All Supermarkets articles – Page 167
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NewsTesco trials removal of cardboard packaging from toothpaste brands
Tesco has already removed packaging from its own brand toothpaste products, since November last year, which it said saved 55 tonnes of cardboard a year.
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NewsTrevor Strain quits as management upheavals continue at Morrisons
His departure is the latest in a series since Morrisons was taken over by private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice last October
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Comment & OpinionWhat Asda has learned from its sustainability store trials
Asda has learned a lot about how to operationalise a completely different way of retailing, says director of sustainable commercial activities Susan Thomas
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Comment & Opinion‘They’re using us as a first-stop shop.’ How Aldi is changing the way we shop
Aldi’s UK & Ireland boss said the retailer was seeing ‘unprecedented’ changes in shopping behaviour
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NewsAldi boss admits store opening programme more challenging than expected, as it misses target
The discounter was aiming to have 1,000 UK stores by 2022 but currently has only 970, with another 16 to be opened this year
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NewsMorrisons announces price cuts across 150 popular food and drink products
Morrisons said the 150 products featured in the initiative made up nearly 6% of its total volume sales
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NewsCity snapshot: UK profits plunge at Aldi as investment in price hits bottom line
Aldi suffered a near 80% drop in operating profits in 2021 as sales flatlined ahead of a strong rebound in growth in 2022. Elsewhere, Alan Jope to retire from Unilever, Sainsbury’s scraps property sale, updates and Finsbury Food Group and Chapel Down and all the rest of the latest news from the City
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Grocer 33Asda Cheltenham: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘There’s lots of brilliant moments at Asda. Probably one is working with some of my mentors over the years’
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Grocer 33Inflation numbers less scary in latest basket as Asda comes in cheapest
On average, supermarket prices were up 9.6% compared with the same week in 2021 while prices edged up by just 0.9% month on month
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Grocer 33Helpful staff boost scores as Asda Cheltenham lands the winning spot
Our shopper praised the “friendly, polite and helpful” service and “easy to shop” store
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NewsAldi rolling out soft plastic collection points to nearly all stores
Aldi said it expected to collect up to 1,000 tonnes of plastic a year once the bins were installed in over 800 stores
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NewsMorrisons launches new advertising service for suppliers
Morrisons Media Group will act as a full-service internal advertising agency team
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NewsAlpro bears brunt of price hikes across dairy alternatives
Some key dairy alternative lines have seen price increases of almost a fifth since August
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NewsLidl set to topple Aldi as highest-paying UK supermarket with new minimum hourly rate
Lidl has become the latest supermarket to give workers a second rise this year
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NewsAldi winning share from supermarket online operations
Online made up 11.6% of the market in the 12 weeks to 4 September – its lowest share since June 2020 – while accounting for 19.4% of the spend that switched from Tesco to Aldi over the period
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NewsSainsbury’s opens pop-up store with free frozen food to reduce waste
Everything in the store is frozen, including fruit and vegetables, dairy, meat and baked goods
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NewsCity snapshot: Shoppers pull back supermarket spending to tackle cost-of-living crisis
Shoppers reined in spending at supermarkets following the end of the summer holidays, according to new research this morning. Plus, LXi REIT confirms talks with Sainsbury’s over £500m sale-and-leaseback deal, Tesco makes new board appointment, and full-year results from Supermarket Income REIT and Egale Eye Solutions.
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Comment & OpinionAs Aldi takes its place in a new big four, where is it going wrong for Morrisons?
It’s true Aldi has benefited from new store openings. But that’s a product of a winning formula
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NewsAldi taking sales from Lidl as inflation piles pressure on retailers and shoppers
Some £8.1m of spend switched from Lidl to Aldi in the 12 weeks to 4 September
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NewsLondon’s biggest food charity warns industry supplies are running low
The Felix Project took over the running of FareShare’s London operations in 2020, after joining its network