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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Retail Gazette

JULY 14, 2025

Aldi has overtaken Asda for the first time to become Scotland’s second biggest supermarket by volume, according to new data from Kantar. Aldi attributed its growth in the region to its commitment to Scottish sourcing and the growing popularity of customers shopping locally.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 4, 2025

Asda’s flagging fortunes have carried further into the new year, with sales at the supermarket falling 5% in the 12 weeks to 23 February. Kantar reported that the market share for the UK’s third largest grocer now sits at 12.6%, down 1.1% Aldi – the UK’s fourth largest grocer – saw its sales rise 4.9%

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Any retailer worth its salt understands that consumers’ shopping behaviour varies across different age demographics. Coresight also revealed several large behavioural differences between these cohorts, ranging from their perspectives on personal financial and economic conditions to the retailers they prefer to shop with.

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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.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 2, 2025

Sainsbury’s chief people officer Prerana Issar has defended the supermarket’s decision to close its cafes, saying it “just didn’t make sense” to keep them. ” Issar also spoke about the rise in crime against shopfloor workers, adding that Sainsbury’s reported 13,000 cases every day during 2023.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 1, 2025

The supermarket chain is trialling the robots, which are said to be the world’s first autonomous inventory bot, across its Wetherby, Redcar and Stockton stores, The Grocer reported. The bots use computer vision and AI to independently move through supermarket aisles multiple times per day to collect data.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 15, 2025

Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com has test launched a UK grocery supermarket website, called Joybuy. Although shopping on the website is currently available to customers with certain London postcodes, the retailer said there would be more cities coming soon.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

The 570 -store Midwestern supermarket retailer Hy-Vee will expand its partnership with Instacart by adopting the platforms Carrot Ads solution. This will also simultaneously improve the customer shopping experience through ad tech capabilities that drive ad personalization and make product discovery easier.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 20, 2025

The claimants, mostly female employees in the supermarket chain ‘s stores, are fighting for equal pay for work of equal value compared to predominantly male workers in the retailers distribution centres. Morrisons workers have made a major step forward in their equal pay case, following a judgment handed by the Employment Tribunal.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 10, 2025

It’s hold on the market rose to 28.5% – the highest of any supermarket – boosted by growth across its convenience, superstore and online channels. As both supermarkets toast to their “biggest-ever” Christmases, what can Sainsbury’s and Tesco tell us about the main trading trends over the festive period?

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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 new managers will report into Asda’s operations managers, with the supermarket also appointing new operations managers in some of its larger stores.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 2, 2025

The surge in festive shopping pushed the retailers turnover to a record high, exceeding 1bn ($1.25bn) for the first time in its 30-year history in the UK, Reuters reported. This milestone comes as the grocer continues to expand its footprint and appeal across the UK. year-on-year, Kantar said last month.

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Retail Gazette

JULY 11, 2025

GMB Union bosses have sent a letter to Asda chair Allan Leighton accusing the supermarket of “penny-pinching” tactics causing worker conditions to fall behind those of its rivals. The supermarket’s base retail pay reached £12.45 an hour on 6 July and is set to jump to £12.60 an hour by October. an hour). .”

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2025

Asda chair Allan Leighton has laid down his game plan for turning around the UK’s third biggest grocer and “ regaining customers trust” The supermarket chain saw its like-for-like sales slide 3.4% last year as consumers headed elsewhere for their weekly grocery shop.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 1, 2025

Despite a late Easter, Kantars data indicates that consumers are still spending as they adjust their grocery shopping habits to inflationary pressures. This surge in promotional activity highlights the intensifying battle among grocers to attract price-sensitive shoppers. FMCG sales at M&S rose by 13.1%

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2025

The supermarket’s store, which opened in late February, is the first to feature the updated design and layout, and is being followed by similar changes at two new London locations, Sainsburys Bermondsey Square and Sloane Avenue. Related Story Are supermarkets right to scale back on Aldi price match?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2025

Online grocery shopping has evolved from a premium convenience to a pandemic-era necessity and now into a default choice for everyday consumers. While national chains have quickly built out their digital infrastructure, regional and specialty grocers have faced steeper hurdles. Temu is now welcoming U.S. brands to its platform.

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A1 Retail

JUNE 25, 2025

The launch of JET Go is part of Just Eat’s ambition to make high street shopping available to all, at the tap of a screen. Retail orders on Just Eat doubled last year alone, reflecting the surging consumer appetite for fast, flexible, on-demand shopping.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Morrisons has issued an apology as customers were unable to access discounts on their festive shopping due to issues with the More loyalty card system. The supermarket has also been hit with complaints over cancelled online orders during the crucial festive shopping period, particularly affecting click and collect services.

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Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2025

The upmarket grocer will launch new Little Waitrose shops in Southwick, West Sussex and St Andrews, Bristol before the end of the summer, The Grocer reported. The stores are the first new sites confirmed by the supermarket as owner John Lewis Partnership announced its plans to invest 600m into its supply chain and store estates.

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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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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Eligible Amazon orders will now be able to be collected at most of the supermarket’s stores across the UK, with more locations set to be added across the coming months. The partnership comes as the supermarket chain’s hold on the grocery sector continues to dip further. as sales fell 5.5% in the 12 weeks to 3 November.

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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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Retail Gazette

APRIL 29, 2025

That said, it may come as some surprise that more and more consumers are also using platforms such as TikTok Shop to stock their fridges and pantries. At least one product that you could also buy in a supermarket is now sold every minute on the platform, with TikTok reporting its grocery sales are up 180% year-on-year.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The targeted store expansion for next year includes standalone stores, new formats and instore concessions with its retail partners, The Grocer reported. There are some undeniable facts, we want Holland & Barrett to be accessible. It also teamed up with Next in July to launch concessions within three of the high street giant’s stores.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Sainsbury’s has become the first UK grocer to extend Aldi Price Match into convenience stores, in a bid to offer its shoppers value and competitive pricing in time for the key Christmas period. The offer is now available for all of the grocery giant’s customers whether shopping online or in one of over 1,400 stores.

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 29, 2025

Despite this, Colton ruled that the grocer had established the “inadequacy” of local pub offerings. He highlighted that the pub would be based in the centre with established shopping and transport facilities, as well as a growing adult population.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 9, 2025

Aldi has overtaken Asda on food and drink sales in a fresh blow to the embattled supermarket chain. These figures are distributed privately to supermarkets and do not include sales ofalcohol, toiletries, household goods or beauty items. Aldi accounted for 10.6% Aldi accounted for 10.6%

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Schwarz Group The parent company of German supermarket chains Lidl and Kaufland is owned by Dieter Schwarz, son of its founder Josef Schwarz. Elo France’s Elo is the owner of supermarket chain Auchan, which was founded in 1961 by Gérard Mulliez and has its headquarters in Croix, France. The Walton family currently holds 45.5

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Retail Gazette

JANUARY 14, 2025

He spent the last eight years at the UKs third biggest grocer, responsible for its retail and online shopping channels. Gregg’s departure from Asda comes as the supermarket has shuffled its leadership team to satisfy the daily and weekly shopping needs of ordinary working people and their families who demand value.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 17, 2025

The single supermarket, which sold just 600 basic grocery lines at the time, has since grown to more than 1,050 stores nationwide and overtook Morrisons to become the UKs fourth biggest supermarket in September 2022. increase in sales and helped the supermarket gain an additional one million new shoppers, Marketing Week reported.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 15, 2025

Running from 15 to 21 April, the grocer’ s promotion includes five core lines: 1kg of carrots, one swede, 360g of broccoli, 500g of parsnips, and 2kg of white potatoes all priced at 8p each, in-store and online while stocks last.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

He went on: “At M&S we are growing, but others are not and there is no doubt that there will be fewer jobs, fewer shops, and slower wage growth across the sector as a whole.” ” Related Story M&S Clothing has transformed under Richard Price, so what’s next as he departs?

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Grocer Supermarket Promotions Planning 83

Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Over 300,000 Tesco employees will share in this special gift, which includes free Clubcard vouchers as a “little extra” thank you for their contributions, The Grocer reported. The Clubcard, which launched back in February 1995 was the UKs first supermarket loyalty card, paving the way for the today’s countless schemes.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 23, 2025

Morrisons is set to revamp its UK stores in a bid to offer shoppers a more premium “farm shop feel” The overhaul is being implemented under a strategy dubbed Morrisons magic, headed by the supermarket’s group trading director Andrew Staniland, The Grocer reported.

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Retail Gazette

JUNE 9, 2025

The grocer ‘s pop-up, called “Club Card,” is an exclusive club for Clubcard members, with door entry requiring proof of visitors’ Clubcard member status. Over 300,000 workers shared in the gift, which included free Clubcard vouchers as a “little extra” thank you for their contributions, according to The Grocer.

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