All Discounters articles – Page 71
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NewsRussian discounter Mere aiming for 300 UK stores in 10 years
The hard discounter, which claims it will undercut Lidl and Aldi by 20%-30%, is determined to scale its UK presence
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NewsAldi complaint over Tesco ‘price match’ ad rejected by watchdog
Aldi complained about a Tesco press ad which appeared last July, as the UK’s biggest supermarket ramped up its latest marketing assault on the discounter
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NewsM&S releases new Colin the Caterpillar for Father’s Day
The limited-edition cake features an edible cape
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News‘Convenience discounter’ MaxiSaver eyes tripling of estate by year end
The retailer currently has eight stores in the Midlands, having first launched last August
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NewsAldi launches packaging made using plastic saved from the sea
The new packaging is recycled from waste plastic collected by communities in coastal areas across the world
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NewsIceland launches £5 pizza and booze meal deals for the Euros
A fiver buys two pizzas with either sides and dessert or drinks
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Grocer 33Lidl claims easy victory with 26 of 33 items cheapest
This week’s guest retailer was exclusively cheapest on 21 of those lines
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NewsPoundland begins selling online in selected postcode areas
Piloted for Poundland staff earlier this year, the service has now been opened up to customers
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NewsScrapping deposit return scheme for digital system ‘would save £3.5bn’
Research by Resource Future has suggested huge savings over the next decade with a digital scheme
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Comment & OpinionWith Aldi and Lidl winning share again normal service has resumed. Or has it?
Grocers and their suppliers are still benefiting from a market that’s anything but normal
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NewsWilko sales drop £107m as Covid-cautious shoppers stay away from high street
Sales fell 7.3% to £1.4bn in the year ended 30 January 2021, with like-for-like figures down 7.7%, according to the accounts
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NewsLidl sponsors ITV’s The Masked Dancer with its own masked character
In show idents, a dancer in a goose costume will challenge the audience to guess who they are using clues related to Lidl products
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NewsAldi challenges kids to come up with its next lorry design
The discounter is running a competiton as part of its Team GB sponsorship
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NewsPoundland opening first new convenience format Local stores
The Grocer revealed ‘Poundland Local’ was on the way last month
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Comment & OpinionWhy – and how – does Iceland still offer free delivery while rivals have stopped?
In the online shopping boom of the past 12 months, retailers have been cautiously adding delivery fees – except Iceland
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NewsAldi’s Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake returns - with new eyes
Intellectual property experts say changes to his appearance could have a bearing on M&S’s High Court trademark infringement claim
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NewsIceland rolling out same-day scheduled delivery nationwide
The frozen food retailer is set to offer same-day slots from 400 stores within the next few weeks, The Grocer can reveal
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NewsPoundland launching new arm for all charitable activities
The variety discounter has applied to trademark ‘Poundland Foundation’
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NewsTesco scraps Metro format blaming shift in customer habits
In August 2019, the supermarket announced it was carrying out a major overhaul of Metro
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NewsAldi launches in-store soft plastics recycling points
The new recycling bins have been introduced at 20 stores across Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Greater Manchester