All articles by Maria Gonçalves – Page 24
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Grocer 33
Tesco Allerton Road, Liverpool: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘The pace and intensity of the shop can be difficult to keep up with sometimes, particularly when you have spikes in weather’
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Marks & Spencer CFO Eoin Tonge to become ABF finance director
He will succeed John Bason, who will be retiring as ABF’s finance director after more than 20 years at the company
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Major supermarkets back UK government’s cost of living campaign
Some deals are a continuation of existing campaigns by retailers, which the government wants to promote under the Help for Households campaign
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M&S buys its logistics provider Gist to accelerate supply chain transformation
M&S had launched Project Vangarde, a supply chain optimisation programme, in 2020 in order to increase efficiency across its expanding Food business
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Booths offering buy three get four promotion on fruit & veg
The offer, which lets customers mix and match different items, will run throughout summer until 30 August
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NHS: childhood obesity levels down since last year but still higher than pre-pandemic
According to the government’s National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) for England, obesity prevalence in reception-aged children has dropped from 14.4% in 2020/21 to 10.4% in 2021/22
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Sainsbury’s to launch £1m incubator programme for black entrepreneurs
Sainsbury’s will pick nine successful applicants to receive a welcome grant of £20,000 each
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Retail sector must ‘double down’ on diversity & inclusion, BRC says
The BRC’s latest ‘Tracking Progress on Diversity and Inclusion in UK Retail’ report showed that the sector “still has a long way to go”
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Sainsbury’s brings back Great Fruit & Veg Challenge
Customers who pick up the fruit & veg featured in the initiative can earn up to an additional 750 bonus Nectar points
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Planet Organic to open first store outside London
The specialist organic retailer will open a new location in Henley-on-Thames in the autumn
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Waitrose to supply food range to Dobbies Garden Centres
Dobbies customers will be able to buy products from the grocer’s Essential Waitrose range as well as its premium ranges Waitrose No.1 and Waitrose Duchy Organic
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M&S Food to lock value range prices through summer
The retailer is committing to keeping prices locked for an array of everyday essential food items, such as beef mince, spaghetti and bread
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M&S ditches best before dates on fruit & veg
The retailer is removing best before dates from the labels of over 300 fresh produce items and replacing them with a code system
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The Big Interview
Oja’s Mariam Jimoh on the multicultural gap in grocery
Mariam Jimoh founded Oja in 2018 after growing tired of the lack of Nigerian food in British supermarkets. The delivery platform’s rapid rise since suggests she’s far from alone
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Sainsbury’s Food e-commerce director on cost of living, shopper behaviour and electric vans
‘The pandemic accelerated the speed of change in shopping habits, particularly the shift to online’
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Amazon is cheapest but falls short on customer service in our Online 33 mystery shop
Sainsbury’s beats all grocers in Online 33 while Amazon comes joint last with Morrisons
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Waitrose Gerrards Cross: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘If you’ve got happy Partners and a good-looking shop with great availability, you’re going to have happy customers’
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Waitrose takes the lead with solid availability and hardworking staff
Despite Waitrose Gerrards Cross being a small branch, it earned the best availability score this week
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Sainsbury’s shareholders reject Living Wage resolution
More than 100,000 people signed a petition requesting Sainsbury’s become a Living Wage accredited employer
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Food industry saved 250 million meals from going to waste in 2021
From 2020 to 2021, the increase of 14,500 tonnes was equal to food worth over £45m, or enough to provide 34 million meals