All Supermarkets articles – Page 29
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NewsSupermarket food safety shake-up given shock go-ahead
Food safety campaigners and local authorities have raised concerns about supermarkets being allowed to ‘police themselves’
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Comment & OpinionInside Track’s defence is long on indignation, short on answers
The British farming and food industry doesn’t need well-meaning professionals pushing for government-co-ordinated market manipulation, says Mike Coppen-Gardner, founder and CEO of SPQR
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Comment & OpinionThe healthy food standard is our best bet to tackle obesity
The government’s healthy food standard would introduce mandatory data reporting and health targets across the food industry, says Lauren Bowes Byatt, deputy director at Nesta
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NewsLidl lays claim to boosting UK economy by £14.5bn in 2024
The figure is the gross value added to the economy by Lidl through its operations and supply chain, according to its first socioeconomic impact report
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Comment & OpinionBudget 2025: How has food, drink and retail reacted to the news?
The budget was delivered in a manner that ‘falls short of standards that the House expects’, Rachel Reeves was told before she’d even started today
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NewsAldi to sell Christmas veg for 8p in ‘Super Six’ deal
The festive 8p range will be Aldi’s weekly promotional ‘Super Six’ fruit & veg lines from 18 December
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NewsAsda hit by Fitch ratings downgrade as turnaround stutters
Ratings agency Fitch pushed the long-term default rating on Asda parent company Bellis Finco’s borrowings further into junk territory, downgrading it from ‘B+’ to ‘B’
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NewsSupermarkets facing business rates hike after Treasury u-turn
Supermarket chiefs had previously expressed confidence Rachel Reeves had ‘listened’ to their demands
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NewsMorrisons rolls out digital screens as it targets increased supplier spend
Morrisons is making its first move into digital retail media screens, rolling out the technology across 300 stores in partnership with Bauer Media Outdoor as it seeks to boost commercial income from suppliers
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NewsAldi forecasts bumper year for British apple sales after successful harvest
Aldi has sold around 30,000 tonnes of British apples over the past year, equivalent to one in five of all apples sold in the UK
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NewsMorrisons defends sale of newspaper service citing ‘unsustainable’ costs
The sale to News Team has drawn criticism in the press, after 1,700 paper boys and girls lost their rounds as a result
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Comment & OpinionInside Track: good intentions won’t save the UK food system
If British manufacturers and retailers desert traditional farmers for the most intensive industrial production, it will have significant consequences for our food security, our farming community, and our health and environmental goals, says an anonymous member of the industry insider group Inside Track
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Comment & OpinionMind the gap: the growing disconnect in UK food standards
Most shoppers assume the eggs, meat and dairy products on supermarket shelves are produced by British farmers – but many of these products or their ingredients are imported, says Nick Allen, British Egg Industry Council CEO
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Comment & OpinionWhy is the GCA still letting Amazon off the hook?
The GCA’s investigation focuses on payment issues where there is clear, documented evidence, but this limited scope misses many of Amazon’s breaches, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Grocer 33Asda Gloucester named best supermarket around the Cotswolds
In Asda’s first win since July, the produce section was “well stocked, clean and tidy”, the entrance “bright” with festive offers, and the store “fairly easy to navigate”
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Grocer 33Asda’s Jason Donoher on running a ‘battleship’ store with a local Gloucester feel
‘We’ve got a big clothing and non-food range, a huge food offer and one of the largest e-commerce operations in the region’
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Grocer 33Asda wins cheapest supermarket – but is just 3p cheaper than Morrisons
Asda was the only retailer where our basket cost more than last week or last month
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Comment & OpinionWill the wet wipe plastic ban be enough to clear our sewers?
The ban has been popular. Now the government needs to double down and rein in manufacturers’ claims over flushability and misleading on-pack messaging
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NewsBooths saves 100,000 meals from going to waste through Too Good To Go
Booths has saved the equivalent of 270 tonnes of CO2 emissions by preventing food going to landfill during the nearly two-year partnership
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NewsOcado shares crushed by Kroger CFC closures
Kroger is expected to close the sites in Maryland, Wisconsin and Florida in January, with the move mooted to save the retailer $400m next year