Tesco news and analysis
Tesco is the largest supermarket in the UK. With more than 3,000 retail stores in Britain, it operates across Extra hypermarkets, supermarkets and in the convenience space, with the Express format. It also runs the market-leading customer loyalty programme Tesco Clubcard. Online business, Tesco.com, offers home delivery and click & collect services. The Grocer runs Tesco news, analysis, insight and opinion.
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: supermarkets struggle for growth, Tesco supplier row, delivery robots
With the rumour mill in overdrive over consolidation in the grocery sector, we look at why they’re struggling for growth. Plus Tesco’s supplier row, Diageo’s innovation shake-up and delivery robots
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NewsTesco targets more than 28,000 temps in festive recruitment drive
The roles will mainly involve working in the supermarket giant’s Extra superstores and Express convenience stores
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Comment & OpinionTesco’s confidence rests on more than just market share
In a grocery market where growth is increasingly hard won, Tesco is demonstrating it has more tricks up its sleeve
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NewsBooker in ‘very healthy place’ despite sales fall, says Tesco CFO
Tesco blamed the ongoing decline in tobacco sales and lapping ‘exceptionally’ strong growth in foodservice last year for Booker’s results
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NewsKen Murphy defends Tesco’s CPI negotiations stance
Tesco is determined to prevent ‘unjustified’ cost price increases
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NewsTesco nudges profit guidance higher despite ‘uncertain backdrop’
UK like-for-like sales slowed from 1.8% in the first quarter to grow just 1.5% in the first half
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NewsSausage brand Triples launches ‘Porky’ sausages
Available in ‘Porky’ flavour, the high-protein (29g per pack) and ‘natural gluten-free’ sausages contain 85% British, Red Tractor assured pork
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Comment & OpinionSainsbury’s, Morrisons, Tesco & Majestic: inside grocery’s consolidation rush
Sainsbury’s explored a Morrisons merger before walking away and Tesco is circling Majestic Wine. What does it tell us about where the grocery sector is heading?
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NewsTesco tech boss Guus Dekkers announces retirement
Tech boss Dekkers is to retire from the supermarket at the end of the year
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NewsTesco Lincoln store handed one-star hygiene rating after food waste left rotting
Inspectors from City of Lincoln Council visited the Tesco Extra store on Wragby Road on 15 July after receiving complaints
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NewsTesco in the race to buy Majestic Wine
The UK’s biggest retailer is among a list of bidders weighing up an offer in an auction of Majestic, according to Sky News this weekend
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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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NewsTesco reveals brand winners of its 2026 Accelerator programme
The nine brands have been selected to support Tesco’s ambition to be first for innovation
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Analysis & FeaturesHow rivalries are being set aside for food redistribution
A new ’mission control’ set up to allow supermarkets and suppliers to integrate supply chains, so they can co-operate on routes for surplus food, is allowing trucks from traditionally bitter rivals to literally share the load
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NewsCo-op appoints new managing director of retail
The new hire will be focused on accelerating Co-op’s food retail growth, strengthening the customer proposition, and supporting innovation across stores and digital channels
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NewsTesco follows M&S with a Finest Just X ingredients meat range
The Finest Just X Ingredients range has been made in response to rising consumer demand for products made with fewer ingredients
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NewsZombie launches 1.7 metre fruit strings range in Tesco
Stringz was designed to combine the ‘fun and playability of traditional string confectionery with a fruit-based proposition’
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NewsTesco makes additional 60,000 Christmas slots available
‘Christmas should be all about spending time with family and friends, not worrying about getting the big shop done’
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NewsMorrisons cuts price of meal deal by 10p in food-to-go expansion
It makes Morrisons’ meal deal the ‘cheapest on the market’, the supermarket said
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NewsTesco becomes ‘game-changing’ backer for Henry Dimbleby’s £100m health plan
As well as a £20m investment in Dimbleby’s Bramble Fund, Tesco said it was working with the Leon restaurant founder on a new Tesco-Bramble Innovation Partnership