Steve Farrell
Steve is deputy news editor at The Grocer.
He’s responsible for covering online grocery and the discounters, and for editing The Grocer’s analysis features. He’s an experienced journalist who has contributed to a range of national newspapers including The Mail on Sunday.
Follow Steve on Twitter: @Steve_Farrell_
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- 01293 846613
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- steve.farrell@thegrocer.co.uk
NewsHome Bargains outperforming B&M as revenues rise 15%
Home Bargains saw revenues grow by 15% compared with B&M’s UK revenue growth of 8.7%
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Lidl opens largest distribution centre to date in Scotland
Around 600 employees have already relocated to the new £70m warehouse in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire…
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Poundland adds ‘mini’ Pep&Co ranges to smaller stores
The mini shops in shops are being trialled from today in five stores
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M&S announces string of senior new hires to boost food business
The new recruits will report to food commercial director George Wright
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Calum Melville faces probe into Bargain World links
Scotland’s insolvency service is investigating whether Melville breached the terms of an undischarged bankruptcy
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Supermarkets sourcing tea from ‘inhumane’ Assam plantations, finds Oxfam
Interviews with workers on 50 tea plantations in Assam, India, found most had no access to clean drinking water
- Comment & Opinion
Do Poundland’s latest ‘shops in shops’ point to an identity crisis?
Poundland is looking to become a weekly grocery destination, but its name may work against it
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Lidl signals plans for online launch on ‘new platform’
Plans include developing a new platform to ‘drive online sales’
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Poundland launches frozen and fresh food offering
The move is in partnership with Yorkshire-based fresh and frozen retailer Fultons Foods
- Analysis & Features
Range preview: Iceland Christmas 2019
Here’s our pick of the products Iceland will have in store this Christmas
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Former Tesco international CEO Trevor Masters to take over as Pepco MD
Masters has spent more than 30 years at Tesco, most recently as CEO of international operations
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Lidl to push Greater Manchester expansion with 10 new stores in three years
The plans include a new ‘flagship’ Manchester store at City Tower, Piccadilly Gardens, due to open on Thursday next week
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Iceland adds optional receipts to tills in move to save paper
Iceland shoppers now have the option of declining a receipt
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Asda to launch new membership-free cash & carry operation
The first store will have separate branding to Asda and aims to be a cross between Costco and Walmart’s members’ warehouse
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Bargain World ceases trading after five months
The company’s two existing stores closed this week
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Who is Ken Murphy? The new Tesco CEO replacing Dave Lewis
Formerly CCO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, the 52-year-old Irishman started working aged 15 in his dad’s shop
- Analysis & Features
Is the future for Poundland a multi-price model?
A multi-price model was blamed for Poundworld’s collapse last year. Now Poundland is moving in the same direction
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Sainsbury’s scraps plastic Nectar cards for new members
The move follows a trial of the new app in Wales and the Isle of Wight
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Pret extends coffee cup recycling scheme across the UK
Paper coffee cups from any high street shop will be accepted, to be turned into stationery and packaging…
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No more ‘naughty elf’ as Poundland rolls out ‘family friendly’ replacement
This Christmas, Poundland will sell a new ‘family-friendly’ version that won’t feature in a repeat of last year’s naughty …
