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- 2024 -15 July
Abuse of retail workers to become standalone offence
The government is expected to pass the Crime and Policing bill this week, which will make assaulting, threatening or abusing a retail worker a standalone offence, The Times has reported. It is understood that this new bill will be announced in the King’s Speech on Wednesday (17 July). The Crime…
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12 July
GCA warns Amazon it must comply with Groceries Supply Code of Practice
The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) has told Amazon that it must take “swift and comprehensive” action to demonstrably comply with the Groceries Supply Code of Practice in its new 2024 annual survey. According to the GCA’s 2024 annual survey, while the number of suppliers experiencing a code issue fell from…
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9 July
Ocado to open third CFC with Aeon
Ocado has announced the continued expansion of its partnership with Aeon with plans to construct a third Customer Fulfilment Centre (CFC) in Kuki-Miyashiro, Japan. The grocer entered an exclusive partnership with Aeon in 2019 to develop the online operations of the Aeon Next grocery business using the Ocado Smart Platform…
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8 July
Asda publishes latest ESG report
Asda has today (8 July) published its 2023 Brighter Living Report – its fourth report updating on the progress made towards its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) targets in the last calendar year. In the “carbon” section, key updates from the report include continued reduction in carbon emissions (scope 1-3),…
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8 July
Asda scraps four-day work week trial
Asda has reportedly scrapped its trial of a four day work week after staff were left exhausted, according to reports from The Telegraph. Under the trial, employees in 20 of its stores worked a usual 44 hour work week in four days rather than five. However, many staff complained that…
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5 July
Co-op partners with Walmart on new online fulfilment tech
Co-op has announced a partnership with Walmart Commerce Technologies that will see it implement online fulfilment technology – store assist – to enhance the colleague and customer experience, as well as support its quick commerce growth ambitions. It comes as Co-op has ambitions to reach more than one third share…
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4 July
Tesco staff to receive £30m pay out from share scheme
More than 20,000 Tesco employees are set to receive a £30m bumper pay out after the strong performance of the Tesco Save as You Earn colleague share schemes. The windfall is created by the strong growth of the Tesco share price, which reached £3.06 earlier this week. Employees who joined…
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2 July
Sainsbury’s Q1 sales jump 2.6% as it hails market share gains
Sainsbury’s has revealed that its retail sales rose 2.6% and also hailed its market share gains during the 16 weeks ended 22 June 2024. Sales at Sainsbury’s alone rose 4.2%, with grocery sales up 4.8% but its general merchandise and clothing sales dropped 4.3%. The retailer stated that the sales drop…
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Jun- 2024 -28 June
Tesco agrees retail media partnership with advertising giant GroupM
Tesco has announced a significant media partnership with GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, which aims to “drive best-in-class delivery of data-led solutions, education, and innovation across all facets of retail media in the UK”. GroupM said the deal is among the first of its kind focused specifically on the burgeoning…
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26 June
Morrisons sales increase 3.7% to £3.8bn in Q2
Morrisons has seen total sales, excluding fuel, rise by 3.7% to £3.8bn in its second quarter, while like-for-like sales increased 4.1% in the period from 29 January to 28 April. Following the £2.5bn sale of its petrol filling station business to MFG, the group successfully completed its debt reduction tender…
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