Supermarkets
Supermarkets examines the strategies, performance, and operational challenges facing the UK grocery retail sector. This section reports on trading results, pricing strategy, supply chain management, sustainability initiatives, and consumer trends influencing supermarket performance. Retail Sector’s Supermarkets coverage provides analysis and insight for retail leaders, buyers, and suppliers, exploring how competition, regulation, and innovation are shaping profitability and long-term growth across the grocery landscape.
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Jul- 2018 -6 July
England game could bring additional £860m in grocery sales
Grocery sales could rise by up to 5% ahead of England’s quarter-final match against Sweden on Saturday according to data from Kantar Worldpanel. The data consultancy company said an additional £860m of groceries sales could be generated on Friday and Saturday this week. An extra 1.4 million trips are expected…
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4 July
Groom-while-you-shop PetDen opens at Tesco Extra
The PetDen is offering to look after the pets of Tesco customers while they shop, by pampering them at its grooming facility held in the supermarket’s car park. Run by salon manager Liane Shield and groomer Lizz Charlton, prices for the services are dependent on the dog’s height and coat…
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4 July
Sainsbury’s Q1 sales growth stutters as groundwork laid for merger
Sainsbury’s has seen a slump in its total sales growth down to 0.8% from 1.3% in the last quarter of the 2017-18 financial year Like for like sales growth dropped 0.7% down to 0.2% compared with the last quarter of last year. Grocery sales growth in Q1 this year saw…
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2 July
Tesco and Carrefour to form ‘strategic alliance’
Tesco and Carrefour are to form a “strategic alliance” in order to offer “even lower prices” and “improve the quality and choice of products available”. A long term relationship will see the two supermarkets making joint purchases of own brand products and goods not for resale. The deal will be…
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Jun- 2018 -29 June
Tesco joins Amazon and Microsoft ‘checkout-free’ war
Tesco has announced it is trialling new till-free technology as it looks to take on Amazon and Microsoft, which have also been carrying out checkout-free tests. The British supermarket has been trialing the equipment in its Welwyn Garden City branch where its head office is based. The new technology allows…
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27 June
124,000 petition against Sainsbury’s wage contract changes
A 124,000 strong petition supporting Sainsbury’s shop floor staff’s working rights was submitted yesterday to the company’s headquarters by Siobhain McDonagh MP, as contract changes across the organisation could see staff wages “plummet”. Michelle Cooper, who started the petition and is using a pseudonym to protect her identity, said Sainsbury’s…
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26 June
British grocery market sees two years’ consecutive growth
Britain’s grocery sector has grown for two consecutive years, according to the latest grocery market share figures from Kantar Worldpanel for the 12 weeks to 17 June 2018. The figures published today, 26 June, showed supermarket sales have risen for 25 consecutive months and now stand at 2.1% compared with…
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25 June
Morrisons reintroduces paper bags to cut down on plastic waste
Supermarket chain Morrisons will be reintroducing brown paper bags for loose fruit and vegetables, in order to help reduce the approximately 150 million small plastic bags used annually by Morrisons customers. The bags are made from 100% recyclable paper and will have a see-through paper strip so that customers and…
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21 June
MPs hit out at ‘baloney’ supermarket claims of price-cut post-merger
Neil Parish MP yesterday told Asda CEO Roger Burnley not to “give us a load of baloney” after Burnley repeatedly claimed his firm’s merger with Sainsbury’s and the product price cuts they have promised would not negatively affect small suppliers. Burnley said during a Environment, Food and Rural Affairs select…
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20 June
Sainsbury’s trials ‘relaxed’ shopping lanes
Sainsbury’s has introduced a relaxed shopping lane at its Prestwick store in a trial which will run for a month. The shopping lane is for shoppers who take a little longer in the supermarket, allowing them to be slower than the regular customer. This measure is said to be potentially…
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