All articles by Steve Farrell – Page 88
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NewsSupermarkets puzzled over Poundstretcher selling their own-label products
Products including Aldi and Co-op own-label soy sauce and Tesco and Morrisons toothpaste have turned up in Poundstretcher stores
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NewsPoundland launches alcohol range in latest transformation step
The booze ‘shops in shops’ are offering branded wines, gin, rum, vodka, ready-mixed drinks, lagers, ciders and real ales
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NewsHome Bargains to introduce traffic lights at store entrances
Home Bargains joins Aldi in introducing traffic lights at store entrances to control shopper numbers during the pandemic
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Comment & OpinionWhy click & collect makes more sense for Aldi than Deliveroo tie-up
Aldi is trialling a click & collect service at a Manchester store
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NewsAldi launches first click & collect trial
The trial has been launched initially for staff but is set to be extended to customers within weeks
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NewsAldi starts selling loose fresh produce by weight using new checkout scales
It means the new lines, including bananas, bramley apples, carrots, sprouts, mushrooms and leeks, can be priced per kilo
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News125,000 retail jobs lost so far in 2020, according to report
Retail jobs have been shed at a rate of 15,700 a month, according to figures from the Centre for Retail Research
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NewsHaribo disappears from Tesco shelves in price war negotiations
Tesco’s price war with Aldi has been blamed for the disappearance
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NewsIceland links with Uber Eats for 20-minute delivery amid major online expansion
Iceland is also looking to launch same-day delivery more widely, MD Richard Walker said as the supermarket revealed its online expansion had created 3,000 new jobs
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NewsAldi launches concentrated cleaning products in recyclable bottles
The move stands to save an estimated 550 tonnes of single-use plastic a year, according to the discounter
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NewsIceland steps up support for Marcus Rashford’s food poverty campaign with free frozen veg bags
Shoppers using Healthy Start vouchers at Iceland will be offered a £1 bag of frozen veg for free from 11 September
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NewsJohn Boumphrey appointed new Amazon UK country manager
Boumphrey will take over from Doug Gurr, who is due to step down in November
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NewsCo-op trials zero-emission app-based deliveries via Pinga
The retailer is offering a range of 500 products on a smartphone app called Pinga from five of its London stores
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Comment & OpinionWhy sponsoring Great British Bake Off 2020 is a hole in one for Aldi
The deal will feed three key metrics Aldi wants to drive: its Britishness, quality and range
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NewsLidl rolls out app-based loyalty scheme offering discounts and more
The app-based rewards scheme give users discounts on shopping as well as partner services including Sky TV
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NewsAldi takes over as sponsor for new series of The Great British Bake Off
The discounter hopes to underpin its quality credentials as sponsor of the 11th series of the show
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NewsCross-party MP group joins the BRC in demanding new laws to protect shopworkers
The 11 MPs have signed a new ‘Shopworkers’ Protection Pledge’ launched by the BRC
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NewsGreenpeace sets supermarkets a 50% plastic reduction target by 2025
A 35% reduction could be achieved by focusing on just 13 of the worst-offending categories, the report claims
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NewsWaitrose.com turnover at £1bn ‘run rate’, says James Bailey
It puts Waitrose.com on course to hit a target announced in May last year of tripling its turnover to become a £1bn business within three years
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NewsFamily pays tribute to fmcg industry stalwart and former Whitworths CEO Stephen Price
Price spent over 50 years working in the food and drink industry, including a period as Whitworths Group CEO