more supermarket news & analysis – Page 172
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Grocer Gold Awards 2022: Grocer 33 - price award
Asda is cheapest in Grocer 33 battle for 25th consecutive year
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Analysis & Features
What it meant to become the first female Grocer Gold Store Manager of the Year
Joanne Bennett-McNally has been with Morrisons since, joining as a store manager after 13 years with Tesco
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Comment & Opinion
Lidl is accusing Tesco of ‘riding on coat-tails’. Well, it would know about that
There is an element of poacher turned gamekeeper about Lidl’s legal move
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Shoppers forced to start saving now to afford Christmas amid soaring living costs
Consumers are having to make “impossible choices” as living costs increase Shoppers are facing “impossible choices” as the cost of living crisis is forcing households with children to start saving now in order to afford Christmas. Nearly half of shoppers with children at home claimed they were ...
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Lidl accuses Tesco of copying its logo to ‘ride on discounter coat-tails’
In a High Court dispute, Lidl has claimed Tesco’s Clubcard Prices logo, featuring a yellow circle on a blue background, is too similar to its own
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Meghan Farren to leave as Asda chief customer officer after less than a year
Farren is returning to KFC to become its general manager for the UK
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M&S Food marketing director Sharry Cramond to also oversee hospitality
Cramond, who has been the food division’s marketing chief for over four years, will now also oversee all 330 of M&S’s in-store coffee shops
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City snapshot: Inflation to drive double-digit grocery growth by 2027
The UK grocery market is set for double-digit growth over the next five years, largely driven by inflation.
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Discounters forecast to be fastest-growing grocery channel over next five years
The UK grocery market as a whole will grow 11.3% to £241.3bn, according to analysis by IGD
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Analysis & Features
The Mad Men inside supermarkets
Supermarkets are no longer just about food. With some of the best customer data at their fingertips, they want to sell you advertising too
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Sainsbury’s and Tesco respond to cost of production crisis with further milk price increases
The move follows growing farmer unrest that supermarket-aligned milk pools are not keeping up with market averages
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Comment & Opinion
The industry is at war with itself, and the cause is obvious, but the solutions are not
It might not have felt like it but, since 2014, retailer-supplier relations have enjoyed a tense benevolence
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Analysis & Features
Live shopping, a Norwegian Ocado and the M&S ‘bullseye’: five key moments from Shoptalk Europe
While TikTok sees the UK live shopping market reaching $7.4bn, M&S unveiled its plans to personalise five billion customer interactions
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Grocer 33
Waitrose Saltash, Cornwall: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘We’re very much a tourist destination shop, particularly at this time of year as people are coming down to Cornwall’
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Grocer 33
Waitrose takes the lead with final Jubilee efforts, Asda flops
Waitrose in Saltash, Cornwall had an ‘enticing’ display of offers celebrating the Jubilee
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Grocer 33
Asda is cheapest again, unless Tesco Clubcard savings are applied
It’s the seventh time in the 50 weeks of the competition where Tesco would have been cheaper
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Lidl strives to increase nutritional variety of donations as more people turn to food banks
The discounter has selected 30 long-life food lines, modelled using the NHS Eatwell Guide to a balanced diet, and signposted them as ‘Good to Give’
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British food & drink gets major boost during Jubilee
According to British Berry Growers, UK consumers bought 4,900 tonnes of strawberries over the Jubilee week of 30 May to 5 June
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Morrisons increases pay for shop floor staff to £10.20 an hour
The supermarket said it was a minimum 2% increase in its base rate
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Comment & Opinion
Dish: Hartnett and Grimshaw’s Waitrose podcast lacks class
Dubious audio, uninspiring recipes and unnecessary distractions don’t make for a winning podcast