more supermarket news & analysis – Page 35
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Comment and Opinion
How businesses can embrace neurodiverse shoppers and staff
We must meet consumers where they are and support retailers to do the same, says Paul Graham, Britvic MD
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News
Sainsbury’s kicks off new café collaboration with Costa
It’s the latest high street coffee chain to open cafés in Sainsbury’s supermarkets
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News
Tesco to add unit price to Clubcard Prices promotions
The way supermarkets display unit prices has been under renewed scrutiny from the CMA in its response to the cost of living crisis
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News
Rowntree’s launches sour Randoms spin-off Fizzy Cactuz
The NPD comprises fizzy, cacti-shaped gummy sweets in ‘zesty’ fruit flavours
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News
Roastworks Coffee cuts ties with Tesco
Roastworks Coffee’s products were last stocked with Tesco on 3 January
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Comment and Opinion
Price match will take Morrisons only so far. What else does it have?
If there was a supermarket Bafta for most original turn, it certainly wouldn’t be going to Morrisons this week
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News
Iceland boosted by ‘positive’ Moody’s outlook despite weaker than expected results
The optimistic outlook will come as a boost for Iceland after scrutiny over Iceland’s expsoure to high energy costs has increased over the past couple of years
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News
Aldi doubles the paper on loo rolls to reduce packaging
The trial, in the West Midlands, East Midlands and Yorkshire, will also reduce the number of lorries needed to deliver toilet roll to stores, according to Aldi
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News
Compostable packaging labelling experiment sees proper disposal boom
The experiment – led by Ocado, Recoup and Compostable Coalition UK – saw 120 households receive goods in both compostable and plastic packaging
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Comment and Opinion
Is Morrisons right to bring customers into management meetings?
Senior teams are highly experienced, but this can hold them back in a cycle of what they already know, says Stuart Williamson, partner at Sullivan & Stanley
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News
Morrisons launches Aldi and Lidl price match
Morrisons said it will check prices against both Aldi and Lidl twice per week to make sure they are as low or lower
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News
Lidl pitching for £90m funding to build 12 new UK supermarkets
Lidl wants to boost its store opening programme with £91.16m in funding to build 12 supermarkets across the UK
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News
Iceland to raise awareness of suicide with new signs in stores
The ’first of its kind’ partnership with CALM will see new messaging rolled out across Iceland stores aimed at signposting customers to mental health support
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News
M&S: Gove based Marble Arch store decision on policy that ‘doesn’t exist’
In a legal challenge which reached High Court this week, M&S claimed Gove ‘misunderstood and misapplied’ national planning policy in arriving at his decision in July last year
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Comment and Opinion
Convenience stores are the new frontier of retail media
Co-op’s retail media network shows convenience stores are beginning to comprehend the financial opportunity, says David Muldoon, VP, strategic advisory at MediaLink
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Long reads
Meet the top 10 women making an impact in own label
A competitive own-label range is becoming ever more crucial to the success of the supermarkets – and women are playing an ever greater role. We meet the big hitters
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Grocer 33
Asda, Roehampton: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘The transition between spring and summer is big for us as a store, and it’s really important we manage that proposition – as a business we do that well’
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Amazon and Tesco run Asda close for cheapest retailer
At £78.21, Asda came in 52p cheaper than Amazon and 4p cheaper than the Tesco basket with Clubcard Prices
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Grocer 33
Asda is best supermarket in our Wimbledon mystery shop
Asda’s store was described as “wide open, tidy, modern and very inviting”
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‘Smooth’ Morrisons comes out on top as online pureplays flop
Morrisons scored a stellar 93 for this London-based order, which our shopper hailed as a ‘very smooth process’