All Supermarkets articles – Page 9
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NewsWaitrose set to double British butternut squash harvest after ‘perfect’ summer
Waitrose said this autumn marks the first time British butternut squash has been available on such a large scale
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NewsM&S’s Italian meal range relaunch delivers 25% uptick in volume sales
Value sales are up by 35% year on year since 10 September, when the 49 new or upgraded Italian meals landed in stores
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NewsTesco arms delivery drivers with body cameras to tackle crime wave
Tesco will roll out the equipment to more than 5,000 delivery drivers in 100 stores by the end of the year, saying it wants to make its staff feel safer at work
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Analysis & FeaturesIs Andrew Staniland’s ‘Icelandification’ of Morrisons enough?
With Lidl closing in, Morrisons is undertaking a range reset, and changing its loyalty and promo strategy – while trying to pay down its £1bn debt
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Grocer 33Waitrose crowned best supermarket in Harrow mystery shop
This week’s smallest store offered a ‘very enjoyable experience’
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Grocer 33Waitrose South Harrow’s Rob Pender on commuter customers and Halloween sales
‘It’s a very busy, 24-hour operation, and the first store I’ve managed where there is a petrol station, which has added layers of complexity’
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Grocer 33Asda cheapest supermarket for a Halloween party in special Grocer 33 shop
Asda’s £80.79 basket was cheapest for 15 items and exclusively so for 12
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NewsAutistic man ‘sacked’ by Waitrose offered paid role by Asda
Tom Boyd has been offered two paid shifts a week by Asda after he was let go from Waitrose’s Cheadle Hulme store
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NewsAsda and Evri to roll out ParcelShops service to 1,200 stores
Asda plans to have rolled the service to all of its supermarkets, superstores and Express c-stores by the end of April 2026
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NewsMorrisons’ frozen boss Rebecca Stanton leaves after two years
Stanton’s departure follows a wide-scale restructure of Morrisons’ trading team in March, under group trading director Andrew Staniland
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Comment & OpinionCollaborative forecasting is a myth. Retailers must own the numbers
Collaboration in forecasting sounds appealing but it’s just a gentle name for trying to get the retailer to do their job properly, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & OpinionShoppers and staff are key for in-store retail tech success
For retailers to fully capitalise on investments and ensure long-term success, they must prioritise onboarding shoppers and store associates, says Toby Pickard, retail futures senior partner at IGD
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NewsSainsbury’s, Morrisons and Weetabix back free breakfast clubs
Early adopter schools will be offered discounts and free deliveries
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NewsSainsbury’s launches ‘elevated’ Taste the Difference Discovery range
The range includes 54 products including steaks, artisanal deli and cheese, modern ready meals, and wine and spirits
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NewsDefra says government must ‘get out of the way’ and let industry run EPR
Defra’s circular economy director Emma Bourne confirmed the government planned to hand over the vast majority of functions for running EPR to a producer-run organisation
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NewsMorrisons to roll out electronic shelf edge labels to all 497 supermarkets from 2026
Morrisons is the UK first traditional UK supermarket to install electronic shelf edge labels in its larger stores, through a new partnership with Vusion Group
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NewsGousto takes aim at supermarkets as recipe kit provider returns to double-digit growth
Gousto has returned to ‘market-beating’ growth in the first half of 2025 as the recipe kit business continued to build on positive trading momentum experienced in the back end of last year
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NewsWaitrose criticised for axing autistic volunteer
Charity worker Frances Boyd from Stockport said her 27-year-old son Tom Boyd had done over 600 hours of work experience at a store in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester
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NewsLidl brings back ‘mystery boxes’ containing £100 of goods for £20
A limited run of 1,500 of the boxes is to go on sale at 10am this Friday
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NewsM&S boss Machin calls for EU SPS talks to be ‘sped up’
The Windsor Framework, had introducing ’a lot of cost, a lot of complexity and impacting our product range and product shelf lives’, Machin said