Stores news – Page 36
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NewsM&S ‘bewildered’ after Michael Gove calls in Marble Arch development plan
The retailer plans to demolish the current 92-year-old building on 458 Oxford Street and replace it with a modern retail and office complex
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NewsAmazon chooses Sevenoaks for first checkout-free Fresh store outside London
The store is the 19th Amazon Fresh store to open in the UK, the first of which opened in Ealing in March last year
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NewsChallenger brand discovery platform Product Guru to launch physical concept store
The store, called Pop, will showcase challenger brands from several retail categories, with food and drink the focus for six days in September
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NewsGrocer Gold Awards 2022: Grocer 33 — availability award
Tesco makes it four years on the trot for availability
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NewsGrocer Gold Awards 2022: Grocer 33 – service award
Waitrose prevails on service despite supply woes
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NewsGrocer Gold Awards 2022: Grocer 33 - price award
Asda is cheapest in Grocer 33 battle for 25th consecutive year
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NewsPilgrims Choice gets packaging revamp for greater on-shelf appeal
The move is the brand’s biggest update since it changed the shape of its blocks to an oblong in 2020
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NewsWaitrose stores in London first to take part in John Lewis rental housing project
Waitrose’s parent company is set to build new housing at three proposed locations, including over the supermarket’s shops in Bromley and West Ealing, in London
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NewsLidl opens one of its biggest ever UK stores at 27,000 sq ft
The discounter has insisted it may have a “slightly bigger” store elsewhere in the UK but has not clarified where
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NewsM&S strengthens Northern Ireland supply chain with new local sandwich supplier
The new Around Noon deal will see M&S sell six new SKUs under the supplier’s Twelve brand
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NewsNew trademark reveals Lidl is still working on ‘Lidl Go’ concept
The plans may now be more modest than the scan-as-you-shop trials the discounter inadvertently leaked news of last year
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NewsTraditional shops paying ‘eight times more’ in business rates than online retailers
For every £100 earned by shops in Britain, £2.91 is payable in business rates, while for online retailers the figure is just 34p, according to Altus Group
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NewsCo-op invests £19m in pig pricing, and urges mults to do more on sourcing
The retailer has committed to pay its pig farmers above the cost of production, while also calling on other retailers to improve British sourcing
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NewsWaitrose to revamp deli counter offering with array of new lines
As part of the new launch, the supermarket will be ‘modernising the look and feel’ of counters in 33 of its stores
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NewsCapreolus launches British charcuterie range into Waitrose
Waitrose will be stocking three of the brand’s Great Taste Award winning products: Dorset Coppa, Dorset Chorizo and Dorset Air-Dried Beef
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NewsMorrisons trials dual-branded concept store for larger independents
Together with Morrisons is set to debut later this month at Guy Warner’s new 6,000 sq ft store in Upton-upon-Severn in Worcestershire
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NewsGovernment poised to row back on junk food advertising clampdown as well as volume promotions
The Grocer understands confirmation of the u-turn is due imminently, after a week of frenzied speculation about the future of the flagship obesity strategies
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NewsDrink dispenser Smart Soda using HFSS compliance to target convenience sector
The supplier offers vitamin-infused, flavoured sparkling alkaline waters and sodas made with plant-based natural sweetener, reduced British beet sugar or no sugar
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NewsTesco converting excess store space to flexible offices for hybrid workers
The supermarket is taking advantage of the pandemic-driven shift to home working
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NewsM&S defends Marble Arch store plans after government halts redevelopment
The retailer has claimed the renovation plans will “positively impact the environment”