more supermarket news & analysis – Page 201
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News
Asda, Ocado driverless partner Wayve secures $200m funding
The round is a significant cash injection for the London-based startup, which had previously raised $58m since it was founded in 2017
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M&S renews calls for end to all Northern Ireland border checks
The retailer’s COO Stuart Machin made the calls in a letter to Boris Johnson
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Comment & Opinion
Meal kit providers are at the forefront of consumer trends. Retailers, watch closely
Meal kits allow busy consumers to cook healthy, varied meals for a lot less stress than trawling a supermarket, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Comment & Opinion
Morrisons’ milk ‘sniff test’ returns power to consumers to trust their instincts with food
An abundance of product labelling has deskilled consumers and damaged our understanding of perishability, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Rodda’s secures nationwide listing with Tesco for clotted cream
MD Nicholas Rodda described the national listing with Tesco as a “watershed moment for the brand”
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Tesco opens new UFCs as online expansion steps up a gear
The Grocer can reveal the latest site will be the Horwich Extra store, in Bolton
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Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover: reaction to death of supermarket industry giant at 94
As chairman and CEO from 1969-1992, his flotation of the family business on the stock market in 1972 was, at the time, the largest in UK history
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City rewards Sainsbury’s over the big winners of Christmas Tesco and M&S
If Tesco and Marks & Spencer were the big listed grocery winners of Christmas, they received scant reward from the City this week, which sent shares down on their Christmas trading updates
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Comment & Opinion
The results are in and the winner is… grocery
We have Kantar and NielsenIQ to tell us about topline sales momentum, but that’s slim pickings versus the updates from the plcs
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Sainsbury’s promotes Graham Biggart to new role of chief transformation officer
McColl’s chief commercial officer Richard Crampton is to return to Sainsbury’s in March to take on Biggart’s current role
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Grocer 33
Tesco Bracknell: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘I’ve worked for Tesco for 27 years. I’ve been a store manager for 16 years and I’ve been at Bracknell for just over a year’
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‘Pleasant’ Tesco Bracknell wins in low-scoring week
This was a highly competitive week despite being generally low-scoring
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Analysis & Features
Who were grocery’s big winners and losers of Christmas 2021?
The mults managed to keep spend flat compared with 2020 (though inflation played a part). Who got what they wished for and who’s hungover?
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Asda wins despite taking biggest hit on inflation again
Asda’s total was 7.5% more expensive year on year, the highest of any of the retailers
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Beef commodity prices set to stay high due to tight supply
Asda came under fire last week after it emerged it had u-turned on a commitment to switch to 100% British beef sourcing
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Co-op Honest Value range extended to all Nisa retailers
Nisa said the move can bring budget-conscious shoppers a competitive offer in “increasingly challenging times”.
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Tesco to roll out Whoosh one-hour delivery service to 600 stores
The service – which offers fast delivery for a flat £5 fee – was quietly launched in May, from a single store in Wolverhampton
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Groceries Code Adjudicator to probe supermarket inflation delistings
GCA Mark White has asked suppliers to come forward with their experience of asking supermarkets to agree price increases
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Tissues shortage as illness and supply woes combine
At the time of writing, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose had flagged the issue with availability notices on their websites
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Omicron: thousands of supermarket temps kept on to tackle staffing crisis
The extension to temporary contracts is the latest move by the industry to head off a workforce crisis caused by Covid