Distribution Centre
This coverage explores developments in distribution centres and their role within UK retail supply chains. Reporting highlights openings, closures, automation investments, workforce strategies, and logistics innovations shaping how goods move from suppliers to stores and customers. With a focus on operational efficiency and strategic planning, the insights support retail managers and executives navigating supply chain challenges and growth opportunities.
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Jan- 2022 -27 JanuarySupermarkets
Ocado unveils new suite of ‘game changing innovations’
The Ocado Group has announced a new suite of “game-changing” innovations for its proprietary Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) to help it compete with its rivals for rapid grocery delivery. The latest innovations include: the “world’s lightest and most efficient” grocery fulfilment bot; “dramatically lighter” grids; robotic arms that pick groceries…
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4 JanuaryNews
Tesco unveils first commercial electric articulated HGVs
Tesco has launched the “UK’s first” commercially used fully electric heavy freight articulated trucks. Two new 37 tonne DAF electric vehicles will transport food and other products from Wentloog rail terminal outside Cardiff to Tesco’s distribution centre in Magor, Wales, in partnership with logistics and international freight forwarding company FSEW.…
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Dec- 2021 -17 DecemberOnline & Digital
Matalan partners with The Hut Group in new digital drive
Matalan has partnered with THG Ingenuity in a bid to accelerate its digital drive and support “extensive” online growth, in what is the first leg of a multiyear investment roadmap. The latest partnership with THG Ingenuity is said to represent a new and strategic alliance that will see the introduction…
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Nov- 2021 -17 NovemberNews
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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Oct- 2021 -21 OctoberHigh Street
Boots to hire 5,500 Christmas staff
Boots has announced it will hire 5,500 seasonal roles as the retailer prepares for the busy Christmas shopping period. The recruitment drive includes up to 4,000 Boots Christmas customer advisor roles available at stores across the UK, and over 1,000 roles available for Christmas warehouse operatives and picker packers at…
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13 OctoberHigh Street
Holland & Barrett to close stores on Boxing Day
Holland and Barrett is the latest store to announce plans to close all its stores in the UK and Ireland on Saturday, 25 December and Sunday, 26 December 2021, as a “thank you to colleagues for their efforts during the pandemic”. It follows in the footsteps of Morrisons, Marks and…
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Sep- 2021 -29 SeptemberSupermarkets
Morrisons staff win first round of equal pay legal battle
Thousands of store workers at Morrisons have won the first decision in their legal for equal pay after an employment tribunal ruled their roles can be compared to their colleagues in distribution centres. The case comes after over 2,000 mostly female store worker staff from Morrisons, represented by law firms…
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22 SeptemberSupply Chain
Yoox Net-A-Porter doubles global inventory capacity
Yoox Net-A-Porter has opened a new single hub in Italy that will help to serve all of its Net-A-Porter and Mr Porter’s global customer base, doubling the stores’ existing inventory capacity. Located in Landriano, near Milan, Yoox Net-A-Porter said the new €47m (£40m) distribution centre represents one of its “most…
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Aug- 2021 -11 AugustOnline & Digital
John Lewis acquires new distribution centre to bolster online growth
The John Lewis Partnership has signed an agreement with Tesco to lease a one million sq ft distribution centre in Milton Keynes as the group continues to focus on its online growth. The move comes as online sales have grown from 40% to over 60% of its total sales during…
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5 AugustHigh Street
Next store staff step closer to equal pay victory
Next has conceded that it can compare the roles of its store workers and distribution centre and warehouse employees, bringing the workers’ equal pay claims one step closer to success. Over 400 Next staff members brought the case against the retail group, stating that shop floor work is equally as…
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