Supermarket
This coverage examines the supermarket sector within UK retail, focusing on store operations, pricing strategies, product innovation, supply chain efficiency, financial performance, and leadership decisions. Reporting provides insights into competitive dynamics, shopper behaviour, and strategic initiatives shaping grocery and high-volume retail. Tailored for executives and managers, it supports effective decision-making in a fast-moving market.
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Jan- 2023 -30 JanuarySupermarkets
Asda faces strike action after plans to cut jobs and reduce pay
Asda workers are reportedly planning strike action after the supermarket unveiled plans that could place 300 roles at risk across the business, and affect the pay of over 4,000 hourly-paid workers. A union source told Sky News that GMB representatives met last week after Asda first revealed its set of…
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27 JanuarySupermarkets
Asda to cut 300 roles as 4,000 face pay cuts
Asda has unveiled a series of change proposals that could place 300 roles at risk across the business, as well as affect the pay of over 4,000 employees. As part of plans to cut costs, the supermarket is first proposing to replace overnight ambient and frozen shifts in 184 smaller…
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26 JanuarySupermarkets
Sainsbury’s launches healthy overnight drive-thru for shift workers
Sainsbury’s has launched a healthy overnight drive-through aimed at shift workers who it says have the unhealthiest diets in the UK. According to new research from Sainsbury’s, professions such as security guards and taxi drivers top the list for unhealthiest diets. It found that almost a quarter (23%) of night…
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25 JanuarySupply Chain
300 Amazon warehouse workers hold first UK strike
The GMB union has organised a strike for about 300 Amazon warehouse employees out of 1,000 at the e-commerce retailer’s Coventry depot today (Wednesday 25 January), the first to be held in the UK. The union has been working to boost its presence at the company, as today’s strike action…
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18 JanuarySupermarkets
Aldi increases pay rates for warehouse workers
Aldi has announced that it is increasing its pay rates for around 7,000 warehouse workers across the UK from 1 February 2023. Following two pay increases for hourly-paid warehouse colleagues in 2022, this further rise means colleagues will be paid up to 20% more than at this time last year.…
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12 JanuarySupermarkets
Strong Christmas boosts Tesco’s Q3 sales to £19.7bn
Tesco has announced revenues of £19.7bn, a 6.1% increase, in the UK and ROI for the 19 weeks ended 7 January 2023. The supermarket chain also saw a 6.1% increase in like for like sales for the period including a nearly 8% increase over Christmas. As a result of this…
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10 JanuaryAnalysis
Could budget supermarkets dominate ‘the big four’?
The big four – Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons – were once the undisputed favourites for supermarket shopping. However, when the drastic cost-of-living crisis emerged in 2021, it made many households rethink their priorities when it came to buying their essentials and non-essentials. At the tail end of 2022, Aldi…
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9 JanuarySupermarkets
Lidl sees sales rise 25% in run up to Christmas
Lidl GB has announced that over 1.3m people shopped with them in the run up to Christmas, as its sales increased 24.5% YOY. The supermarket chain stated that shoppers switched nearly £63m of spending to them from other supermarkets. It revealed product highlights included Christmas Pudding sales increasing 185% YOY…
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3 JanuarySupermarkets
Aldi hails record December as sales top £1.4bn
Aldi’s Christmas sales during December soared 26%, topping £1.4bn for the first time. The figures, which reflect an increase in demand, come as the UK’s cheapest supermarket helped millions of families celebrate together despite the rise in cost of living. Fresh meat sales saw particularly strong growth as poultry and…
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Dec- 2022 -20 DecemberSupermarkets
Tesco to consider ending its fresh food counters
Tesco is reportedly considering ending its butcher and fishmonger counters in its stores as consumer interest in them has dropped, according to the Telegraph. Tesco is the only one of the big four supermarkets, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Aldi, that still offers a fresh food counter. Some 279 Tesco stores…
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