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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Mar- 2018 -7 March
2018 Groceries Code Adjudicator annual sector survey opens
The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) Christine Tacon has launched her fifth annual survey of the groceries sector. The annual survey allows the GCA to collect a comprehensive set of views on current code-related issues facing suppliers. The GCA is seeking experiences and views from suppliers and others in the sector…
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6 March
Consumer spending on ‘non-essentials’ increases
According to Barclaycard February 2018 saw increased sales of non-essentials, as consumers continued to prioritise their spending on the ‘experience economy’. Data from the group also revealed supermarket spending (3.2%) returned to levels previously seen over the past six months, after a spike of 4.4% in January 2018. Entertainment performed…
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6 March
Morrisons and Tesco fastest growing, Co-op returns to growth
The latest grocery market share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, published today for the 12 weeks to 25 February 2018, show that grocery sales have increased in value by 3.2% compared to the same time last year. This marks the 12th consecutive 12-week period in a row that total market sales…
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6 March
Grocery purchases drive UK retail sales: BRC
Food sales continue to drive up sales in the retail sector, but non-food retailers suffered a fall in spending. Over three months to February in-store sales of non-food items declined by 2.4% on a total basis, and 3.3% on a like-for-like basis, according to figures released today by the British…
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5 March
Morrisons may face £100m equal pay claim
Supermarket chain Morrisons could be the next of the ‘big four’ grocers facing a potential equal pay compensation claim, for £100m. The claims primarily relate to the difference in pay between workers on supermarket shop floors and those in the associated distribution centres. Around 170 claimants are being represented by…
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5 March
Serious Fraud Office seeks retrial of former Tesco employees
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has written to Southwark Crown Court seeking a retrial of former Tesco bosses Carl Rogberg, Christopher Bush and John Scouler, over an alleged £326m fraud scandal. The three former senior management figures in the Tesco UK business all face charges of abuse of position and…
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Feb- 2018 -28 February
Pressures on shop prices ease
February shop price deflation deepened to 0.8% in February 2018 compared 0.5% with the previous month. According the British Retail Consortium deflation in non-food prices deepened in February, with prices decreasing at a rate of 2.2% compared to January when prices declined by 1.9%. This was the deepest deflation since…
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23 February
Aldi discloses 4.8% gender pay gap
Aldi has revealed a median gender pay gap of 4.8%, well below the national average. The discount supermarket said that this is a result of “having more men than women in store management positions in the upper quartile”, and gave the example of graduate area sales managers, who all join…
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22 February
Tesco to reveal gender pay gap statistics
Supermarket giant Tesco is the first in the UK to reveal its gender pay gap statistics. A report made by the group showed its median gender pay gap was 8.7%, which is below the UK average median pay gap of 18.4%, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). According…
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21 February
Walmart shares plummet 10% as online sales disappoint
Walmart shares have plummeted by 10%, their biggest fall in more than 30 years, due to disappointing online sales. The retail giant said e-commerce sales growth in the fourth quarter was 23%, down from 50 percent in the third quarter. Online revenues totalled $11.5bn (£8.2bn) last year, however the lack…
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