Tesco news and analysis
Tesco is the largest supermarket in the UK. With more than 3,000 retail stores in Britain, it operates across Extra hypermarkets, supermarkets and in the convenience space, with the Express format. It also runs the market-leading customer loyalty programme Tesco Clubcard. Online business, Tesco.com, offers home delivery and click & collect services. The Grocer runs Tesco news, analysis, insight and opinion.
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NewsLidl and Aldi lower turkey prices after Tesco Clubcard deal
Lidl has gone to £2.50 per kg – matching Tesco’s Clubcard deal – while Aldi has gone a penny lower, at £2.49 per kg
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NewsTesco reveals Clubcard Christmas dinner for six for under £10
From today (19 December), Tesco is selling a Christmas feast for six for £9.55 with Clubcard discounts
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Analysis & FeaturesJob cuts, cyberattacks and loyalty fraud: The top supermarket stories of 2025
From devastating cyberattacks at M&S, Co-op and Morrisons to waves of job cuts driven by soaring employment costs, 2025 proved a turbulent year for Britain’s supermarkets. The Grocer rounds up the top stories that captured attention across the sector
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Analysis & FeaturesSupermarket Christmas and new year opening times 2025
Planning the big Christmas food shop? Or forgot sprouts on Christmas Eve? Here’s a complete guide to festive supermarket opening hours
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NewsSupermarkets launch new £2m Birmingham surplus hub in King Charles’ war on food poverty
The Sir Peter Rigby Coronation Food Hub, in Gravelly Park, Birmingham, opened this week and is aiming to redistribute more than seven million meals across the West Midlands annually
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NewsTesco announces major AI partnership to overhaul retail offer
The deal with fast-growing French startup Mistral AI is part of a broader strategy to embrace AI in its retail offer
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NewsSupermarkets begin talks on taking over national food safety data
The government last month gave the go-ahead for a new national system to take over running of the ‘Scores on the Doors’ food hygiene ratings scheme
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NewsTesco recalls vegan bao buns that may contain milk
This affected product is 6 Aubergine Katsu Bao Buns 258g
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NewsJason’s Sourdough lands first wholesale listing with Booker
The Tesco-owned wholesaler will stock two of the brand’s bestsellers in all 192 depots, available to trade customers nationwide
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NewsTesco announces two partnerships to bolster nature in its supply chains
The partnerships come as Tesco has revealed its Nature Programme now engages 130 farms and works with more than 30 key suppliers
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Analysis & FeaturesWhy supermarkets are ditching aggregators for in-house rapid delivery
Supermarkets and delivery apps have co-existed peacefully since the pandemic threw them together. But now retailers are looking to take them in-house
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NewsUK to launch ‘world-first’ mandatory health reporting consultation
Ministers are working with the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on the ‘world first’ mandatory reporting proposals for healthy food
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NewsTesco ‘Ribenagate’ boss David Beardmore leaves after 15 years
The Tesco veteran will play a key role in SSP’s food strategy across airports, railway stations, and motorway service areas in the UK and Ireland
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Comment & OpinionSupermarkets and the NFU are united in calling for family farm tax u-turn
There is still time for the government to act at the budget, says NFU president Tom Bradshaw
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NewsUnequal pay ‘damaging’ health and wellbeing of women supermarket workers, report claims
Leigh Day surveyed more than 4,500 female supermarket workers involved in its ongoing group claims against Asda, Sainsbury’s Morrisons, Tesco, The Co-op and Next, about the impact pay inequality is having on their health and wellbeing.
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Comment & OpinionWill the wet wipe plastic ban be enough to clear our sewers?
The ban has been popular. Now the government needs to double down and rein in manufacturers’ claims over flushability and misleading on-pack messaging
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Analysis & FeaturesSupermarket price wars: how are rivals answering Asda’s cuts?
Tesco has ramped up its pricing fightback against Asda, cutting 3,352 SKUs in a month as the supermarket giant defends its market share
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NewsTesco-backed own-label manufacturing platform Keychain launches in UK
Keychain enables retailers to ‘design and produce their own-brand products from scratch’ and tap a network of more than 2,000 local manufacturers
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NewsTesco launches farmer data programme and calls for national framework
The retailer has launched an extension of its environmental data baselining programme to help lamb and beef farmers capture soil, water and nature data at scale for the first time
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NewsSupermarket Income REIT makes first convenience store acquisitions
The investment fund said it increasingly saw opportunity in convenience