All Supermarkets articles – Page 20
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News
Booths enjoys ‘record’ Christmas sales as customers buy more festive staples
Demand for a ‘very traditional British Christmas’ led customers to spend more, Booths said
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Category Report
Ready meals & soups trends 2024: Taking on the restaurants
Contrary to current grocery trends, brands are beating own label in ready meals and soups thanks to lines that rival dining out
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Comment and Opinion
Is Asda’s four-day work week enough to retain store managers?
Asda has a management problem. But is the solution to cut its store managers’ working week down to four days?
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News
Asda denies four-day week plans are result of management turnover crisis
Asda said its trial was part of an increasing trend for retailers to look at more flexible patterns of work
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News
Aldi adds contactless card payment option to Shop&Go store
Shoppers can now simply tap their payment card at the barrier to enter
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News
City underwhelmed by supermarkets’ Christmas results despite bumper sales
As many childhoods can attest, the difference between Christmas expectations and festive reality can be an almighty chasm
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News
Lidl takes Christmas spend from all rivals – including Aldi
Lidl cited Kantar data to reveal it won £116m in shopper spend from rivals over the 12 weeks to 24 December
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Comment and Opinion
Tesco’s double Clubcard points speaks volumes about where the market is up to
Who hit the Christmas jackpot? The short answer is the discounters, and in particular, Lidl
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Analysis and Features
Which grocery players hit the stock market jackpot in 2023?
In 2023, crises from Ukraine to the Middle East, plus the ongoing cost of living crisis, battered stocks. Who coped best and what will 2024 bring?
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Analysis and Features
Will Asda’s discounter price matching scheme pay off?
Asda is the first supermarket to match both Aldi and Lidl
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News
Sainsbury’s launches EV charging business in supermarket first
Smart Charge will be fully owned and operated by Sainsbury’s
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Grocer 33
Waitrose, Westfield London: Grocer 33 store of the week
‘People don’t realise the time and energy required to be able to reset after such a busy period’
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Grocer 33
Waitrose wins as standards struggle across the board
All of the stores visited this week struggled with standards and availability
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Grocer 33
Asda price match move makes it cheapest as inflation falls to 2.9%
The Leeds-based supermarket last week became the first operator to price match both Aldi and Lidl
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News
Lidl GB board restructure sees new CFO appointed and chief customer officer role created
Lidl GB is also streamlining the current structure of three chief operating officer roles into two
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Analysis and Features
Festive sales: the winners and losers of Christmas 2023
A flurry of trading results are in. So where did Santa shop the most this Christmas? And who will be starting 2024 with a new year hangover?
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News
John Lewis appoints Peter Ruis as new executive director
Naomi Simcock – who had been interim director since following the departure of Pippa Wicks in March – will now become operations director
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News
Halewood Artisanal Spirits to distribute Krupnik Vodka in the UK
Krupnik is stocked with retailers including Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Asda
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Comment and Opinion
The farming sector is hanging by a thread. Now is the time for change
There needs to be change in all parts of the sector, by farmers and growers as well as by retailers, says Ged Futter, founder of The Retail Mind
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News
City snapshot: Tesco and Marks & Spencer post bumper Christmas sales
Tesco and Marks & Spencer have both posted strong Christmas grocery growth ahead of the wider market