All articles by Steve Farrell – Page 2
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NewsAldi goes live on Deliveroo
The new courier-picking model will help the discounter keep prices low, according to Aldi UK CEO Giles Hurley
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Comment & OpinionLoyalty schemes: Lidl is flying, but does Aldi boss have a good point?
In one corner, Aldi’s UK chief Giles Hurley has said loyaly schemes are ‘duping’ customers; in the other, Lidl is beating Aldi on every metric of sales growth, thanks partly to its loyalty scheme
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NewsLidl boss answers Aldi chief over loyalty discounts
‘Listening to our customers is the most important thing,’ said Lidl GB CEO Ryan McDonnell
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NewsPoundstretcher opening wholesale clearance store at head office
The warehouse is ‘stacked high’ with ‘case stock at knockout prices’, according to Poundstretcher CEO Andy Atkinson
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NewsAldi names locations of 24 stores to open by Christmas
The discounter is opening stores at a rate of about 40 a year
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NewsBoots celebrating 30 million items recycled in packaging return scheme
The Recycle at Boots scheme rewards shoppers with £5-worth of Advantage Card points when they return five eligible packaging items and spend £10 in store
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NewsBoots’ owner ‘close to securing £7bn deal to sell the retailer’
A deal to sell Boots to the Weston family could be reached as soon as next week, according to reports
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NewsRetail paying 72p per £1 in business taxes, finds BRC analysis
The BRC and UKHospitality called on Chancellor John Healey to remove high street retail and hospitality businesses from the business rates high-value multiplier in the budget
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NewsPoundland bosses joined by Andy Bond in management buyout talks
A team formed by Poundland leadership and Andy Bond, the former CEO of Asda and Pepco Group, is in advance talks over a management buyout funded by one of the bidders in the auction for Poundland
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Comment & OpinionAldi on Deliveroo: a logical step or sign of weakness?
‘We always want to meet customers where they want to shop,’ says Aldi chief Giles Hurley. But that’s not what Aldi is known for, unless that place is one of its stores
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NewsAldi chief claims rivals are ‘duping customers’ with loyalty discounts
Giles Hurley used Aldi’s annual results as a new opportunity to ‘call out’ rivals’ loyalty discounts as ‘perceived rather than real’
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NewsPoundland hails return to like-for-like sales growth in Q4
The trading update comes with Poundland owner Gordon Brothers in talks to sell the variety discounter
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NewsLidl commits to supporting five million people in ‘hyper-localised’ campaign
It comes after warnings that pockets of severe deprivation – often streets away from visible affluence – were being missed by supermarkets taking a broad brush approach to charitable efforts
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NewsM&S mocked by campaign group over ‘freshly baked’ claim
The group, which campaigns for a statutory legal definition of ‘real bread’, has mocked the retailer over claims made in its announcement of a new store at Heathrow Terminal 5 last month
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NewsAldi begins handling produce at ‘UK’s largest automated DC’
The first outbound pallets of fruit & veg left the site on 17 September, Aldi revealed today
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NewsM&S Food ‘flying’ but fashion still ‘hungover’ from cyberattack
The retailer’s grocery market share has soared from 4.1% to 4.5% since the end of March, a rate that “even M&S must be surprised by”, according to investment bank Peel Hunt
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Comment & OpinionHas high protein ‘jumped the shark’ with Lidl’s new meat range?
Is it the latest sign we have reached peak protein? Or is there a genuine case for Lidl’s ‘high-protein meat range’?
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NewsLidl and chef Miguel Barclay devise £7 weekly supper plan for students
However, students will need to plan meals and avoid waste carefully to achieve the price point
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NewsAldi donates 2.1 million meals during school summer holidays
The donations were the result of Aldi’s work with Neighbourly, the redistribution organisation that routes surplus food from supermarkets to local charities across the country daily
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NewsM&S adds dozens of new meat and fish lines for midweek family shop
The retailer has launched 30 fish products and 52 lines in meat & poultry