All articles by Jacqui Parr
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: EasyShop, Asda and budget concerns
EasyShop’s Stelios Haji-Ioannou is confident, but the likes of Amazon have struggled to establish a foothold in grocery
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InterviewsMeet the FSA’s standard bearer: Katie Pettifer
FSA chief Katie Pettifer says public trust in food is ‘precious’. But with food retail changing faster than ever, she explains why regulation must evolve
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News
Tesco to offer paid ‘Safe Leave’ for victims of domestic abuse
Tesco has become the first UK supermarket to guarantee paid leave for colleagues who are victims of domestic abuse.
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: food resilience, Aldi x Deliveroo, JBS court case
The Grocer’s Green Week coverage included dire warnings about food security, challenges for government and news of a major new intervention
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Health Summit friction, Asda growth and Diageo’s mid-strength move
Feathers were ruffled at The Grocer Health Summit, but there was real value in bringing together voices that rarely share the same stage
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Tesco tackles UPFs, Mounjaro mishap, inflation reprieve
As Tesco made a decisive move in the UPF debate, a Grocer reporter obtained Mounjaro and Christmas started to look less pricey for consumers
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Sainsbury’s KickStarter, Colman’s for sale and Gousto ready meals
The first rung on the career ladder is harder to reach than ever before. The government’s latest figures show 981,000 young people aged 16 to 24 are not in education, employment or training (NEET).
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s Picks: Sainsbury’s split from Argos, Asda growth and food security
No one was expecting this morning’s surprise announcement when we reported that Sainsbury’s has agreed to sell Argos
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Comment & OpinionIs food finally going to be treated as a national priority?
The question is not whether the UK’s food system is vulnerable to these changes, it is whether our government is serious about protecting it
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Comment & OpinionThe Healthy Thinking Diet: Sharry Cramond pours thought into self-help
The M&S marketing director extols the virtues of applying the principles of healthy eating and a good diet to the way we think
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: booze brands, Brexit and a Co-op bombshell
As grocery felt the strain of this week’s heatwave, we covered key stories about booze, bread and Brexit, among (much) more
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NewsUK supermarkets ‘stocking but not selling’ plant-based, warns report
While supermarkets have largely succeeded in getting plant-based products on to shelves, in-store activation and navigation lags behind
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Comment & OpinionMeal deals, membership, and the fight for the lunchtime £5
Yesterday Waitrose increased the price of its main meal deal by 10% to £5.50, making it the latest retailer to hike its pricing in one of grocery’s most keenly-fought battlegrounds
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Analysis & FeaturesHow can the 5 a day message be fixed to boost consumption?
After 23 years it’s seen as the target that ‘most people know but still fail to meet’ – so why isn’t 5 a day working, and how can it be improved?
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NewsAmazon Fresh advert banned for breaking HFSS junk food laws
Amazon is the latest grocery retailer to fall foul of the new HFSS advertising restrictions
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Comment & OpinionEditors picks: Food poverty, workforce crisis and The Chicken King
Three of the food system’s biggest pressures – workforce shortages, rising food poverty and complications around the packaging tax – all took the spotlight this week
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Comment & OpinionKnow your body: why Morrisons’ cancer campaign stands out
Morrisons wants shoppers to touch themselves in the shower. Could this be retail’s most effective cancer awareness campaign ever?
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Analysis & FeaturesHave meat alternatives just solved their price problem?
The price gap between meat and plant-based alternatives is closing. Is this the good news plant-based has been looking for?
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: big votes, Gold shortlists and the own-label surge
This week’s issue includes the latest on Southern Co-op’s merger, insight into the government’s support (or lack of) for the food industry and analysis of the growth of own label
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Southern Co-op merger latest, whisky tariffs, election promises
In the latest chapter of grocery’s very own soap opera, Southern Co-op has rejected an approach from the UK’s largest independent co-operative society, OurCoop, which appeared to offer an alternative to its proposed merger with the Co-op Group