more supermarket news & analysis – Page 252
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Comment & Opinion
Three ways to navigate retailer pressure as hospitality opens back up
Suppliers need to handle the potential crash of hefty demands from both mults and hospitality businesses, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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News
Food-to-go market drops almost 50% in value in 2020
Lumina Intelligence report found food to go sales fell to £11.6bn in 2020
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Co-op bans sales of peat-based compost in stores
The ban forms part of the retailer’s environmental commitments to combat the climate crisis
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Asda opens first London in-store vaccination centre
Asda become the first supermarket to provide in-store vaccination in January
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Tesco links with SimplyCook for ‘Let’s Cook’ in-store meal kits
The ‘Let’s Cook’ one-stop chiller bay will invite shoppers to create a meal for two for £6
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Grocer 33
Excellent service delivers win for ‘well-ordered’ Tesco Bracknell
Our mystery shopper visited on a busy Sunday afternoon and, though there was a short queue to enter the store, it was managed efficiently
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Grocer 33
Grocer 33 store of the week: Tesco Warfield, Bracknell
‘Lockdown easing is a chance for us to prove we can win the loyalty of our shoppers when the other, non-essential, stores open’
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Comment & Opinion
Aldi’s ad gives Easter a Latin twist
It’s unusual to see Easter given a Latin twist, but Aldi has done just that
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News
Matt Atkinson to step down as Co-op’s chief customer officer
Atkinson joined Co-op in 2017 and was charged with transforming the society’s data, digital, membership and community platforms
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News
Emma Isaac joins Waitrose as head of marketing
Isaac moved to the retailer this week, following four years at the Natwest Group
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News
Retailers and suppliers to foot ‘sky-rocketing’ packaging waste bill, new documents reveal
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is due to come into force from 2024 and the official estimate of the cost in its first full year has shot up
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News
KellyDeli launches Asian food concession into seven Asdas
The counters offer a range of healthy meals, snacks and comfort food
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News
Rapid Covid home testing kits to be provided to businesses
So far, 60,000 businesses across the UK have registered for regular work-based testing
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News
City snapshot: Grocery sales fall in March as industry laps 2020 lockdown
Grocery sales growth fell back in March as the industry lapped last year’s record-breaking spending during the first coronavirus lockdown,
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Waitrose claims first with home compostable coffee capsules
Previous capsules were made from polypropylene with an aluminium lid, which were difficult to separate for recycling
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Comment & Opinion
How to encourage consumers to adopt new products and meals into their repertoire
People have a limited repertoire of seven to 10 meals that they recycle over weeks, months and often years, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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News
Asda appoints chief information officer to oversee Walmart separation
Carl Dawson will join the retailer next month having held the same role at M&S for the past six years
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Waitrose launches ‘UK first’ MSC-certified yellowfin & albacore tuna products
The retailer said it had taken more than a decade of work to launch the NPD
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Co-op opens third franchise store of the year, in St Helens
The store was previously run as a Spar by owner Stephen Richards
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Asda loses Supreme Court appeal over equal pay
Store workers brought an equal pay claim after complaining staff working in distribution depots got more money than those on the shop floor