All Supermarkets articles – Page 169
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NewsSupermarket bosses complain of ‘draconian’ Covid clampdown by health inspectors
Councils have been sending in inspectors across the UK after being urged by ministers to enforce safety measures
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NewsRetailers welcome new legal protections for shopworkers in Scotland
Scottish Parliament yesterday voted to support a bill to create a new statutory offence of assaulting, threatening or abusing a retail worker
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NewsIceland renews XPO storage and distribution deal
The contract covers six Iceland warehouses in Warrington, Deeside, Enfield, Livingston and two in Swindon
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NewsSupermarkets ‘at risk of discriminating against disabled people’ over face masks
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to supermarket CEOs warning they could be breaking the law
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NewsAldi raises minimum hourly pay to £9.55 nationally and £11.07 in London
All Aldi’s 30,000 store assistants are to benefit from the new pay rate, which exceeds the Living Wage Foundation’s recommended ‘real living wage’
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NewsTesco mobile payment app Pay+ tops £1bn mark
Tesco said it now had 1.2 million registered users signed up
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NewsGroceryAid gives out awards to supporters in bumper year
The number of companies extending support to the charity in 2020 has increased by 24% compared to the previous year
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Comment & OpinionTesco M&A might sound like a wild prediction, but supermarkets are in play for all sorts
If anyone had predicted last January that Tesco would grow at double Aldi’s rate in 2020 you would have laughed
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NewsSupermarkets take urgent action to stop spread of Covid
Supermarkets insist stores are safe and defend themselves in new talks on coronavirus transmission
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Analysis & FeaturesHow will Covid shape food and drink trends in 2021?
Will we see a return to normal, or will shoppers persist with the new habits they formed under lockdown?
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Analysis & FeaturesCan new GCA tackle supplier fears over confidentiality?
New adjudicator Mark White wants written guarantees from CCOs
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NewsCity snapshot: Supermarket prices return to inflation amid new lockdowns and Brexit
Supermarket price inflation escalated to its highest level for five months in December as coronavirus restrictions and the UK’s imminent exit from the EU reversed deflationary trends in grocery.
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Analysis & FeaturesCan the vegan eating boom continue at pace?
With each Veganuary comes yet more momentum for the plant-based movement. But the vegan market is still small fry compared with meat and dairy – and questions remain over its long-term potential
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NewsAldi swaps plastic shrink-wrap for cardboard on soft drink multipacks
The shrink-wrap has been replaced with 100% recyclable FSC-certified cardboard, saving a claimed 90 tonnes of plastic a year
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Comment & OpinionHow supermarkets can get people to ‘mask up’ to stop the spread of Covid-19
Clarity is vital, as is empathy, and making it easy for customers to wear masks, says Total Media’s William Hanmer Lloyd
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NewsPetition launched to prioritise shopworkers in Covid vaccine rollout
The petition was created by Sarah Green, understood to be a shopworker
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NewsGovernment set to prioritise supermarkets at EU border to avoid food shortages
Supermarket lorries returning to the EU to restock will be prioritised at the border under the proposals
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NewsBooths reports strong Christmas with like-for-like sales up 12%
There were strong sales of smaller turkey lines, up 23%, while turkey crown sales rose 38%
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NewsSupermarket bosses demand ‘urgent intervention’ over NI food shortages
In a letter to Michael Gove, CEOs warned shortages could worsen after the grace period ended in April
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NewsIceland rejects making staff enforce mask wearing by shoppers
Iceland has said that in light of abuse of shopworkers, it does not expect staff to ’confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law’