All Discounters articles – Page 65
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NewsLidl pledges 85% of sales will be ‘healthy or healthier’ by 2025
The discounter is to use a bespoke nutrient profiling system developed by its nutrition teams to monitor progress
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NewsIceland trials plastic-free and ‘reduced plastic’ packaging for potatoes and fish
The frozen food specialist has begun using paper and cartonboard on a number of lines
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Range PreviewRange preview: Lidl Hortus gin festival summer 2021
The discounter is hosting its gin festival featuring a new Hortus World Botanicals collection
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NewsSuperdrug and Savers accounts reveal impact of lockdowns
Superdrug saw high street footfall plummet 75% during the first national lockdown, while Savers saw a 60% decline
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NewsAldi funds Kenyan vegetable packhouse to help smallholder farmers
The packhouse, in Cherangany, Trans Nzoia County, has been built in partnership with international NGO Farm Africa
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NewsLidl sets 2022 carbon neutral target, including new climate expectations for suppliers
Lidl will ’oblige suppliers’ to develop and work to their own targets, it said
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NewsPandemic delays new store fitouts for discounter Mere
Mere UK business development manager Aleksandr Chkalov this week told The Grocer he had initially envisaged it opening last year
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Comment & OpinionOnline is the new convenience. Mults have to keep up with the 10-minute delivery model
The major supermarkets need to work fast to succeed as shoppers shift to less profitable online sales, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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NewsLidl encourages shoppers to make 'healthier swaps'
The trial involved on-shelf signage pointing customers to ‘a range of healthier alternative products that are easy to make and at the same price or less’
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NewsMere begins taking deliveries as first UK store prepares to open
With only finishing touches remaining for the store fit-out, it’s understood the finalised opening date depends on how quickly the rest of the stock is delivered
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NewsSainsbury’s to invest £50m in cutting prices across fresh, meat and dairy
The retailer said 60 of its core popular products are set to drop in price by the end of the month
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NewsIceland uses new ‘fridgeable’ labels to target households with no freezer
The labels will mean millions of families who don’t have a freezer can nevertheless buy frozen food, according to Iceland
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NewsLidl and Aldi ‘will be 12-24 months late hitting store opening targets’
Trading overlap with their own and each other’s stores will hamper progress, say retail location analysts
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NewsLidl publishes wish list of new UK locations as it opens 860th UK store
’We are calling on developers and landlords up and down the country to help find potential sites,’ said Lidl GB CEO Christian Härtnagel
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NewsSuperdrug rolls out ‘Store Insider’ to connect online shoppers with store staff
The ‘Superdrug Store Insider’ service aims to provide online shoppers with the same level of customer service and advice they could expect when visiting a shop
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News‘Very few’ places where Mere can open stores without being near an existing discounter
However, there are over 250 locations suitable for the Russian retailer if it doesn’t mind being near a Lidl or Aldi
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Comment & OpinionThe food industry must do more than pay lip service to racial equality
Some supermarkets have put in work, but most manufacturers have remained silent, says The Black Farmer founder Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones
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NewsAldi removing single-use plastic from all own label teabags
The discounter is to swap the teabags’ oil-based plastic sealing for biodegradable materials following trials
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat could Russian discounter Mere mean for the UK?
With no warehouses, few staff and products on pallets, could Mere resonate with British shoppers?
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NewsSurplus food discounter Oops sees surge in stock originally destined for EU
Food originally destined for Europe is making up 25% of Oops’ stock, as major manufacturers and suppliers struggle with Brexit red tape and tariffs