All Specialist Retailers articles
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Analysis & Features
Five tips from the Farm Shop & Deli Dragons’ Pantry Accelerator
The Farm Shop & Deli Dragons’ Pantry Accelerator offered insight on topics including getting a wholesale listing and making the most of customer data
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News
Media Bites 14 November: Homebase, Just Eat, Asda market share
The demise of struggling retailer Homebase is one of the main topics of coverage for the nationals this morning
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News
Majestic continues expansion march with trio of openings in a fortnight
The fortnight of openings is the busiest period of retail expansion by Majestic since it split from Naked Wines in 2019
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News
Holland & Barrett gears up for major own-label food push
Holland & Barrett has opened its first ever food and drink innovation kitchen in London
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News
Robertshaw’s to open store on former Keelham Farm Shop site
Fourth-generation family business Robertshaw’s already operates a farm shop in Thornton, Bradford
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News
Farm Shop & Deli Product Awards 2025 open for entries
This year’s awards will be accepting entries across a range of food, drink and non-food categories
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Comment & Opinion
Neal’s Yard fraud proves small suppliers are at huge risk
Crime, in all its different guises, is never far from the surface when it comes to food and drink
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News
Harrods launches new ‘experience’ focused e-commerce platform
Suppliers will now be able to create fully customed pages within Harrod’s main web infrastructure
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News
Neal’s Yard Dairy loses 22 tonnes of cheese in £300k fraud
The London-based artisan cheese retailer and wholesaler described the theft as ’deceptively convincing’
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News
Farm shop veterans open venture in Grimsthorpe Castle estate
The shop will trade from Thursday to Saturday each while the castle is closed
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News
Modern Milkman cuts losses in half in latest results
The Manchester-based business posted an operating loss of £10.5m in the year to 31 December 2023, down from £22.8m in 2022
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News
Holland & Barrett to open 50 new UK stores in 2025
It includes an expansion of partnerships with Tesco and Next, Holland & Barrett property and format director Nick Gerrard told The Grocer
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Analysis & Features
How the Welbeck estate went large to win farm shop award
Winner of the small farm shop award in 2020, Welbeck has made its space work hard to pick up the large farm shop prize
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Comment & Opinion
The Farm Shop Guide: colourful compendium offers farm-to-fork roadmap
There is something quintessentially British about foraging for food in the proverbial back yard
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News
Booths expands ‘scoop-your-own’ concessions partnership with FieldFare
Booths has been steadily increasing its frozen offer over the past couple of years
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News
Whole Foods Market UK losses narrow after value push
The Amazon-owned grocer began a value campaign in 2023 in a bid to lure UK shoppers to its stores
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News
Cook and The Felix Project partner to redistribute end-of-line surplus food
The process has helped Cook redistrbute an estimated 16 tonnes of end-of-line surplus food
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News
Whole Foods kicks off annual hunt for new challenger brands
Whole Foods buyers will give special preference to brands that have yet to launch into major retail
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News
Booths hails ‘solid’ performance after customer investment pays off
Results were helped by ‘record’ Christmas sales and Booths’ investment in stores
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Profiles
My food & drink job: Lucy Browne, recruitment manager, Planet Organic
‘I get to work with like-minded individuals who share a passion for health and sustainability’