Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2025

The supermarket giant shaved as much as 4m off its expectations for the forthcoming yearas chief executive Ken Murphy looks to safeguard the grocer’s market share of 28.5% – its highest level since 2016.

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Planning Supermarket Grocer Marketing 69

Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2025

Deliveroo has launched a new white label solution, named Deliveroo Express, designed for grocers and retailers in the UK and Ireland, enabling them to offer rapid, on-demand delivery through their own online channels. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazettes free daily email newsletter

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 29, 2025

The German grocery giant will be able to go ahead with its plans to launch the pub inside its Dundonald store, based near Belfast, after a judge dismissed an appeal raised by another trader. Despite this, Colton ruled that the grocer had established the “inadequacy” of local pub offerings.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2025

Related Story Aldi and Lidl launch new stores ahead of Christmas in latest expansion drive 05/12/2024 x 12:08 PM The German discounter – Britain’s sixth biggest supermarket chain, was the fastest growing bricks-and-mortar grocer in the year to end-November, with sales up 6.6% year-on-year, Kantar said last month.

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Grocer Supermarket Marketing Planning 105

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Leighton helmed Asda from 1996 to 2001 and is credited with turning around the struggling chain, alongside current M&S chair Archie Norman – pulling the grocer from the brink of insolvency to orchestrating its bumper £6.7bn sale to Walmart in 1999. Is Leighton the right fit for the job?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Were building our technology for our retailer partners to help them compete with much, much, much larger players and grocers. Edge AI is a totally different technological approach, a totally different technological expertise, a totally different data set [than cloud AI], McIntosh added.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

Were creating an even more attractive offering for advertisers to easily stay connected with customers wherever they choose to shop among Instacarts growing network of retail sites powered by Carrot Ads, which will now include one of the Midwests largest grocers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2025

Sedano’s Supermarkets , a grocer based in southeastern Florida, will adopt a unified pricing and promotions solution from Relex Solutions.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2025

Hart has overseen a rapid expansion of the discount grocers footprint, which rose from 1,300 stores in 32 states to 2,500 stores in 39 states. During his decade of leading Aldi U.S.,

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Retail Gazette

MAY 20, 2025

Asda is looking to sell around 20 stores for 400m to help fund its turnaround plan. The supermarket chain is planning to offload the shops located across the UK and lease them back for the next 20 years. Asda has appointed property advisor Eastdil Secured to manage the sale, Green Street News reported.

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Supermarket Grocer Returns Planning 111

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

However, modern PIMs really prove their value when clean, accurate and up-to-date data flows seamlessly to other enterprise systems, from merchandise financial planning to assortment planning, pricing and promotions, and more. When this occurs, each department can be assured theyre working with the correct information.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The company stressed that chair Allan Leighton urgently needed to resolve the grocer’s operational issues. ” It comes as Leighton has made a series of early indications of how he plans to restore the grocers performance, including appointing former Asda execs and spearheading the reintroduction of Rollback and Asda Price.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The Entertainer has pulled its plans to open new stores following the government’s decision to raise National Insurance contributions for employers. The toy specialist revealed it had frozen hiring at its head office and said it could no longer open two shops it had planned after announcements made in last week’s Budget.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 9, 2025

Tesco has unveiled plans to build a new multimillion-pound distribution hub at the DP World London Gateway shopping terminal, forecast to launch in 2029. ” In March, rival grocer Ocado was given the green light for a new distribution hub in Nottinghamshire, creating hundreds of new jobs.

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Grocer Supermarket Fulfillment Planning 66

Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Holland & Barrett is planning to open up to 50 new stores in the UK next year as it ramps up its expansion plans. The targeted store expansion for next year includes standalone stores, new formats and instore concessions with its retail partners, The Grocer reported.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 2, 2025

He received 2.17m from the grocer’s long term incentive plan. Roberts was paid 5.18m for the year to March 1, up from his 4.81m pay packet the year before, the retailers annual report shows. The chief executive took home an annual salary of 1.06m and 4.12m in bonus payments, including an annual bonus of 1.94m.

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Payment Services Supermarket Grocer Planning 110

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Morrisons will utilise long-standing tech partner Ocado’s fulfilment centres to help drive its move to more in-store fulfilment, as the bricks-and-mortar grocer reassesses its online grocery operations. At its 2021 peak, the online grocer was valued at £22bn, but it is now worth around £3bn.

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Fulfillment Grocer Supermarket Marketing 98

Retail Gazette

JULY 9, 2025

The restructure will see the supermarket’s section manager and trading manager roles combined into a new simplified manager position, The Grocer reported. The restructure forms part of Asda chair Allan Leighton’s turnaround plan for the business as he looks to revive the supermarket’s flagging fortunes.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2025

Waitrose has confirmed the locations of the first two convenience stores it is opening this year, alongside proposals to refurbish 20 of its existing stores under its 1bn investment plan. The grocer’s Bridport, Newbury, and Swaffham sites are thought to be among the areas to receive investment.

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Location Grocer Supermarket Planning 94

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

He spent four years at Iceland as trading director and previously worked at fellow grocers Waitrose and Aldi. This morning it was revealed that Asda is planning to cut jobs in the team leading its IT overhaul, which is expected to complete early next year. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletter

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Retail Gazette

JULY 11, 2025

. “This same approach is helping us to become a net zero business by 2040 through our annual £1m plan A accelerator fund with which we fund new and small-scale or untested solutions in collaboration with our supply base.” Click here to sign up to Retail Gazette‘s free daily email newsletter

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Supermarket Grocer Promotions Planning 72

Retail Gazette

JANUARY 22, 2025

M&S also expanded its beauty takeback scheme to 100 stores in November, as part of its plan A roadmap to net zero. Additionally, Ocado Retail boss Hannah Gibson insisted the grocer was “focussed on value” after its latest set of results, despite price rise concerns following the Budget.

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Fashion Grocer Consumer Shopping 105

Retail Gazette

JUNE 16, 2025

The grocer’s platform was built in-house by the supermarket chain and Nectar360 alongside partner brands and agencies. The supermarket chain said it will harness customer insights and AI to deliver audience insights, media planning and activation, optimisation and measurement into one single portal.

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Supermarket Advertising Grocer Planning 59

Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2025

According to The Grocer, the new Pudsey format builds on the successful elements seen in the companys Cobham, Surrey, supermarket refit, incorporating features like a closed refrigeration system and multiple digital screens. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazettes free daily email newsletter

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VMS

JUNE 23, 2025

C&S Wholesale Grocers LLC (Keene, N.H.) said it plans to acquire SpartanNash Co. The stability of the combined organization will allow the combined company and its customers to better compete against various extremely large global grocers in the U.S. Grand Rapids, Mich.) for $26.90 billion, including assumed net debt.

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Wholesale Grocer Supermarket Store Operations 59

Retail Gazette

JANUARY 10, 2025

The UK’s biggest grocer witnessed an 11% surge in online sales during the quarter and Christmas period, which included its “biggest ever week” during the run up to the big day. ” Strong online performance Shoppers leaned on the convenience of online delivery and quick commerce at Tesco in the run up to festivities.

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Supermarket Grocer Promotions Shopping 111

Retail Gazette

JULY 11, 2025

In her letter to Leighton, seen by The Grocer, GMB Union national officer Nadine Houghton said: “Shop floor colleagues are the backbone of Asda’s recovery and GMB believes you have a deep understanding of just how fundamental they are to Asda’s turnaround. at the start of August.

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Supermarket Grocer Management Planning 105

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Leighton is set to create a revival plan for the business by the end of January, and said he was looking for a “really good leader” who may not necessarily be a retailer but who understood shoppers and managing people. Bigger rivals Tesco and Sainsbury’s have been gaining ground alongside the fast-growing discounters Aldi and Lidl.

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Grocer Supermarket Returns Customer Experience 116

Retail Gazette

MARCH 11, 2025

The frozen food specialist has promoted category trading manager Adam Smith to head of retail media, who will head up the retailers first dedicated in-house team, The Grocer reported. Iceland is preparing to introduce thousands of digital screens across its store estate as part of a major push into retail media.

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Supermarket Grocer Advertising Promotions 95

Retail Gazette

JANUARY 26, 2025

Under her leadership, the grocer’s Tu Clothing brand saw a 1.3% Last week, the supermarket revealed plans to cut 3,000 jobs as part of a drive to simplify its business and address rising costs, including a 140m leap in employer national insurance contributions from April.

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Supermarket Grocer Fashion Customer Experience 105

Retail Gazette

JULY 15, 2025

Co-op has supported Labour’s plans to raise business rates for supermarkets and department stores, which the grocersaid will “support local shops” Speaking to Retail Week, a Co-op spokesman said that the supermarket backed chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plans to overhaul business rates at the next autumn Budget.

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Supermarket Grocer Department Stores Planning 97

Retail Gazette

MAY 28, 2025

Related Story Asda ditches plans for driver-facing cameras in delivery vans 27/05/2025 x 7:31 AM The UKs third biggest grocer softened its sales decline to -3.2%. Competition in the grocery sector intensified earlier this year, when Asda signalled the start of a potential price war in a bid to revive its ailing fortunes.

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ATS Grocer Supermarket Marketing 105

Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

With Pepco set to reveal its grand plan for Poundland on its Capital Markets day on 6 March, Retail Gazette takes a look at what Williams may have up his sleeve and what’s next for one of the high street’s much-loved retailers. Pepco has also put a pause on the retailer’s expansion plans for the year.

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Returns Supermarket Planning Grocer 112

Retail Gazette

APRIL 9, 2025

Including the additional items, Asda is still the third largest grocer in the UK behind Tesco and Sainsburys. Related Story Asda chair Allan Leightons four point game plan 14/03/2025 x 3:44 PM The new report comes as returning Asda veteran Allan Leighton is spearheading a turnaround of the supermarket.

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Supermarket Grocer Accounting Returns 76

VMS

JUNE 14, 2025

Executive teams need to start planning today for the likely impact of AI shopping agents becoming widespread. Grocers will become fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) businesses: Private-label growth – with nearly half of grocery shoppers in the U.S.

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Grocer Promotions Management Consumer 59

Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Writing in The Sunday Times, Machin claimed the UK’s retailers were being “raided like a piggy bank” He said: “Many of the announcements in Rachel Reevess speech last month were commendable a focus on long-term planning, good ideas to free up investment in infrastructure and a more positive tone.

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Grocer Supermarket Promotions Planning 82

Wiser

MARCH 11, 2025

Grocery Retailers Common Challenges Grocery retailers can be national chains or smaller, region-specific grocers. Best Practices for Your Retail Audits Plan and Schedule Consistent Audits Vary the frequency and depth of audits based on your brands goals, SKU complexity, and the retailers importance.

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