All The Grocer articles in 20 June 2020
Previous issues.
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Analysis and FeaturesGuide for SMEs: How to nail your CBILS application in eight steps
We spoke to Atom bank to provide a step-by-step guide to nail your CBILS application
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NewsEat 17 sets sights on pubs and restaurants for franchise expansion
The retailer plans to open new stores across the capital by offering its model of combining retail and foodservice to pubs and restaurants
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NewsConvenience store plastic-free initiatives derailed by coronavirus
Thornton’s Budgens in Belsize Park launched a milk dispenser last year but has had to adapt the service as a precaution
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Comment and OpinionAs consumer choice returns, brand values will remain important
In such unusual times, businesses have been forced to make quick decisions
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Comment and OpinionTrade deals: we need to be able to ‘follow the science’ on food standards
Framing a potential US trade deal purely in terms of chicken does a disservice to the complexity of trade deals
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Category ReportThe new night out? Big night in category report 2020
Stuck-at-home consumers are tiring of scratch cooking and looking to treat themselves. So which categories are benefiting?
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NewsCostcutter unveils new website for prospective retailers
The new website details Costcutter’s shopper insights programme, marketing and business support initiatives, store branding, price and rebate offer
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NewsWincanton extends Morrisons logistics partnership with ‘significant’ new deal
The “substantial” contract extension involves the TUPE transfer of more than 250 colleagues to Wincanton from DH
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NewsOnline delivery firms failing to ID-check teenagers over booze and fags orders
The proportion of teenagers being asked for ID at the doorstep after buying cigarettes and booze online has fallen 15% since April
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Comment and OpinionCaptain America’s Marvel-ous conspiracy debunked by pasta detective
So an Instagram user has posted a theory that 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger “predicted” the coronavirus outbreak
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Comment and OpinionLockdown cheese is happy accident for Vosges fromager
The passing of time does interesting things to food
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Comment and OpinionIncubated Waitrose eggs are all they quacked up to be
Furloughed? Bored? Why not stick some supermarket eggs in an incubator?
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NewsThai Union trials AI system to eradicate bad fishing practices
The John West owner claimed the system would provide greater reassurance their tuna was responsibly and ethically caught
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NewsTech firm Cennox launches ultraviolet-C chip & pin machine sanitiser
Cennox has designed a system with casing to fit around a retailer’s point-of-sale terminals and chip-and-pin devices
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NewsBuying group Confex to launch Core own-label product range
Core will consist of 275 catering-sized products across ambient, chilled, frozen and grocery categories
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NewsBestway joins push to prevent relaxing of Sunday trading laws
MD Dawood Pervez has written to chancellor Rishi Sunak and business secretary Alok Sharma urging them to rethink their plans
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NewsSuppliers uneasy about one-metre social distancing rule change
In a survey by the FDF this week, 71% of suppliers felt employees would be concerned a move to one metre would ‘not be a safe environment’ for food production
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NewsFinnebrogue Artisan appoints Andrew Nethercott as new MD
He replaces Brian McMonagle, who left in March 2019
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NewsWholesale sector warning as Bidfood consults on hundreds of jobs
The Grocer understands hundreds of jobs are at risk as Bidfood, which employs 5,400 staff, looks to restructure
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Comment and OpinionMars Wrigley and Motty mark football’s return
Premier League football returned this week – and Mars Wrigley was ready for it