UK & Ireland Grocery News
Sainsbury’s Launches ‘Taste Of The Future’ Bays
Sainsbury’s has started promoting new food and drinks products from startup brands in special areas in its stores as part of a move to...
GCA Launches New Approach To Drive Effective Compliance Risk Management By...
Christine Tacon, the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA), has today set out a unique approach to drive "effective top-to-bottom compliance risk management" by the retailers...
Waitrose Selling Stores To Help Bolster Finances
Waitrose could raise as much as £170m by offloading eight of its supermarkets via a sale and leaseback deal that would help relieve some...
Amazon To Leapfrog Sainsbury’s In Cooking & Baking Market
Amazon is set to top the cooking & baking market for the first time in 2019, according to new research by data and analytics...
Boots Starts Removing Plastic Bags From Stores
Boots has become the latest retailer to move away from offering customers plastic bags for their shopping.
From today, the health & beauty retailer has...
LloydsPharmacy Secures Prison Pharmacy Contract
LloydsPharmacy has been awarded the contract to provide pharmacy services and supplies to all prisons in Scotland.
The pharmacy retailer is now in its tenth...
Consumer Spending Growth To Be Slowest In Six Years
It looks like there will be no easing in the pressures facing UK retailers, with a new survey suggesting that growth in consumer spending...
Five Held In Patisserie Valerie Serious Fraud Probe
Five people have been arrested and questioned over alleged accounting fraud at the Patisserie Valerie chain, the Serious Fraud Office has said.
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Aldi Set To Rollout New ‘Local’ Format
Aldi will start rolling out its new smaller ‘Local’ store fascia next week following the success of the first such outlet that opened in...
Waitrose And Ocado Agree To Limit Use Of Forensic Audits
Waitrose and Ocado have become the latest grocery retailers to promise to limit the use of forensic audits of their dealings with suppliers.
According to...