All articles by Steve Farrell – Page 5
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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
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NewsAldi launches ‘colleague shops’ in its warehouses to tackle food waste
The shops in Aldi’s 11 UK regional distribution centres will allow staff to buy food that is still safe to eat but can no longer be sold in stores
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NewsM&S’s Italian meal range relaunch delivers 25% uptick in volume sales
Value sales are up by 35% year on year since 10 September, when the 49 new or upgraded Italian meals landed in stores
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NewsLidl GB chief: Christmas ads are in ‘a lot of uncertainty’ this year
Under new voluntary restrictions this year, TV ads before the 9pm watershed must not show products high in fat, sugar or salt, which also face a total blackout online
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NewsWaitrose criticised for axing autistic volunteer
Charity worker Frances Boyd from Stockport said her 27-year-old son Tom Boyd had done over 600 hours of work experience at a store in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester
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NewsLidl brings back ‘mystery boxes’ containing £100 of goods for £20
A limited run of 1,500 of the boxes is to go on sale at 10am this Friday
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NewsM&S chief Stuart Machin sets out budget demands for Rachel Reeves
‘Over the last year, retail has been hit by an alphabet soup of taxes and regulations,’ said Machin