All Discounters articles – Page 70
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Analysis & FeaturesSwift: what is it like inside Iceland’s new convenience store?
The first ‘Swift’ store opened in a high-footfall area in Newcastle yesterday, with Iceland MD Richard Walker indicating more are likely to follow
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NewsIceland to turn down business rates holiday extension
It follows criticism of Iceland for holding on to the relief for 2020-21 while a string of its rivals handed it back
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NewsIceland slated for voucher push after pocketing rates relief
A major rival has slammed Iceland for giving away ’20%’ discounts while arguing it cannot afford to repay business rates relief
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NewsLidl launches reverse-vending DRS machines in Scotland
The machines have been installed in stores in Hamilton, Edinburgh Granton, Glasgow Yoker and Dundee’s city centre
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NewsIceland MD Richard Walker named as Surfers Against Sewage chair
It follows three years of collaboration on campaign work between Surfers Against Sewage and the Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation
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NewsPoundland eyes another €20m saving through further rent talks with landlords
Costs are already down 36% on leases renegotiated in the last two years
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NewsMedia Bites 16 March: Thorntons, Iceland, Danone, Deliveroo
The decision by Thorntons to close all 61 of its physical stores after suffering through the Covid pandemic is covered by the papers this morning.
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Analysis & FeaturesHow retail parks have become prime grocery retail locations
Space has opened up in out-of-town retail parks – and shoppers feel more comfortable there. So food retailers are moving in. But will the trend last?
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NewsIceland launching new convenience format ‘Swift’
The new concept is ‘designed to provide a simple, easy-to-shop food store’
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NewsIceland pushing online growth with web-only ‘flash sales’
The ’online flash sales’ are being pushed on social media with links to a recently created dedicated page on Iceland’s website
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NewsIceland joins alliance to tackle ‘ghost’ fishing gear abandoned at sea
The supermarket has become a member of the Global Ghost Gear Initiative, a cross-sector alliance whose work includes training fishers to safely recover equipment from waters
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NewsAldi to fund 60 fresh produce management trainees
The move is in partnership with fresh produce management training scheme MDS, chaired by former GCA Christine Tacon
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NewsAldi ‘could contest some Sainsbury’s price matches’ on quality, says analysis
IPLC examined 65 products from Sainsbury’s ‘Aldi Price Match’ campaign, and found 15 fell short compared with the discounter’s on key ingredients
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NewsAldi to invest £22m in London expansion this year
The plans include nine new stores to open in the capital, the discounter said today
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NewsThe Range launches third-party marketplace
Around 3,000 third-party offerings are listed now on The Range’s website, in the culmination of plans revealed last year
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NewsSainsbury’s asks suppliers for pricing talks after Aldi Price Match move
Sainsbury’s introduced its Aldi Price Match – a pledge to match the discounter on 250 lines – in mid-February
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NewsOops prepares for store openings with new 100,000 sq ft warehouse
Oops, which launched last year, repackages and rebrands surplus frozen food from suppliers and manufacturers
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NewsPoundland slammed over rent arrears
The variety discounter, classed as an essential retailer, is said to have built up months of arrears on some branches
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NewsLidl opening three London stores in one day as part of £500m expansion push
The new branches include one on Putney High Street with a sales area of just 6,000 sq ft
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NewsIceland MD admits to ‘big mistake’ over palm oil deadline
The acknowledgement comes in Walker’s forthcoming book The Green Grocer