All articles by Steve Farrell – Page 2
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Comment & OpinionBudget 2025: How has food, drink and retail reacted to the news?
The budget was delivered in a manner that ‘falls short of standards that the House expects’, Rachel Reeves was told before she’d even started today
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NewsAldi to sell Christmas veg for 8p in ‘Super Six’ deal
The festive 8p range will be Aldi’s weekly promotional ‘Super Six’ fruit & veg lines from 18 December
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NewsTreasury confirms new national living wage rates from April 2026
The new rates have prompted a mixed response from trade bodies
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NewsSupermarkets facing business rates hike after Treasury u-turn
Supermarket chiefs had previously expressed confidence Rachel Reeves had ‘listened’ to their demands
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NewsChristmas dinner wars 2025: Lidl reveals feast for eight for £11.85
The prices equates to less than £1.50 per person including a Birchwood Whole Turkey
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NewsM&S reveals list of 500 ‘target locations’ for Food stores
The 500 ‘potential locations’ for new and renewed Food stores include areas where there is not yet an M&S
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NewsMartin Lewis investigation brings 30 retailers into line over online returns information
Home Bargains and The Range were among 30 retailers listing online returns policies that didn’t match the law, according to Lewis
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NewsCommunity Shop to open second store funded by McCain
The new store is set to open in Hull on 11 December, creating 12 local jobs
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NewsLidl set to open 1,000th UK store next week
Lidl is marking the occasion by giving away 1,000 ‘gingerbread store kits’ online
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NewsM&S partners with Coles to sell food in Australia
M&S products including Percy Pig and Colin the Caterpillar confectionery, British Shortbread and Luxury Gold Tea will be available in Coles stores across Australia from this Wednesday
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NewsSupermarket Income REIT makes first convenience store acquisitions
The investment fund said it increasingly saw opportunity in convenience
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NewsLidl calls for government to set plant-based sales targets
Amali Bunter, Lidl GB head of sourcing and ethical trade, said the supermarket wanted the government to ‘level the playing field’ by making other retailers follow its example of setting a plant-based protein sales target.
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Analysis & FeaturesChristmas ads 2025: who’s king of the non-HFSS festive ads?
Christmas ads came thick and fast this week, from Asda’s Grinch to John Lewis’s dewy-eyed 90s raver dad. But who did best? Our panel of judges decides
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NewsM&S appoints ex-Morrisons category director to head of trading role
The new hire had been at Morrisons since 2019, starting as a buying manager and then rising through head of trading and category director roles including in bakery and cakes
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NewsRetail footfall down for sixth consecutive month
The BRC said it showed the need for the Chancellor to support shops in the budget on 26 November
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NewsBoots recruits former John Lewis chief customer officer Charlotte Lock
Lock announced her departure from the John Lewis Partnership as chief customer officer in January, as reported by The Grocer at the time
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NewsLidl preparing to roll out scan and shop handsets
Lidl has filed a trademark in Europe and the UK for ‘Lidl & Go’, to apply to digital payment systems including ‘customer-operated electronic terminals available on-site in retail stores’
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NewsM&S shoppers braced for tax rises after Chancellor’s pre-budget speech
M&S chief Stuart Machin said feedback from customers showed Rachel Reeves’s speech had done nothing for confidence and instead left them ’very worried’
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NewsSupermarket chiefs in new inflation warning to Rachel Reeves
Reeves has been warned yet again by supermarket chiefs of the danger of driving up food prices if she heaps more tax on large shops