Tesco news and analysis
Tesco is the largest supermarket in the UK. With more than 3,000 retail stores in Britain, it operates across Extra hypermarkets, supermarkets and in the convenience space, with the Express format. It also runs the market-leading customer loyalty programme Tesco Clubcard. Online business, Tesco.com, offers home delivery and click & collect services. The Grocer runs Tesco news, analysis, insight and opinion.
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NewsTesco, Co-op and Lidl app users overtake website visitors
App users overtook website visitors for Tesco, Co-op and Lidl last year, as eight out of 10 supermarkets saw web traffic fall, according to exclusive data
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NewsValue ranges in double-digit decline as Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury’s slash products
Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsbury’s have cut their budget own label ranges by up to 15.6%, removing some of the cheapest options from shelves as retailers focus on mid-tier products and alternative value mechanics
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Range PreviewBattle of the Valentine’s Day supermarket dine-in deals
Retailers roll out their annual dine-in deals while attempting to hold prices steady in a market still under pressure from inflation and loyalty pricing
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Comment & OpinionHealthy Start 2.0: Retailers are ready, but is the government?
Supermarkets, understandably, want assurances that they will not be left to deal with families humiliated at the till because their vouchers don’t work
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NewsSupermarkets in talks to offer financial top-ups to poorest families
Retailers told MPs they were in ‘active conversations’ about supermarkets offering families up to £2 a week to boost the government’s schemes
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NewsTesco suspends salmon supply from Bakkafrost farm
Footage from the Green Britain Foundation revealed allegedly diseased fish being dumped into the sea and salmon left to suffocate beyond the time allowed under RSPCA Assured welfare rules
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NewsDon’t harass shopworkers, says BRC after TikTok bin raider’s new posts
Social media activist the Food_waste_inspector_ posted a video of himself this week telling an Aldi store worker he wanted the supermarket to donate three packets of rice if he paid for and donated a larger quantity
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Grocer 33Tesco comes out on top in tight Grocer 33 pricing battle with Asda
Tesco’s £89.18 basket was 1.8% cheaper than Asda’s, which came in at £90.86
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NewsDefra in talks with food industry to drive new urban regeneration projects
The government has held talks with the food industry to discuss how it can help regenerate run-down urban centres to support healthier and more sustainable food
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NewsTesco to cut nearly 400 jobs amid bakery restructure
Tesco is cutting almost 400 jobs as it phases out its centralised bakery operation and transitions to a new in‑store model
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NewsUK’s leading supermarkets ‘way behind’ European rivals on sustainability goals
The Superlist Environment Europe report, by sustainability think tank Questionmark, ranks the actions of 27 major supermarkets to compare progress on environmental and sustainable diet goals
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NewsData: Lidl Plus is UK’s fourth most popular loyalty scheme
New research shows Lidl Plus is fourth most popular loyalty scheme, with women more likely then men to bother with loyalty memberships
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NewsExchange for Change unveiled as new name of deposit return scheme
Drinks bosses and retailers who are spearheading the scheme hope the new trading name will become synonymous with the scheme
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Grocer 33Tesco squeaks to win in The Grocer’s vegan 33 price comparison survey
The gap to third place was just 1%
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NewsData: Rivals undercut Tesco on third of Everyday Low Prices range
Analysis of Assosia data by The Grocer shows consumers could buy 32% of the products featured in Tesco’s new Everyday Low Prices campaign cheaper somewhere else
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Comment & OpinionAsda has come out swinging on price, but is anyone listening?
The winners this Christmas have realised that price isn’t everything
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NewsTesco and M&S shareholders react to Christmas results
Christmas sales at Tesco and M&S were received differently on the stock market on Thursday – and not as you might have expected, given the news they delivered
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Grocer 33Jeremy Jordan on how award-winning Tesco Ebbw Vale store serves its community
Welsh products in every aisle and a ‘community feel’
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Grocer 33Tesco Ebbw Vale wins top supermarket in the East Wales Valleys
Our shopper noted the plentiful staff “who went out of their way to find products” missing from shelves and then restocked the shelf for other customers
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NewsAsda vows to undercut Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s loyalty prices by up to 50%
A year on from relaunching Asda Price, Allan Leighton is laying down the gauntlet in a renewed price offensive