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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Diageo job cuts & Asda’s convenience push
Diageo confirms it shed nearly 2,000 jobs last year, with more cuts expected as the drinks giant rolls out its new operating model, plus Asda’s move into indie convenience and a busy week for M&A
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Comment & OpinionRight crime, wrong face: Who’s to blame when facial recognition gets it wrong?
Bleating about the accuracy of the tech and blaming shopworkers when they get it wrong is an underhanded misdirection from the facial recognition companies
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NewsM&S declares backing for Let’s Respect Retail campaign
The retailer has claimed to be ‘the first major UK grocer to publicly support’ the initiative
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NewsIceland’s use of crime-fighting AI reduces theft losses by 80%
SAI’s tech solution is able to detect missed scans, partial payment and walkouts at self-checkouts and concealment and consumption in the aisles
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NewsLegitimate vape shops ‘smeared’ by government rhetoric, claims trade body
UK Vaping Industry Association director general John Dunne was reacting to HMRC’s call for the public to report ‘firms breaking the law and blighting the high street, from vape shops to barbers’
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NewsSainsbury’s facial recognition rollout to continue despite false thief claim
Sainsbury’s has temporarily suspended the use of Facewatch technology from the Dulwich superstore to further investigate, and if necessary provide additional staff training, it said.
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NewsA third of grocery workers ‘struggle to cope’ with daily life, GroceryAid finds
The silver lining is that GroceryAid has been able to expand its support significantly to meet demand, accordng to its latest impact report
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Comment & OpinionWhy Andy Burnham is wrong to suggest vape shops are the villains
The prime minister has branded the vaping sector as ‘dodgy’, but it’s wrong to tar the entire industry with the same brush
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NewsMorrisons rolling out self-checkout AI tech to detect mis-scans
The Everseen technology videos shoppers and plays back their misscans and mistakes
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NewsFour men arrested in illegal meat factory bust in Dudley
The bust was made at an address in Dudley, near Wolverhampton, by the National Food Crime Unit, who worked with West Midlands Police, HMRC and representatives from the Home Office
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Comment & OpinionLidl’s scan & shop system works perfectly… I can’t believe it!
This is a discounter, with tighter margins to protect than Tesco, Sainsbury’s or Waitrose – and that’s what makes the experience so incongruous
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NewsAsda rolls out Auror crime tech across estate after London trial
The technology helped Asda recover more than £100,000 in stolen goods during a 10-week trial at 30 of its London stores
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NewsMet Police expands Auror retail crime reporting tech rollout
A pilot saw the number of shoplifters being brought to justice in the capital quadruple
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NewsForecourt Eye offers free crime reporting tool as fuel theft rises nearly 20%
The system is designed to enable operators to create and manage ‘police-ready’ reports of fuel theft and retail crime under one integrated system
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NewsTrading Standards crackdown removes 33 million illicit cigarettes from sale
The haul of illicit products also includes more than 800kg of hand rolling tobacco – with a combined revenue value of nearly £24m
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NewsShop theft falls 4% but retailers warn crisis remains underreported
The Office for National Statistics recorded 507,086 offences during the year ending March 2026, compared with the previous year when 530,324 offences were recorded by police
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NewsBolton tops list for illegal vape seizures as UK councils confiscate 1.3 million
Alternative nicotine product experts Northerner said the figure highlighted the widespread availability of illicit products in the market and raised concerns about their sale and distribution
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NewsAsda denies stores at risk despite ‘shambolic’ Mitie security guard consultation
Mitie has put more than 300 Asda security jobs at risk, in a move that GMB has labelled as ‘shambolic’
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NewsRepeat offenders strike retailers 300,000 times in six months
Facewatch said the rise in alerts to retailers reflected both the expansion of its network and persistent repeat offending
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NewsIllegal tobacco in a quarter of Liverpool convenience stores
An undercover operation commissioned by JTI UK found 18 of the 72 shops visited between 30 January and 3 February this year were selling illegal tobacco.