All articles by Steve Farrell – Page 2
-
NewsCDS Superstores secures £190m credit facility to fuel expansion
CDS Superstores, which also owners Homebase and Bathstore, said it would use the financing to continue its rollout of new format ‘The Range Superstores’, as well as enhancing AI search online
-
NewsM&S poaches Morrisons’ customer and loyalty director
McLellan, currently group customer, data and marketing director for Morrisons, will join M&S in the new year.
-
NewsBoots sale talks hit a stalemate after Westons lower bid
The Weston family, the British arm of which controls ABF and Fortnum Mason, is said to have reduced its offer after Australian pharma giant Sigma Healthcare abandoned a rival bid in June
-
NewsAldi wins four-year battle with Lidl over Horncastle store
Both had submitted bids to open stores in Horncastle, but planners decided two discount supermarkets would be too harmful to the town centre
-
Analysis & FeaturesSainsbury’s and Argos: a timeline from merger to sale
The tie-up promised to bring more choice for customers and more value for shareholders, but job losses followed in the integration and Argos became a drag on Sainsbury’s performance
-
NewsIceland boss urges CMA to get on with decision over Aldi and Lidl
The CMA was due to publish a decision on whether Aldi and Lidl should have to follow land competition rules in July
-
Analysis & FeaturesDo the numbers add up for Burnham’s business rates promises?
A question hangs over how much the funding plans can raise
-
NewsAldi makes new round of price cuts worth £100m
The latest round takes Aldi’s total investment in cutting prices so far this year to £300m across more than 1,000 products, according to the discounter
-
NewsLidl pays £25,000 claim after refusing shopper 5p Christmas veg
The shopper was accused of attempting to buy more than the permitted quota of packs of 5p shallots at Lidl’s Whalley Banks store in Blackburn in December last year
-
NewsOcado Group drops battle for £190m from M&S
The 2019 joint venture formed Ocado Retail and enabled M&S Food to sell online for the first time, in a £750m deal
-
Comment & OpinionIs Lidl’s Little Moons ‘dupe’ a sign the game has changed?
If Lidl’s version is a dupe, it is one that appears to have adopted relatively little in the way of packaging design cues from Little Moons
-
NewsAldi reveals list of ‘priority locations’ for new stores
The list runs to 160 locations across the UK
-
NewsAldi wins World Cup battle for social media attention
Aldi won 34% of ‘share of creator voice’ around the World Cup, compared with runner-up eBay’s 31%, according to research
-
NewsBrits have ‘already eaten too much fat and sugar for 2026’, claims Lidl
Saturday 25 July is ‘overshoot day’, when Britain will no longer have a chance of achieving annual progress towards targets designed to provide sustainable food systems for growing populations, according to the supermarket
-
NewsBurnham announces 20% business rates cut for pubs and music venues
The cut will be ‘fully funded’ by a tax clampdown on online marketplace sellers and businesses not making a ‘positive contribution’ such as vape shops
-
NewsLidl sparks row with Little Moons price comparison
Little Moons boss hit back: ‘In the words of L’Oréal… because we’re worth it’
-
NewsB&M fined £2m and two stores closed over mice infestations
The offences occurred at St Andrew’s Retail Park, Priory Square Shopping Centre and The Fort Shopping Park stores in Birmingham
-
NewsAldi average prices fall as rivals’ increase, data shows
Unit prices at Aldi have dropped steadily since quarter four of 2025, while those of each of the other five – Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Lidl and Morrisons – have dipped and then risen again in 2026
-
NewsGrocery inflation eases to slowest rate since 2024
The average household still spent an extra £156 on groceries over the past year, according to Worldpanel by Numerator
-
NewsPoundstretcher losses widen to £50m as like-for-like sales fall
Turnover rose by 16.9% to £247.4m thanks to the extended 15-month reporting period, but on a 12-month like-for-like basis sales fell by 7%, according to the accounts