Supermarkets
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Jan- 2025 -17 January
Sainsbury’s opens first new store of 2025 in Burnt Oak
Sainsbury’s has celebrated the opening of its first new store of 2025 with the arrival of its Burnt Oak Broadway Local store in Edgware. The new 2,626 sq. ft store offers a curated range of meal deals, fresh bread and cakes baked daily in-store, fruit and veg, meat, fish, and…
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17 January
Aldi to open 9 London stores as part of £650m investment
Aldi is set to open nine stores in the capital this year as the grocer aims to invest £650m in Britain in 2025. Building on its promise to bring “unbeatable value” to even more Londoners, the supermarket has revealed four of the locations set to welcome new Aldi stores in…
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16 January
Tesco hires Deliveroo’s head of strategy to lead Whoosh
Tesco has hired Deliveroo’s global head of strategy Francesca Jones to lead its Whoosh delivery service. Jones joined Deliveroo in 2022 first as a global training and operational excellence manager before being promoted to head of strategy in 2023. Prior to that, she worked at Aldi as an area manager…
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16 January
Co-op launches new value campaign
Co-op has officially launched a new value campaign in a bid to change consumer and member price perceptions, and to show how its customers “will always get lower prices on the items they buy the most”. The campaign builds on Co-op’s newly-established platform – Owned By You. Right By You…
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13 January
Tesco urges gov to deliver plan for UK agriculture
Tesco is calling on the government to provide a clear and comprehensive plan to support UK farmers transition to net zero as it announces new plans to set up two low carbon concept farms in its supply chain to trial low carbon farming methods and help suppliers accelerate innovation. Speaking…
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13 January
Sainsbury’s boss criticises speed of Labour tax changes
Sainsbury’s CEO, Simon Roberts, has told the Telegraph that the chancellor gave businesses no time to plan for her £25bn tax changes. He said that the decision to increase employer National Insurance from April was “not something anyone expected – certainly, it wasn’t expected at the speed it was coming…
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13 January
Poundland invests in security enhancements
Poundland has announced that it has invested “significantly” in its shop floor security as part of its Against Retail Crime initiative. Part of this investment will equip its 800-plus store estate with anti-theft innovation to deter shoplifting including communication headsets for staff. It will also be giving its contracted security…
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13 January
Asda axes regional manager roles in latest restructuring
Asda’s new chairman, Allan Leighton, has reportedly told staff that multiple regional manager roles will be axed in a bid to overhaul the business, after the group suffered poor sales over the Christmas period. According to The Telegraph, 13 regional manager roles will be cut as part of the restructuring…
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10 January
Sainsbury’s to raise staff pay after Christmas sales increase
Sainsbury’s has announced that it is set to increase staff pay after it saw its sales rise 3.7% for the 16 weeks ended 4 January 2025. Alongside this, Sainsbury’s saw its festive period sales rise 3.8% in the 6 weeks ended 4 January. As a result, the supermarket will split…
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9 January
Tesco celebrates ‘biggest ever’ Christmas
Tesco has seen its “biggest ever” Christmas as it saw its like-for-like sales rise 2.8% in the 13 weeks ended 23 November 2024. Alongside this, the supermarket saw its like-for-like sales rise 3.8% in the six weeks ended 4 January 2025, with UK sales up 4.1% across the festive period.…
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