Supermarkets

Nisa renews Too Good To Go partnership

Nisa has announced it is strengthening its support of the food waste fighting app Too Good To Go for the second year with a new campaign to increase the number of Nisa retailers signed up and to help further reduce food waste. A mission has been launched to grow the…

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Tesco unveils refillable cleaning range

Tesco has announced the launch of a new cleaning range where customers will be able to buy refills for cleaning sprays in a bid to help UK homes save up to 60 million pieces of plastic a year. Tesco said that customers looking for more sustainable ways to shop can…

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Co-op offers free delivery until after Black Friday

Co-op is serving-up free delivery of online grocery orders until the day after Black Friday, it has confirmed. Earlier this year Co-op announced plans to accelerate its e-commerce strategy and drive rapid growth in the market for same-day and on-demand community-based home deliveries. Stores will act as micro-distribution hubs in…

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Lidl becomes UK’s highest paying supermarket

Lidl GB has announced plans for its biggest ever investment into colleague wages, making it the highest paying supermarket in the UK. The supermarket revealed it is committed to investing £18m in wages, directly benefiting over 21,000 Lidl colleagues and over 80% of its workforce across Great Britain. Entry-level wages…

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Tesco bolsters product buying team with new partnership

Tesco has partnered with product sourcing platform RangeMe in a bid to support its product buying teams with better access to the “most relevant” products for customers. Tesco will use the platform to help its buyers scale product sourcing efforts with streamlined submissions and simplified discovery tools.  Buyers will be…

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Supermarket Income REIT acquires new sites for £73m

Supermarket Income REIT, the real estate investment group, has announced the acquisition of a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Swansea, South Wales, and a Tesco supermarket in Maidstone, Kent, for a total purchase price of £73m. The Sainsbury’s store opened in 1989 and was refurbished in 2016. The seven acre city centre…

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Co-op removes plastic from Christmas wrapping

Co-op has announced the launch of its plastic free Christmas wrapping paper range. The retailer has removed the plastic film from around the rolls of Christmas wrap which it said has “saved almost a million pieces of plastic” as it continues its commitment to removing unnecessary plastic from its packaging…

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Sainsbury’s opens new Colwick supermarket

Sainsbuy’s has welcomed customers through the doors of its new supermarket in Colwick. The flagship 53,000 sq. ft store was opened by Mayor of Gedling, Meredith Lawrence, alongside St John the Baptist Primary School pupil, Jace Pikett, who won a competition to design a limited-edition Sainsbury’s bag for life to…

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M&S returns to profitability in H1

M&S has announced it has returned to profitability for the first half of the year ending 2 October 2021. During the period, the group saw pre-tax profits rise to £187.3m compared with losses of £87.6m the previous year. Statutory revenues also increased to £5.1bn from £4.09bn in 2020 and were…

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Retail and Hospitality leaders sign UK soy manifesto

UK industry leaders from 27 major businesses, including all of the biggest UK grocery retailers – Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Marks and Spencer and Iceland – and a group of restaurant brands have signed the UK soy manifesto. This commits them to cutting deforestation and habitat destruction out of UK…

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