more discounter news & analysis – Page 68
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Poundland introduces ‘greeter’ role to encourage mask wearing
The greeters are tasked with asking shoppers to wear a face covering and providing a free mask if they don’t have one
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Lidl to give store and DC staff one-off £200 bonus
The payment recognises their ‘tireless efforts to keep the nation fed and provide a safe shopping experience for customers up and down the country’, Lidl said
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Morrisons undercuts Aldi with cheaper vegan Valentine’s Day dine-in deal
Morrisons’ deal will cost £15 and include a starter, main, two sides, dessert and a bottle of fizz for two
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Iceland at war with Greenpeace after it comes bottom of plastic reduction league table
Waitrose topped the table for a second successive year
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Analysis and Features
Coronavirus: what are the latest in-store measures from the major supermarkets?
Supermarkets have been forced to step up safety measures. So what are their latest moves to keep shoppers and staff as safe as possible?
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Iceland expands Uber Eats trial to more London stores
The trial is just one of the ways Iceland has dramatically expanded its online services during the pandemic
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Iceland MD Walker writes book promising to help other businesses be greener
Called ‘The Green Grocer: one man’s manifesto for corporate activism’, the book explores the Iceland boss’s ‘life and business lessons, and passion for sustainability and social change’
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Aldi falls short of 50 new stores a year in 2020
Delays to construction under Covid restrictions have forced Aldi to push some of the 2020 target into 2021
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Iceland renews XPO storage and distribution deal
The contract covers six Iceland warehouses in Warrington, Deeside, Enfield, Livingston and two in Swindon
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Aldi raises minimum hourly pay to £9.55 nationally and £11.07 in London
All Aldi’s 30,000 store assistants are to benefit from the new pay rate, which exceeds the Living Wage Foundation’s recommended ‘real living wage’
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Aldi swaps plastic shrink-wrap for cardboard on soft drink multipacks
The shrink-wrap has been replaced with 100% recyclable FSC-certified cardboard, saving a claimed 90 tonnes of plastic a year
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Media Bites 14 January: Brexit, Lidl, Just Eat, Unilever
The UK government is proposing to fast-track empty supermarket food lorries returning to Europe to restock, as concerns mount in Whitehall that post-Brexit port disruption threatened supermarket supply shortages.
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City snapshot: Pink fizz and festive jumpers drive record Christmas at Lidl
Lidl increased overall sales 17.9% in the four weeks to 27 December compared to Christmas 2019 to outperform its big four rivals and Aldi. Plus, Just Eat sees orders surge again in fourth quarter as new lockdowns benefit the takeaway delivery app.
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Iceland launches new recruitment push for 1,000 drivers and 2,500 store staff
It’s on top of the 3,000 additional drivers and store assistants Iceland has already taken on in the pandemic
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Aldi pledges to donate 10 million meals to families in need
The discounter has also commissioned an animated film narrated by Marcus Rashford to raise awareness of food poverty
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Iceland rejects making staff enforce mask wearing by shoppers
Iceland has said that in light of abuse of shopworkers, it does not expect staff to ’confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law’
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Iceland contacts 150,000 vulnerable customers offering priority delivery
The vulnerable shoppers were contacted within an hour of Boris Johnson’s lockdown announcement on Monday last week, according to Iceland MD Richard Walker
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Comment and Opinion
Why Morrisons, Iceland and Lidl led the way in a Christmas like no other
Canny festive ranges, online capabilities and tactical couponing determined the winners this year, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Poundland temporarily closing 44 stores as footfall declines
The measure is in response to an 80% drop in footfall in some shopping centres and high streets as the UK’s various lockdown rules take hold, Poundland said
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Comment and Opinion
Why did Aldi struggle this Christmas?
It’s already clear from the Kantar numbers, out this week, who the biggest ‘loser’ was this Christmas