Latest supermarket news – Page 87
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Morrisons to scrap date labels on 200 fruit and veg lines
The changes will start to come in before Christmas and include popular festive veg items, with further changes to be brought in over the course of next year
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Nearly 40 proposed Aldi stores being held up by planning objections from rival supermarkets
As Aldi and Lidl continue to take customers from rivals in droves, both are facing planning complaints
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Veg sales initiative Peas Please set to miss target as cost of living crisis bites
Peas Please, which was launched by the Food Foundation in 2019, said progress had been slowed by the impact of the financial situation
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Hovis launches Simple White value loaf into Tesco and Booker stores
According to one senior industry insider, the loaf had been offered to Booker as a ‘price-fighting product’ following aggressive price hikes
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Ocado trialling revival of ‘delivery to the kitchen table’ option
It is understood drivers making deliveries from Ocado’s CFC in Purfleet and spoke site in Sheffield are involved in the trial
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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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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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Iceland put 81 million more pieces of own-label plastic packaging on market in 2021
The frozen food retailer made a high-profile commitment in 2018 to eliminate plastic packaging from own-label ranges by the end of 2023
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Asda planning huge recruitment drive to staff new Express stores
Asda is looking to bring the Express concept and its value-led goods to more customers in convenient neighbourhood and residential settings
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Good Guys Bakehouse makes retail debut with savoury biscuit duo in Sainsbury’s
Weighing in at just five calories per ‘melt’, they are claimed to contain 50% less fat than regular savoury biscuits
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City snapshot: Grocery price inflation dips for the first time in 21 months
Grocery price inflation saw its first small monthly dip for almost two years over the past month as higher prices continue to drive sales value growth across the sector. Plus, SSP revenues and profits bounce back, consumer spending data from BRC-KPMG and Barclaycard and all the rest of the latest news from the City
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Asda revamps refill proposition, with new promise on price
It said clear pricing was by far the top priority, with the cost-of-living crisis making customers ever more careful on spending
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Sainsbury’s undercuts Tesco and Asda in Christmas dinner wars – and its turkey is fresh
Sainsbury’s deal comes in at £23.90 for Christmas dinner for six people, working out at £3.98 a head
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Asda extends blue cheese line for Christmas as stilton demand falls
Stilton, roquefort and gorgonzola are in decline as blue cheeses like montagnolo affine, cambozola and soft British regional varieties are on the rise
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Asda serves millionth £1 meal in kids and OAPs offer
Asda also revealed 73% of the sales of the meals came from customers who were new visitors to the Asda Café, including a third who were completely new to Asda
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Sainsbury’s invests £50m to keep Christmas food prices down
The supermarket had set out a pledge earlier this year that would see it invest £500m in value by March 2023 to tackle inflation
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Supermarkets call on government to ramp up renewable energy investment
The leaders of Tesco, Morrisons, M&S and Co-op, among others, have asked PM Rishi Sunak to prioritise incentives to encourage greater investment in renewables