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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Nov- 2021 -17 November
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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16 November
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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15 November
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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11 November
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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10 November
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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10 November
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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9 November
Grocery sales fall 1.9% as shopper habits stabilise
Take home grocery sales fell by 1.9% over the 12 weeks to 31 October 2021- but are still higher than before the pandemic – up 7.3% compared with 2019, according to the latest figures from Kantar. Kantar said the results come as consumers’ shopping behaviour “is beginning to stabilise” and…
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8 November
Co-op and Unilever announce refill store trials
Unilever and Co-op have announced a partnership together which will see them launch refillable packaging store trials. They said their aim was to gain a “deeper understanding of consumer behaviour towards refillable and reusable packaging in a convenience environment”. The move is Unilever’s first within a convenience store. The trial…
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5 November
Sainsbury’s opens convenience store in South Croydon
Sainsbury’s has announced the opening of its latest convenience store on Brighton Road, in South Croydon. The 2,640 sq. ft store was transformed from a vacant unit into a “fully fitted-out” Sainsbury’s Local in just five weeks where it will now serve customers from 7am – 11pm seven days a…
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5 November
Tesco wins Terra Carta Seal award
Tesco has announced it has been recognised by HRH The Prince of Wales for “leading the retail industry in transitioning towards a net zero future” by winning the Terra Carta Seal award. The award, launched this year, is given to companies which are “driving innovation and taking action to create…
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