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Comment & Opinion
Loyalty prices investigation: painstaking and pointless
The Competition & Markets Authority needs to be more accountable to the taxpayer with its Whichhunts
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Analysis & Features
How supermarkets are looking after their staff like never before
The pandemic changed the way we view work – and our health – forever. Today, supermarkets are offering better benefits, staff discounts, and pay packages than ever
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Comment & Opinion
Estrella Damm shares story of sun, beautiful people and beer
Damm is again a bit-part player in its own ad – but this time there is no big star to anchor it
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Analysis & Features
Will Labour’s worker reforms apply to the gig economy?
Labour’s ‘new deal for workers’ makes no mention of app couriers
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News
Aldi sells most free-range eggs of any UK supermarkets
The retailer overtook Tesco in the latest 12 week period, Kantar data shows
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CMA accused of ‘colossal waste of time’ over loyalty card probe
The CMA report looks at fuel prices and wider retailer profitability, as well as the findings from the probe it launched into loyalty cards in January
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Comment & Opinion
Cooking Buddies: Jamie Oliver’s nepo baby proves irritatingly good
There’s a special joy in seeing celebrity offspring suck. Sadly, Buddy Oliver doesn’t
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Analysis & Features
As inflation recedes, has the tide turned on discounter growth?
New figures show Aldi is now in negative growth, and variety discounters that once were riding high are also going backwards
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News
JLP wins approval to build 353 rental homes in store redevelopment
The plans were agreed yesterday by the London Borough of Bromley following 147 letters of support from local residents
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City snapshot: Drivers still paying too much at the pumps as high fuel prices cost motorist £1.6bn in 2023 - CMA
Fuel margins at supermarkets are double what they were in 2019, according to the competition watchdog
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Media Bites 26 July: Unilever, John Lewis, THG, BAT
Unilever’s first-half results get plenty of pick up in today’s papers
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Oatly upgrades growth forecasts as it makes ‘solid progress’
Revenues in the second quarter nudged up 3.2% to $202.2m, with “solid” volume growth in each of its divisions
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Comment & Opinion
Why supermarkets must scale up refillables at ‘frightening’ speed
Somebody had better tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves not to read the latest report by Wrap on the industry’s war on plastic
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News
Whitworths returns to pre-tax profit as sales boom
Whitworths is looking ahead to “an exciting year” after the dried fruit and nuts brand bounced back into the black on the back of double-digit sales growth
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City News: Unilever shares soar as turnaround picks up pace
Investors ignored missed sales forecast at Unilever in favour of big beats to margin improvement targets to send shares at the Hellmann’s and Magnum supplier soaring to the top of the FTSE 100 on Thursday
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UK supermarkets urge Defra to green-light deforestation law
Britain’s leading retailers told Defra secretary Steve Reed to press ahead with anti-deforestation regulation
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Asda rolls out new online ‘Store Assist’ picking technology
Asda said the solution was already “proving popular” with staff – 26,000 of whom had now been trained on 10,000 updated devices
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Pasta Evangelists to open 20 new sites in next five years
The company will open its first franchise site in Richmond, with a second coming shortly
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Greens Retail reaches 25th store milestone
It comes as the Scottish grocer, which is primarily supplied by Nisa, “scored a hat-trick” of store openings last month
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Danone and Microsoft unveil major AI partnership
The multiyear collaboration with the tech giant includes the creation of a Danone Microsoft AI Academy, tasked with improving staff AI literacy