All articles by Steve Farrell – Page 103
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NewsAsda disputes GMB claims it is threatening to sack 12,000
The union GMB had accused Asda of being poised to sack 12,000 workers just before Christmas
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NewsOxfam delivers petition urging Lidl to make human rights improvements
Earlier this year, Lidl came bottom in Oxfam’s annual ranking of six of the UK’s biggest supermarkets
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NewsLabour shortages putting pressure on supermarkets to raise warehouse pay
Shortage means workers can pick and choose, while DCs are having to relax job requirements, says leading recruiter
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NewsPoundland to roll out new price points to all stores next month
All 800 Poundland stores across the country are to get the new multiple price points in time for Christmas
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NewsGrocemania expands out of London with dozens of new retailers
New symbol retailers include a Nisa, Costcutter and Simply Fresh stores
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NewsM&S to open family-friendly Food Hall store in Nottingham
The Food Hall is likely to take the new format that M&S introduced in August at its Hempstead Valley store in Kent
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NewsBorough Market links with Good Sixty to create online offering
It is claiming to be the first fresh produce market in the UK to offer delivery and click & collect online
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NewsOriginal Poundworld founders open ‘UK’s biggest pound shop’
The 12,000 sq ft Bradford store is the latest by new chain One Below, founded by father and son Chris Edwards Sr and Jr…
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NewsLabour shortages will see DCs ‘struggle’ after Brexit
Wayne Brophy, managing director of Cast UK, said there was an across-the-board labour shortage in supply chain, logistics and warehouses
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NewsThe Range serves up Iceland meals at its Paignton branch café
Diners can then choose from the Iceland Luxury frozen ready meals range available to buy in-store
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NewsDeliveroo signs up scores of convenience stores and off licences
New partners include Costcutter, Budgens, Nisa and Best One retailers, plus hundreds of non-affiliated independents
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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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NewsLidl 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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NewsPoundland 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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NewsM&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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NewsCalum 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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NewsSupermarkets 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
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Comment & OpinionDo 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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NewsLidl signals plans for online launch on ‘new platform’
Plans include developing a new platform to ‘drive online sales’
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NewsPoundland launches frozen and fresh food offering
The move is in partnership with Yorkshire-based fresh and frozen retailer Fultons Foods