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Comment & OpinionAldi’s £50 giveaway won’t help sales, but it shows what’s going wrong
Without a loyalty scheme, Aldi lacks a way to connect with customers directly
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NewsAldi giving away a £50 voucher a day in July and August
Aldi is billing its latest voucher competition as its way of helping families with the added costs of looking after children during the school holidays
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NewsB&M appoints new finance chief to join from Asda
B&M has found its new permanent CFO in Atheeq Akbar, after the resignation of interim CFO Helen Cowling in April 2026
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NewsAsda and Aldi the two worst-performing supermarkets for sales growth
Asda was the only supermarket to suffer a sales decline in Worldpanel’s latest data, while Aldi put in the weakest growth
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NewsUK retail parks ‘effectively full’ after Aldi and Lidl expansion
The vacancy rate stands at just 1.8% once obsolete units and those empty for more than three years are excluded, according to Savills
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NewsAldi reveals locations of next 16 new stores
Areas in line to get a new Aldi over the coming months include Watford and Hoxton in London, Hattersley in Greater Manchester, and Balsall Common in the West Midlands
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Comment & OpinionWhy did Poundstretcher need a restructure and what’s the plan to turn it around?
Two years after its 2024 takeover, Poundstretcher is still in choppy waters, only narrowly being saved from administration last week
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Comment & OpinionOwn label has overtaken branded innovation – and that’s not something to celebrate
The system is not designed for experimentation – it demands certainty and therefore incentivises brand-tweaking, not innovation, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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NewsPoundstretcher restructure approved, saving chain from collapse
‘Today, our company is in a stronger position to continue investing in our stores, our people and the overall customer experience,’ said Poundstretcher CEO Andy Atkinson
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NewsCo-op and Filco unite against Lidl’s Llantwit Major store plans
The retailers’ concerns were heard at a public inquiry at the Civic Offices in Barry last week
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NewsLidl backs British berry growers with £500m investment
The investment reflects the value of sourcing contracts with British-based berry suppliers over the next five years with the discounter signing new five-year agreements
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Comment & OpinionYour Voice: Morrisons, EPR and dynamic pricing
I worked on the Morrisons brand 15 years ago. Back then, the business had a distinctive advantage in grocery retail: its vertically integrated model
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Grocer 33Tesco Chester store manager on its refit, reopening and competing with Aldi and Lidl
‘Customers literally poured in’: Tesco Chester on life after an 11-week refit
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Grocer 33Tesco is Chester’s best supermarket in seven-way mystery shop
The only store this week to record a perfect score on availability, Tesco was also praised for its ‘really good range’ and ‘pleasant and helpful’ staff
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Grocer 33Lidl’s loyalty push makes it cheapest for barbecue shop
Lidl’s well-timed loyalty price promos gave it the exclusively cheapest sausages and beef quarter pounders
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NewsB&M shares rally on signs of turnaround progress
Investors raced to get back into B&M this week as early signs of progress in the embattled group’s turnaround plan led to a share price rally
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NewsLidl invests £250m to cut prices on over 1,000 products
Since the start of the year, the discounter has reduced prices on more than 1,000 products
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NewsAldi to upgrade 25 stores across the UK this summer
Locations set to benefit from upgrades include London, Aberdeen, Nottingham and Manchester
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NewsAldi opens ‘Britain’s largest supermarket warehouse’
The 1.3m sq ft distribution centre in Bardon, Leicestershire, is 100,000 sq ft larger than Lidl’s Luton DC, which it hailed as its biggest in the world when it opened in 2023
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NewsAldi makes £60m round of price cuts on popular summer items
Savings include a 50p drop in the price of British beef steaks such as its 30 Day Matured British Rump Steak, now £4.69