more discounter news & analysis – Page 53
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City snapshot: Lidl claims crown as the UK’s fastest growing bricks and mortar retailer over Christmas
Lidl GB posted annual sales growth of 2.6% over the Christmas period, claiming its festive performance places it as the country’s fastest growing bricks and mortar retailer for the second year running
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City Snapshot: Aldi vows to keep prices low after record-breaking Christmas
Aldi has stepped up a price war against its supermarket rivals with a commitment to offering customers the lowest prices in 2022 after reporting its best-ever Christmas.
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Positive signs for festive retail as Greggs and B&M hike profits expectations
There were positive signs for the retail sector in the first Christmas trading updates of the season on Thursday, after both Greggs and B&M European Value Retail hiked profits expectations after strong festive showings
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Iceland offering ‘ethical loans’ to help families pay food bills
The ‘Iceland Food Club’ is offering short-term ‘microloans’ of £25 to £75, repaid in weekly £10 instalments, at an interest rate of 45%, or 55.6% APR
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Sainsbury’s boosts Aldi Price Match range with more fresh and volume lines
The new wave of 150 Aldi price-matched items includes lines such as rump steak
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Greggs chief becomes latest to disagree with Iceland boss’s call on isolation
’I don’t feel I’m in a position to call for isolation periods to be shortened,’ Greggs CEO Roger Whiteside told The Grocer
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Aldi donates more than half a million meals to charities over Christmas
The discounter partnered with local charitable groups to redistribute unsold fresh and chilled food after stores closed on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
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CEO of Poundland parent Pepco Group steps down for ‘health reasons’
Former Asda chief Andy Bond has been Pepco Group CEO since 2015
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Iceland MD calls for Covid isolation period to be cut to tackle soaring absence rates
Iceland absences have risen more than 70% in a week, from 1,000 to over 1,700, MD Richard Walker said
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Aldi planning to recruit more than 100 additional British suppliers
The new drive will include finding more British suppliers for Aldi’s general merchandise ‘Specialbuys’, some of which were affected last year by global shipping delays from China
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Analysis and Features
16 of the biggest moments in grocery in 2021
Serial shortages, Amazon’s arrival and Aldi’s efforts to #FreeCuthbert – 2021 was never dull.
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Sainsbury’s trims down Aldi price match list ahead of Christmas
Some of the items dropped from the campaign have seen a significant price hike
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Aldi ramps up M&S trolling after latest legal action over ‘copying’ allegations
The discounter has erected a ‘Kiss and make up?’ sign outside an M&S Foodhall
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Iceland cuts veg to 1p in online Christmas push
Iceland is selling 40 varieties of fresh and frozen veg for 1p a pack in online orders until midnight tonight
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Sainsbury’s adds Christmas products to Aldi price match
Sainsbury’s Aldi price match Christmas campaign runs through to 24 December
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Lidl dominates with 9% winning margin on nearest supermarket rival
At £38.24, Lidl came in £3.85 cheaper than runner-up Asda
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M&S suing Aldi for alleged copying of its products – again
M&S argues the design of Aldi’s gold flake gin is “strikingly similar” to its own ‘Light Up’ gin
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Aldi agreement to pay more for bananas not enough, insist farmers
Aldi recently announced it would pay seven pence more per kilogramme of bananas from 2022
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Poundstretcher giving staff a 10% rise as a ‘thank you’
The business has not said what its basic pay rate is
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Aldi betters Lidl’s ‘highest paying supermarket’ claim with wage rise
While the discounters’ new national hourly rates are the same, Aldi said it was the only remaining supermarket to give paid breaks, worth £750 a year