All Store of the week articles
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Grocer 33Asda Isle of Wight manager on seeing off rivals ahead of Aldi's arrival
Keenan Knight tells The Grocer about swapping Morrisons for Asda his team’s sense of togetherness and the challenges thrown up by running a store on the Isle of Wight
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Grocer 33‘Great leaders create more leaders’: Asda Southgate boss on winning affluent shoppers
Store manager Yamoah Kusi-Mensah on shouting about value to win over a wealthy catchment, fixing availability with ‘Ops Clock’ and his ambition to give Southgate an M&S-style feel
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Grocer 33Sainsbury’s Brookwood’s deputy manager: our colleague base is our point of difference
Jonathan Sellen tells The Grocer how the store wins trade from its more upmarket competition, why innovation is Sainsbury’s hidden weapon and what’s changed most during his 22 years in retail
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Grocer 33Tesco Lincoln’s Chris Pettinger on keeping standards high with fierce competition
‘We’re always being compared to other offers, which is why we have to be outstanding all of the time. We’re very well armed to fight our corner’
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Grocer 33Waitrose’s Frank Young on winning spend in the home of Booths
‘Our range is definitely a draw and our USP is that we will always give fantastic service’
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Grocer 33Waitrose’s Luke Pryce on managing the ‘convenience store on steroids’
‘We are technically a full-line supermarket, but we have no car park so it’s pretty much all basket or small-trolley shop – walk in, walk out’
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Grocer 33Morrisons GSM Santok Singh on his ‘clean, clear’ Tamworth store
Singh believes Morrisons’ new Unbeatable Prices price match will be a ‘game-changer’
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Grocer 33Asda Hereford’s store manager on ‘the underdog’s’ turnaround
Craig Commander’s Hereford store is an example of what “Asdaness” looks like at its best
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Grocer 33How Waitrose Lymington runs smoothly despite New Forest wildfires
Deputy store manager Lyndsey Nelms says Waitrose Lymington, with its spacious aisles and ‘lovely’ 183-strong team is by far her favourite
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Grocer 33Waitrose online director Laura Burbedge on ‘treating up’ and extending hours
‘We have a dedicated team who are continuously analysing and refining the search function. Search is the easiest way for a customer to build a basket, so it’s a constant and sustained effort to make sure it’s better’
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Grocer 33Tesco Hatfield’s store manager on availability, service and life near HQ
‘This is an awfully busy, important and opinion-forming store for Tesco. HQ is just down the road’
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Grocer 33How Morrisons Canning Town fought off Lidl
The Canning Town store has a diverse commuter trade and the busiest on-demand channel in the company, taking £75,000 a week on average
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Grocer 33Asda Weymouth: the seaside store that’s ‘busier than Christmas’
Wayne Bailey’s superstore in Weymouth shows that despite the company’s recent struggles, Asda can still deliver a brilliant shopping trip
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Grocer 33Store of the week: Interview with Tesco Folkestone store manager Paul Bennett
’It’s the toughest environment in terms of competition that I’ve experienced in my 35 years in retail’
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Events & AwardsThe Grocer Gold Awards 2026: Store manager of the year
Summons fosters high risk, high reward at Norwich Morrisons store
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Grocer 33Nicola Sroka-Flannigan on leading Tesco’s flagship Glasgow store
‘This is the biggest store Tesco has in Glasgow at nearly 100,000 sq ft. We’re in the city centre, in the middle of a retail park, which gives us high footfall’
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Grocer 33Waitrose Swindon’s store manager on trading during a World Cup and a heatwave
‘What’s noticeable is how much on-demand kicks in around the England games. Families are definitely coming together to enjoy our food and drink’
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Grocer 33Sainsbury’s Worcester manager on World Cup spending and winning in the frozen aisle
Ben Jones, store manager Sainsbury’s Worcester St Johns Superstore, on walking in the customer’s shoes, World Cup trade and why frozen is Sainsbury’s new point of difference
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Grocer 33Morrisons Croydon manager on running the supermarket's 'busiest' online store
A mere five years since she joined Morrisons’ graduate scheme, the 26-year-old store manager is now 10 months into running its critical Croydon store in London
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Grocer 33Tesco Chester store manager on its refit, reopening and competing with Aldi and Lidl
‘Customers literally poured in’: Tesco Chester on life after an 11-week refit