All articles by Michelle Perrett – Page 14
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NewsHealth food wholesaler Tree of Life's sales soar 14%
Health food wholesaler Tree of Life has posted sales up 14% to £45m
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NewsConvenience shopping then and now: key stats from the Co-op report
The Co-operative Group has published a retrospective on convenience retailing over the past 50 years
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NewsNational Living Wage could cost c-stores £166m and put 80,000 jobs at risk
Convenience retailers stand to lose £166m as a result of George Osborne’s new National Living Wage, with 80,000 jobs potentially at risk, new research has claimed.
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NewsJonathan Stowe to take charge of Nisa operations division
Stowe has been promoted from distribution director to a new wider operations director role combining IT, member services and logistics
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Grocer 33Simon Spooner, Waitrose Bridport: Grocer 33 store of the week
”We are focused on shop floor standards and ensuring availability to customers”
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NewsFoodMaestro app promises to help consumers detect food allergens
Allergy suffers can simply scan the barcode on the packaging with their smartphone and FoodMaestro detects if it contains ingredients they are allergic to
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NewsLoyalty in question as 40% of families switch supermarkets
Price and loyalty still important to shoppers as they look for best deal, four in 10 with young children switch
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NewsSainsbury's wins Bristol Rovers court case
The supermarket had agreed to purchase Rovers’ stadium in 2011 and lease it to the football club while its new stadium was built, but pulled out
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Grocer 33Sainsbury's notches first service G33 win of the year
Given this was an early Saturday morning shop, availability was surprisingly poor among the top five supermarket chains
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NewsGreencore to roll out new IT systems
Greencore is to automate its accounts-payable processes to manage 360,000 invoices a year…
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Grocer 33Yasmin Redman, Sainsbury's Clapham: G33 store of the week
Yasmin Redman, store manager at Sainsbury’s Clapham High Street, on rivals, free-from and management…
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NewsNick Crofts elected president of The Co-operative Group’s Members’ Council
Two vice-presidents, Marc Bicknell and Dan Crowe, were also appointed following a council meeting where an additional 12 members were appointed to its Senate
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NewsCo-op apologises as customers get charged twice
Hundreds of thousands of customers who used debit or credit cards at the 2,700 Co-Operative stores on Tuesday, 7 July, have been charged twice due to an error
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NewsBRC launches new brand identity and logo
The organisation said it was important to refresh its brand so that it can continue to stand at the forefront of the dynamic retail industry
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NewsIGD ECR mentoring grows to help 66 rising stars
The IGD Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) mentoring initiative is set to double in size again for 2015
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NewsBudgens, Londis have high hopes of Booker
Booker created a convenience retail powerhouse when it swooped on Budgens and Londis in a £40m deal last month
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NewsGillett's completes £250k re-fit of its first ever Spar store
Gillett’s Callington, which operates more than 60 Spar stores across the south west, has re-opened its flagship convenience store in Callington, Cornwall after a £250k redevelopment project.
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NewsSubway growth sees cookie production extended to Europe for first time
A growth in demand for the Subway brand has seen production of its cookies move outside the United States for the first time to Europe.
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NewsGrocery market to top £200bn by 2020 says IGD
The UK food and grocery market will grow by 13% between now and 2020 to £200.6bn, according to the latest forecast by IGD
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Grocer 33Sainsbury's Salford wins G33 service & availability battle
Availability issues continue to plague the major multiples and this shop – on a Sunday lunchtime – was no exception