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Co-op to offer free school meals with gift card scheme
Education secretary Gavin Williamson said schools would be fully reimbursed and refunded for purchasing the gift cards
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Morrisons to launch ‘speedy shopper’ system for food-to-go customers
Morrisons reported a 5.7% rise in group like-for-like sales in its latest quarter
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Tesco launches barbecue-focused Fire Pit meat range
The range was launched in Ireland last May and started rolling out across Tesco’s stores in Great Britain ahead of last Friday’s bank holiday
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Sainsbury’s appoints Weed and Kapilashrami as non-exec directors
Keith Weed and Tanuj Kapilashrami join on 1 July to replace outgoing board members Matt Brittin and Jean Tomlin
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Rubies in the Rubble launches plant-based mayo duo into Waitrose
They will be sold in the retailer’s condiments fixture, rather than its free-from fixture
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Unilever recalls Mini Calippo multipacks over metal fragment fears
Internal quality checks show the products may contain pieces of metal
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Media Bites 12 May: Furlough scheme, Petrol prices, UK spending
Furloughed workers could be allowed back part time under new measures to be announced by the chancellor, petrol prices drop to four-year low and Britons splash on food and alcohol during lockdown
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City snapshot: Morrisons retail sales surge under coronavirus lockdown
Morrisons has reported a 5.7% jump in first quarter like for like sales, excluding fuel, as its grocery sales surged under the coronavirus lockdown conditions.
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Retail rents likely to factor in turnover after crisis, say landlords
Four out of five landlords said the pandemic would change the terms on which retail property was occupied
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CapVest adds Irish pork producer M&M Walshe to Karro and Young’s
Private equity investor CapVest has acquired Irish pork producer M&M Walshe for its Eight Fifty Food Group vehicle, which already houses Karro and Young’s Seafood.
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Coronavirus: SMEs fear end to furlough scheme will lead to redundancies
Emma Loisel, co-founder and chair at Volcano Coffee Works, wrote an open letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak this week urging a change in the rules of the furlough scheme
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Food redistribution charities to get £16m share of government coronavirus funding
The money will be used to buy food direct from supermarkets and other food suppliers to provide millions of meals over the next 12 weeks
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Third of Brits order groceries online as availability grows
In the final two weeks of April, 33% of consumers ordered groceries for home delivery, according to a survey of 1,069 UK adults by Harris Interactive
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Blakemore Retail launches new online shopping service
The new website offers a range of more than 1,100 products
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Retailers and landlords warn of business collapse without rent support
The British Retail Consortium and British Property Federation have renewed their appeal for the government to pay some of the rent due in lockdown
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Morrisons: Amazon Prime Now service capacity has doubled during lockdown
By the end of May, it will have been extended nationwide to over 40 stores, covering the UK’s largest cities
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Avara targets millennials with new brand The Turkey Kitchen
The poultry giant has launched three products under the brand into Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons
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Former Savsé boss Paul Gurnell joins Purearth as general manager
The brand was “fantastically well placed to unlock the huge potential that the functional drinks market holds”, said Gurnell
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MSC sustainable fish certification a ‘sham’, claims NGO report
The MSC has described the analysis by NGO Bloom as ‘over-simplistic’ and ‘wholly untrue’