more supermarket news & analysis
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News
C-store advertising also boosts brand sales in nearby supermarkets, Co-op finds
One retail media campaign for a global beer business generated a 12% brand sales increase in Co-op stores, but also drove a 3% uplift in surrounding supermarkets
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Analysis and Features
Sainsbury’s wins Grocer of the Year for the first time in two decades
Sainsbury’s has bagged Grocer of the Year for the first time in nearly two decades at last night’s Grocer Gold Awards 2024 – topping an outstanding evening of celebration
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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Own-Label Range of the Year
Judges were particularly impressed with premiumising meal deals and the brand’s laser focus on great packaging
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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: The Grocer 33 Award for Price
For the first time since the birth of the Grocer 33 back in 1997, we have a new name on this award
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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: The Grocer 33 Award for Availability
The UK’s biggest grocer was miles ahead of its rivals in terms of providing our mystery shoppers with full baskets this year
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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: The Grocer 33 Award for Service
The upmarket retailer picked up 16 Grocer 33 store of the week awards - down from the 20 it scored last year
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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Employer of the Year (Retailer)
The supermarket’s improvments to pay, maternity, paternity and adoption leave benefits, and a new virtual GP service stood out to judges
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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Store Manager of the Year
Judges praised Griffiths’ “genuinely outstanding” achievements during a highly disrupted year
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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Britain’s Favourite Supermarket
The UK’s biggest retailer once again came out top in NIQ’s Homescan survey of more than 7,000 households
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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Online Service of the Year
The UK’s biggest online grocery retailer, serving nearly 1.2 million customers every week, and has undertaken comprehensive investments in the last year
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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Grocer of the Year
Sainsbury’s has increased share and shopper penetration and was the only big four supermarket in the past year to gain shopper spend from both Aldi and Lidl
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News
Food industry comes together on net zero transition plan
IGD is leading the industry-wide plan along with EY and Wrap
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News
M&S investing £38m in two new stores in Bristol and Bath
The planned Bristol and Bath stores were announced today by CEO Stuart Machin in response to a shareholder question at the retailer’s AGM
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News
Iceland’s digital chief David Devany to be Asda’s VP of e-commerce
Devany has been Iceland’s group chief customer, marketing and digital officer since 2020
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News
Sainsbury’s adds another 50 products to Aldi Price Match scheme in a month
The supermarket has added more cupboard staples, ingredients and ‘summer favourites’, as the battle over price matching intensifies
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News
Waitrose beef supplier Dovecote Park enjoys strong growth in latest accounts
The North Yorkshire-based supplier saw profits almost double last year, while turnover rose by just under 15%
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News
Cook appoints Leon’s Ashley Davis as new chief commercial officer
Ashley Davis will support Cook’s co-founders Rosie Brown and Ed Perry in the newly created role
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News
McVitie’s unveils Seriously Chocolatey Digestives
The NPD comprises a cocoa-flavoured digestive biscuit with dark chocolate chips, topped with milk chocolate
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Range Preview
Preview some of the 130 new launches into Waitrose’s No.1 range
New additions include sausage from pigs sired by pedigree Hampshire boars and Belgian blonde chocolate florentines from a Dorset bakery founded in 1916
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Category Report
Kids’ lunch trends 2024: Obesity unpacked?
Childhood obesity peaked in lockdown. Today, it remains above pre-pandemic levels. So do our packed lunches need to change?