All Discounters articles – Page 2
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Category Report
Pizza trends 2024: A slice for everyone
Pizza volumes are flagging, so brands are broadening their styles and toppings. Will this commitment to innovation boost sales?
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Range Preview
Supermarket Christmas ranges 2024
Here’s a preview of this year’s Christmas ranges before they land on supermarket shelves
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News
Lidl pitches its bakeries against Greggs in ad campaign
The discounter has been highlighting the savings customers can make by heading to its stores, with a newspaper ad comparing its 39p jam-filled doughnut with a 95p one from Greggs
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News
Aldi hits cage-free egg commitment a year early
All major UK supermarkets have committed to making the cage-free switch by 2025
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Category Report
Winter remedies trends 2024: How discounters are reshaping the medicines aisle
With deals on the rise, how are bulk buying and discounters reshaping the medicines aisle? And where does that leave brands?
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News
The Range and Wilko owner appoints new head of property
Antony Darbyshire will be particularly responsible for the continued rollout of new Wilko stores
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Lidl becomes latest supermarket to quietly end reusable packaging in-store pilot
The pilot involved refill machines dispensing Formil detergent into pouches in stores in Swadlincote, Lichfield and Kingswinford
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Aldi calls on A-level students to apply for apprenticeship roles
The discounter is offering opportunities in stores, warehouses, and as HGV drivers
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News
Poundland cuts head office jobs after sales decline
About 60 jobs are believed to have entered a consultancy process across supply chain, finance, IT and property
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Aldi calls time on click & collect online shopping
The discounter launched click & collect in September 2020, in the midst of the online shopping boom fuelled by lockdowns in the pandemic
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Aldi invests £3bn into British beef suppliers
Aldi hopes the investment will allow farmers to plan confidently and provide security for supply chains up and down the country
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Analysis & Features
How has Iceland driven growth and can it keep going?
Richard Walker is in a triumphant mood as sales rise thanks to price freezes, partnerships and NPD. Can Iceland maintain the momentum?
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Range Preview
Waitrose launches Urban Pizza and sides fakeaway range
Can Waitrose can steal some discounter shoppers and bring the urban pizza trend home?
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News
NIQ Grocery Multiple sales data to include Aldi, Lidl, Poundland, Amazon and Farmfoods
The five join Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Morrisons, Co-op, Waitrose, M&S, Iceland, Ocado, Boots, Superdrug and Booths
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Comment & Opinion
Isn’t it time retailers focused on both price and experience?
The traditional paradigm of a choice between low prices and a good customer experience is no longer as clear-cut, says Julian Skelly, managing partner at Publicis Sapient
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Analysis & Features
Where is Morrisons going right, as Asda is going wrong?
Morrisons’ CEO Rami Baitiéh has staged improvements on price and availability, while Asda is facing falling sales and staff walkouts
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News
Poundland to give away £1,000 a day for 30 days
Poundland’s computer systems will randomly select winners from shoppers using staffed checkouts at any of its 750 UK stores – with the cash prize given out instantly
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Farmfoods is ‘fastest-hiring’ retailer, according to Indeed
The job site compared employers based on the average length of time between a successful candidate submitting an application and gaining confirmed employment in the post
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News
Aldi to open four new stores in London this year
The new London stores are set to create more than 150 jobs, as part of Aldi’s £550m UK expansion in 2024
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Poundstretcher stores giving away £10 vouchers every hour to ‘celebrate new ownership’
Stores are to randomly pick winners, in a campaign designed to highlight changes since US investment firm Fortress took over in April