The government has given food businesses until summer 2021 to prepare for allergen labelling of food prepared on site (Financial Times £). Businesses will have to fully label ingredients in salads, sandwiches and sushi prepared on site. The new law will apply to foods classified as “pre-packed for direct sales”.

The Co-op will pilot 100% compostable sandwich wrappers at Glastonbury festival which starts tomorrow. All elements of the packaging will be compostable, the society said. It will also sell recyclable aluminium cans of spring water and refillable water bottles that can be filled form water taps on the site. All single-used plastic bottles have been banned from the festival. (The Guardian).

Boots says it will ditch plastic bags in all its stores by the end of next year. It will replace them with paper alternatives. It started phasing them out yesterday. It will continue to charge customers for the unbleached brown bags (The Daily Telegraph). The change will be seen in 53 stores this week before it is extended to all 2,485 outlets by early next year (The Mail). The business will remove 40m plastic bags a year from use and will give all profits from the new unbleached brown bags to BBC Children in Need (The Guardian). Charges will be 5p, 7p and 10p depending on size. Sky News says the change comes a month after MPs challenged the business on its decision to replace paper prescription bags with plastic. The BBC says prescriptions will still be sent out in plastic packaging because the bags need to be durable. It says the plastic is recyclable.

The BBC writes about Sainsbury’s new trial range, “Taste of the Future”, which the supermarket group hopes will attract more millennials. However, the stand in the Camden store is failing to excite customers, the article says. Customers appear to be baulking at the high prices. Sainsbury’s said the pricing was “just how we normally price”. Global Data says it is important to distinguish between fad products and those that seek to serve growing markets.

Amazon has launched its own beauty supply store for professionals (Financial Times £, Reuters). The news hit the shares in some of the US’s biggest beauty and cosmetics groups.

Singapore-based start-up Trax has acquired Californian shopping rewards app Shopkick for an undisclosed price. The Financial Times (£) says it will enable the company to bring together data from in-store cameras and a new mobile app, which steers shoppers to purchases. The technology that brings together shelf and shopper data.

Beyond Meat was on track to drop for a fifth consecutive session yesterday – falling 78% to $143.32 by Monday afternoon in New York. The shares fell 6.7% on Friday (Financial Times £).

Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky should splash out more if he is serious about his bid for Metro AG, says the Financial Times (£). He offered €16 a share which Metro rejected.

Cake Box’s revenues grew 33% to £16.9m, the company announced in its maiden annual results since last summer’s flotation (The Daily Telegraph). Pre-tax profits came in at £3.8m in the year to March, up from £3.3m.

Just Eat has appointed a former Uber Eats’ head of Europe, Middle East and Africa business as a non-executive director. Jambu Palaniappan will join from Atomico, a tech investment business (The Mail).

An opinion piece in The Guardian discusses racial profiling in US stores. The writer says: “Name a store, and I’ll bet I can find a black person who has experience discrimination there”. A 2018 Gallup poll of black Americans found that nearly two-thirds perceived that blacks are treated less fairly than whites while shopping – a figure that has steadily increased over the past decade.

Eurostar has defended limited the amount of alcohol passengers can carry on its trains to one bottle of wine or four cans have beer and no spirits, BBC. It says it has made the edict to “maintain a pleasant environment”.

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