waiting in line to instantly process their transactions via a handheld device
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Waitrose hires Leon commercial boss Charlotte di Cello as trading director
Charlotte di Cello will take over from Rupert Thomas next month