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Byline: Ian Quinn Waitrose issued a stark warning over Brexit this week, as retailer results across the industry showed the threat of a no-deal Brexit is already taking a heavy [...]

Byline: Alec Mattinson Sainsbury's was the only supermarket to record lower annual shelf prices in July as its raof price cuts, announced in June, stemmed an otherwise inationary trend across [...]

Defra ministers: Boris Johnson's ministerial shake-up has continued with two new appointments at Defra. Reporting to new secretary of state Theresa Villiers, George Eustice has regained his former post as [...]

Byline: 'At up to PS7.99 for delivery, is Tesco Now's fate any wonder?' Steve Farrell, deputy news editor The demise of Tesco Now shows how challenging it is to make [...]

Safeway, an Indianapolis grocery chain for more than 75 years, is now entirely owned by its employees. Scott Weaver, owner of SAW Capital, Safeway's parent company, announced Jan. 13 the [...]

Byline: Jim Dudlicek Shopper-centricity is the ultimate prize for the winners of PG's 2015 Category Captains Awards. Sell the sizzle, not the steak. This catchphrase, coined by stockbrokers in the [...]

71% Percentage of staff that check social media during meetings Source: LondonOffice.com Q 'We don't need to engage in macho competitive takeover activity' TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding suggests the mega-takeovers [...]

Colombian retail remains a fragmented affair, with traditional outlets being the dominant channel for overall grocery retail. This encompasses neighbourhood shops, street vendors, bakeries and mom-and-pop grocery stores which operate [...]

* It's been a good, if nerve-shredding, month for Punch Taverns FD Steve Dando. After weeks of trying to gain creditor support for a share-diluting 600m £ debt-for-equity deal, the [...]

Waitrose has seen a spike in chickens with the highest levels of Campylobacter on its shelves. The retailer's latest quarterly results, published last week, revealed that 9% of chicken samples [...]

It's no secret Asda has suffered from difficult sales performance in recent years, though recently results have improved. Those of us of a certain age, though, remember the Asda of [...]

Lidl has hit back at claims it is falling short in reducing antibiotic use in its supply chain, after being singled out as the UK's worst performing supermarket by pressure [...]

The latest Kantar data identifies Morrisons as the fastest growing of the big four supermarkets. There are lies, damned lies and statistics, but most commentators would agree Morrisons has significantly [...]

Sainsbury's has begun stocking products on the top of its aisles in a move that has attracted criticism for its 'messy' and 'cash & carry' look. Following a 'successful trial' [...]

Who would be a supermarket CEO? You've spent years overcoming scandal (Horsegate) after scandal (fraud). You've started to win people round with lower prices and by trying to do the [...]

One of the UK's largest supermarkets may have infected 'thousands' with hepatitis E through its pork products, the headlines screamed this week. Here's what you need to know about the [...]

Tesco could phase out single-use sp plastic carrier bags if a three-store trial proves a success. Under the trial at its stores in Aberdeen, Dundee and Norwich, customers wanting a [...]

The Co-op has challenged its rivals to follow it in axing all non-British fresh meat, after releasing figures showing UK meat imports doubled during the past 20 years. Pointing to [...]

Tesco has culled nearly half the SKUs from its Express stores as a result of Project Reset. The retailer had cut 46% of the master range available to Express stores [...]

Farmfoods' commitment on eggs: Farmfoods has followed the UK's major supermarkets by committing to stop sourcing eggs from caged hens by 2025. The discounter faced protests this month by animal [...]

Lidl UK has defended its decision to charge 9p for its 'stronger' carrier bags, despite other retailers selling similar products at a lower price. The discounter will remove single-use sp [...]

Tesco has angered Scottish customers after ditching the country's flag from its strawberries. The retailer came under fire for the move this week after admitting on Twitter it had replaced [...]

A jury in Manchester heard that Jalal Uddin, aged 71, was murdered in February by two supporters of the Islamic State because he practised a form of Islamic healing called [...]

Tesco's Farm brands initiative, which brings to the aisles of the UK the produce from seemingly huge agricultural units (only joking), created a bit of a stir when it was [...]

Aldi UK set to follow parent with ban: Aldi UK could be set to follow its German parent Aldi Siid's lead in banning the use of pesticides in its supply [...]

The government must 'urgently' consider how to extend the Groceries Code Adjudicator's remit to incorporate indirect suppliers to UK retailers, MPs have warned. A report published this week by the [...]

Tesco has begun recruiting up to 100 sheep farmers from across its British supply base for the trial of an 'industry-first' cost of production pricing model for lamb. The retailer [...]

As Morrisons opens up a new price battle among the grocers, prices have fallen by the largest year-on-year proportion on record. The Grocer Price Index, collated by BrandView from more [...]

Power. It's so hard to quantify these days, what with the upheaval in the industry, the myriad forces bearing down on it--from structural and technological changes, to legislation and lobby [...]

Waitrose insists on RFS: Waitrose has said that all British fishing vessels supplying its seafood will need to be signed up to the Responsible Fishing Scheme (RFS) by the end [...]

The story of 'Christmas present' is just about written and it was a gift to the winners: Tesco. Lower prices driving higher transactions = higher volumes. Tesco's 1.3% like-for-like volume [...]

Another victory for Sainsbury's this week, despite the fact this Beckenham store scored poorly for availability on this Saturday afternoon shop, ft made up for this with great customer service [...]

Availability is boring. It's about moving goods, replenishing stocks, extra facings, trucks, DCs, sales-based ordering, deliveries. Are you asleep yet? Yet as any retailer knows, availability is probably the most [...]

Tesco got a taste of the British public's aversion to nannying this week, in the form of a noisy backlash against the retailer's supposed 'ban' on Ribena. Never mind that [...]

A week's holiday in Majorca is undoubtedly a rational choice. John Rogers, to whom I recently allocated responsibility for strategy (with the conditionality that any credit arising will accrue to [...]

Tesco is stepping up its efforts to fight Campylobacter with a tough new contamination target for its fresh chicken suppliers. The retailer said this week it was changing its technical [...]

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- Hy-Vee Inc. is a privately held, employee-owned company. Both of those factors are significant, says Mike Skokan, the company's executive vice president, chief financial officer [...]

Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda fired huge price salvos this week--with the three supermarkets investing hundreds of millions of pounds in price cuts across thousands of products. The first to press [...]