All Sainsbury's Local articles
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NewsChristmas dinner veg more expensive after mults hike up prices
Several key veg lines such as carrots and potatoes have increased in price by more than 10% in the past month
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NewsSainsbury’s cuts plastic packaging from own brand toilet rolls
The switch is Sainsbury’s ‘biggest’ single plastic reduction initiative to date
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Comment and OpinionA convenience grocery price war is bubbling up
A new competitive front has opened up – great news for consumers
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NewsSupermarkets hit back at ‘unfair’ claims over food poverty
Which? and The Food Foundation accused retailers of failing to do enough to help shoppers suffering from food poverty
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NewsSainsbury’s launches value campaign across Local stores
The ‘Pocket Friendly Prices’ campaign is using new signage highlight value-tier household essentials
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NewsMilliways plastic-free gum secures first major supermarket listing
Milliways was launched in 2021 with the hope of taking on traditional, plastic-based gum brands
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NewsWilton launches duo of plastic-free laundry pods into grocery
The unique powdered format enabled the brand to use ‘much nicer ingredients that are much kinder to the environment’, it said
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Category ReportWhy snack bars are in great shape: category report 2023
While rules on in-store merchandising have taken the wind out of HFSS snacks, makers of cereal and protein bars are fighting fit
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NewsSainsbury’s to expand convenience store network after hitting £3bn in sales
Sales across its more than 800 c-stores grew 10% last year and were up 7% on pre-pandemic levels
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NewsPladis adds Wholistic snack bar duo under Go Ahead brand
The bars would ‘boost relevancy of the healthier snacking category among younger consumers’, said Pladis
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NewsAlcohol-free drinks and vegan food top Sainsbury’s Nectar purchases in 2022
Sainsbury’s released data on the shopping choices of 17.6 million members of its Nectar loyalty scheme
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NewsTesco supermarket-convenience price gap wider than rival Sainsbury’s
The price gap between Tesco’s larger stores and its Express format was 10.4% in November
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Comment and OpinionQuality business thinking is critical in times of rapid change. Here’s how to enable it
The pace of change is unlikely to slow, so we need to be deliberate about how we set ourselves up for quality thinking in response, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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NewsRav Garcha transforms former Sainsbury’s Local store to Nisa
The Midlands-based Nisa retailer, who now owns four stores, relaunched the site, which had been vacant for six months
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Comment and OpinionThere’s nothing stopping great-value dairy from continuing to delight consumers
Dairy is not only incredibly healthy, it is still amazing value given its credentials and relative to other alternatives
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Analysis and FeaturesSupermarket opening times on the day of the Queen’s funeral
19 September 2022 has been declared a public holiday in the UK meaning many shops are likely to amend their opening hours
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NewsACS appoints three new trading directors to its board
They are Darren Nickels, retail technology operations director at Henderson Technology, Rob George, customer director at McColl’s, and Spar retailer Susan Connolly
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NewsHousehold distruptor Wilton London to make supermarket debut
The eco-conscious supplier will roll four laundry SKUs into Sainsbury’s from next month
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Analysis and FeaturesHow Covid has changed the supermarkets’ property plans
Two years of Covid has transformed shopping patterns and left property plans in disarray. For some retailers, a new strategy is needed
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NewsWaitrose takes biggest hit to passing footfall in pandemic
Data analysts CACI used mobile phone location data to track average weekly footfall in the area immediately surrounding stores during the pandemic