Aldi news and analysis – Page 29
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KVI Tracker
Price tracker: Sugar prices still rocketing across retailers
Year on year, the average price of sugar increased by a staggering 46%
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Analysis & Features
Compared: the cheapest Christmas dinner deals in supermarkets
With the cost of living crisis, supermarkets are in a race to the bottom on bundles, here are the meal deals on offer at the supermarkets
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Sainsbury’s undercuts Tesco and Asda in Christmas dinner wars – and its turkey is fresh
Sainsbury’s deal comes in at £23.90 for Christmas dinner for six people, working out at £3.98 a head
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Analysis & Features
Supermarket opening times over Christmas and New Year’s Day
Check out the festive opening times of your supermarket between Christmas and New Year here
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KVI Tracker
Price of eggs rising fastest in The Grocer’s new KVI price tracker
The Grocer has this week launched a new Key Value Items (KVI) tracker
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Aldi announces £12.5m support package for egg suppliers as shortages mount up
Aldi is one of many retailers to have seen shortages of eggs in recent weeks after hard-up producers halted or reduced supply
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Egg prices rise by up to 20% in two weeks as supply crisis worsens
Across the big four, Waitrose, Lidl and Aldi, there have been 37 price rises in the past two weeks
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Free-from snacking brand Crave plans NPD pipeline following Aldi listing
Crave founder Rob Brice won the ‘Store Cupboard’ episode of Channel 4 TV show ‘Aldi’s Next Big Thing’
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Aldi to donate £250,000 to community charities and boost food bank appeal this Christmas
Aldi is also putting new signage in stores highlighting to customers the most in-demand items at food banks
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Thatchers becomes latest brand to sue Aldi over copycat claims
The drinks brand claims Aldi has ‘intentionally mimicked’ its product with the ‘highly similar’ appearance of the discounter’s Taurus Cloudy Cider Lemon
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Aldi struggling to hit 2022 plastic reduction target
The change is taking longer than expected for the final 1% of own label packaging, thanks to a lack of viable alternatives
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Kevin the Carrot returns for Aldi Christmas 2022 ad
Aldi has brought back Kevin the Carrot for a 50-second teaser of its World Cup and Home Alone-themed Christmas advert
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Lidl beats Aldi on price as discounters prove cheapest in another Super Grocer 33
Tomato purée saw the most price inflation overall – up 49% year on year
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Analysis & Features
Watch: All the retailers’ Christmas adverts 2022
Marks and Spencer was the first retailer to unveil its ad this year, followed by Lidl and Sainsbury’s a few days later
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Aldi trains staff to recognise hidden disabilities sunflower symbol
The Hidden Disabilities Sunflower lanyard is a globally recognised symbol used to discreetly indicate the wearer has a non-visible disability
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Aldi set to reclaim highest-paying supermarket title from Lidl
Lidl and Aldi have been swapping places as the highest-paying supermarket based on store worker starting rates this year
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Aldi price match campaigns under pressure as inflation pushes up fruit & veg prices
From 1 September to 18 October, 22 out of 45 of the fresh produce items featured in Sainsbury’s Aldi Price Match campaign have risen in price
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West Sussex pie maker wins first episode of Aldi’s Next Big Thing
Mud Foods has won a listing as a Specialbuy with the discounter after impressing Aldi UK buying MD Julie Ashfield
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Aldi looking for 100 area managers, with pay rising to £81,000 by year five
The intake scheme consists of two separate programmes: one for graduates and one for those seeking a career change
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Aldi to train managers on menopause support for staff
The training will ‘cover an array of aspects, including raising awareness of the menopause and successfully supporting colleagues experiencing it’, according to the discounter