All Supermarkets articles – Page 3
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NewsOcado warehouses go live with Coles in Australia
Ocado and Australian grocery giant Coles have announced that two promised customer fulfilment centres have gone live this summer.
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AnalysisWaitrose has unveiled a new format as it wades into grocery c-store arms race
Waitrose has this week thrown open the doors to its newly refurbished John Barnes store in north London, which it is holding up as the poster child for a £1bn investment in revamping its store estate.
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NewsWaitrose plans to open 100 new c-stores as part of £1bn investment drive
Waitrose is set to ramp up investment in its store portfolio with plans to spend over £1bn over the next five years on c-stores.
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NewsAldi to overtake Asda as UK’s third-largest supermarket in the next five years
Analysts have predicted that discounter Aldi will overtake Asda as the third-biggest supermarket in the UK within the next five years, based on current market share trends.
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NewsAsda denies union claims that workers could strike at Skelton store
Asda has denied GMB claims that it’s facing another potential strike at one of its stores as health and safety concerns prompted the opening of a formal strike ballot.
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InterviewQ&A: Deliveroo chief operating officer on his mission to ‘change the way customers shop and eat’
Deliveroo chief operating officer Eric French discusses the app’s latest non-food tie-ups with The Perfume Store and B&Q, it’s long-term goals for its ‘Shopping’ offering and the brand’s mission to “change the way our customers shop and eat”.
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NewsMorrisons has extended its Deliveroo tie-up to Morrisons Daily c-stores
Morrisons has rolled out its partnership deal with Deliveroo to its Daily convenience stores, giving customers access to more than 2,500 products for rapid home delivery.
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Opinion‘Lord Rose’s intervention shows that Mohsin Issa has become an albatross around Asda’s neck’
In his hugely successful career, everything Mohsin Issa has touched has turned to gold – until, that is, he bought Asda. Now the harder he works and the more involved he becomes in turning the business around, the further it seems to drift into the doldrums, writes Hugh Radojev
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NewsShoppers turn to promotions as grocery prices rise for the first time in over a year
Shoppers in the UK have faced a jump in grocery prices for the first time in over a year and are turning to promotions and deals to make their budgets stretch further.
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NewsAsda chair says he is ‘embarrassed’ by performance as he urges co-owner to step back
Asda chair Lord Stuart Rose has said he is “embarrassed” by the supermarket giant’s market share retreat and called on co-owner Mohsin Issa to take a step back from the day-to-day running of the retailer.
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Innovation of the WeekSainsbury’s removes friction with new checkout technology
Innovation of the Week is a subscriber-only series highlighting retail initiatives that have caught the eye of our team.
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AnalysisAsda’s three new priorities to turnaround tumbling sales and evaporating market share
After a dismal set of financial results for the first half of the year, Asda has three new key priorities for the remainder of the year that it hopes will right the ship
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NewsAsda owner has blamed the ‘challenging retail environment’ as revenues and like-for-likes slump
Asda owner Mohsin Issa has blamed what he called a “challenging retail environment” for falling revenues and a slump in like-for-like sales at the grocer.
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NewsAsda owners to invest £30m into supermarket chain to arrest sales slump
Asda co-owner Mohsin Issa is set to inject £30m into the supermarket chain in a bid to reverse its sales slump trend.
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NewsAsda staff survey leaves the grocer facing a new confidence crisis
The results of an Asda staff survey have left the supermarket giant facing a fresh crisis with less than half of its employees having confidence in the retailer’s long-term strategy.
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NewsMorrisons expands Just Eat partnership to include supermarkets nationwide
Supermarket giant Morrisons has expanded its delivery partnership with Just Eat to include supermarket groceries as well as deliveries from its cafes and Daily c-stores nationwide.
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NewsIceland has posted record profits as shoppers devoured its £1 range
Iceland has posted record profits as shoppers devoured its £1 range.
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Innovation of the WeekCarrefour trials palm payments in store
Innovation of the Week is a subscriber-only series highlighting retail initiatives that have caught the eye of our team.
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NewsSupermarkets have been cleared in an investigation into loyalty card pricing
The competition watchdog has cleared the grocers having failed to find any widespread evidence of misleading loyalty promotions in the industry.
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NewsAsda is bracing for further strike action for a second time
More than 150 Asda workers are getting ready to walk out in a further strike action claiming the supermarket has failed to address dispute points, according to GMB.