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Cencosud S.A. through its Argentine subsidiaries, reported it has signed an agreement for the acquisition of 100 percent of the companies Supermercados Mayoristas Makro S.A. and Roberto Basualdo S.A. The [...]

Davidson Bogel Real Estate (DB2RE) reported its successful representation of Kroger in the acquisition of a 14-acre property in Little Elm, Texas from local investment firm Dollar-Flowers Realty Partners. According [...]

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Byline: Ronan Hegarty Asda bagged a second Grocer 33 win in three weeks as it prepares to launch a major Rollback pricing initiative. Ahead of Asda scrapping its Aldi and [...]

Byline: Ronny Gottschlich Last week's Court of Appeal ruling in favour of Thatchers Cider and against Aldi was more than just a legal victory. It was a siren call for [...]

Why Tesco's 'biggest ever Christmas' didn't prevent it from cutting jobs For the record, it was just 21 days since the allconquering supermarket giant delivered news that sales were up [...]

Byline: Steve Farrell Aldi has begun taking a PS10 deposit from shoppers before they can enter its checkout-free store in Greenwich. The 'pre-authorisation' charge is taken from the customer's card [...]

Byline: Steve Farrell & Ian Quinn Asda has ditched its Aldi and Lidl price match scheme, just 12 months after it launched. The surprise axing of the scheme comes as [...]

Sainsbury's health and beauty offer is set to receive a glow-up as part of Simon Roberts' Next Level strategy. The supermarket registered a series of phrases - 'The Edit Sainsbury's' [...]

Tesco is bringing forward the time of the earliest slots available for sameday delivery, in a 'market-leading move for a UK supermarket'. Shoppers booking a slot before 8.45am can now [...]

Byline: Dene Mullen After two months without a mystery shop win, Tesco has now bagged two victories in three weeks. Its branch in St Oswalds Street, Liverpool, picked up 69 [...]

EVERY ISSUE / WHAT’S COOKING? WHAT’S COOKING? Keep up to date with all the latest happenings in the vegan world A NEW DAWN FOR PLANT-BASED Over the past five years, [...]

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Davidson Bogel Real Estate (DB2RE) reported its successful representation of Kroger in the acquisition of a 14-acre property in Little Elm, Texas from local investment firm Dollar-Flowers Realty Partners. According [...]

NationsBenefits, a supplemental benefits and healthcare fintech solutions provider reported its new partnership with Associated Supermarket Group (ASG), expanding access to essential health and wellness products for local communities nationwide. [...]

NationsBenefits, a supplemental benefits and healthcare fintech solutions provider reported its new partnership with Associated Supermarket Group (ASG), expanding access to essential health and wellness products for local communities nationwide. [...]

? Interesting move by Asda - I do wonder whether the actual inefficiencies are being addressed, though ('Asda boss Allan Leighton to launch massive new Rollback price war', 20 January, [...]

Byline: Dene Mullen Sainsbury's romped to victory in this week's mystery shop - its first win since early October. Its branch in Wilmslow Road, Manchester, scored 77 points to comfortably [...]

Tesco has relaunched its Sustainable Pig Group with a broader remit. The group will now cover all production methods used in the UK across farms of varying sizes, in partnership [...]

Byline: Kevin White Aldi UK parent Aldi Sud has become the first food retailer in the world to include the Marine Stewardship Council's Improvement Program in its sourcing policy. Launched [...]

Tesco has unveiled two private-label ranges aimed at supporting shoppers' digestive health and increasing their protein intake. Gut Sense (from PS1.50) has debuted with a quartet of kefir drinks and [...]

Niamh Leonard-Bedwell Nestle Purina has shrunk the size of its Felix As Good As It Looks catfood pouches by 15%, without reducing the recommended retail price. The former 12x100g packs [...]

FARMING Tesco, Aldi, Lidl and Co-op urge Inheritance Tax u-turn 5 STORES Rappers Krept & Konan to open inclusive supermarket 6 TRUMP Uncertainty continues as tariffs hang in the balance [...]

Byline: Ian Quinn Former Morrisons group retail director David Lepley has assumed the newly created role of chief supply chain officer at Asda, as Allan Leighton continues his management shake-up. [...]

My Waitrose. members can once again claim a free coffee without buying anything, but can no longer get a free newspaper, in new changes to the Waitrose loyalty scheme. The [...]

Aldi is set to open nine new stores in London in 2025, as part of its previously announced PS650m investment in UK expansion this year. The discounter is ploughing PS55m [...]

Byline: Steve Farrell The Court of Appeal has come down on the side of Thatchers in a longrunning trademark battle with Aldi over its Cloudy Lemon Cider. The court overturned [...]

Byline: Ian Quinn Newly returned Asda boss Allan Leighton is to launch the supermarket's biggest Rollback price cuts campaign for years next week, as he seeks to spark a comeback [...]

Byline: Alice Leader Booker has added 656 stores to its symbol estate in the past year, making it the fastest-growing player in the market. The Tesco-owned wholesale giant now has [...]

Asda has said Walmart remains 'incredibly supportive' of its effort to extract itself from the US chain and former owner's IT systems, after reports it will face millions in penalty [...]

Byline: George Nott Tesco doesn't talk up its marketplace much, but it's been busy behind the scenes. This month, The Grocer revealed it had grown the number of SKUs by [...]

Byline: The Grocer team We've grown used to supermarkets using Christmas veg as a loss leader, with 20p and 15p not abnormal in recent years, but in 2024 the price [...]

Discount stores are in high demand with shoppers. But you can't just wish them into existence. Or can you? No. But that hasn't stopped one prankster from trying. The Welsh [...]

Byline: Ronan Hegarty Asda claimed its first Grocer 33 pricing win since late November amid a deal-heavy blitz across the board this week. The Leeds-based grocer, which announced a major [...]

Sainsbury's CEO Simon Roberts has conceded the supermarket will need to work with its supply base to mitigate the impact of cost increases caused by Labour's budget. During a results [...]

Byline: George Nott Tesco Marketplace has massively expanded and now carries more than 300,000 SKUs, The Grocer can reveal. In less than eight months since launch, the products available on [...]

Byline: Ian Quinn Supermarket bosses have called on the government to again delay the rollout of the deposit return scheme. The BRC has written to environment secretary Steve Reed, The [...]

The government needs to set a 'clear, long-term food and agriculture policy and provide innovation funding to safeguard the future of UK farming', Tesco has urged. Speaking at the Oxford [...]

Byline: Ronan Hegarty Tesco is celebrating its first store of the week victory since November. The supermarket's Andover store brought home the bacon this week with an impressive 81 points. [...]

Evolution Fresh, a producer of organic, cold-pressed juice products, reported that four of its Real Fruit Soda flavors - Tropical Mango, Strawberry Vanilla, Lemon Lime, and Orange Squeeze - will [...]

In This Issue / Shares M&S and Tesco’s festive figures The festive season certainly proved to be “no turkey” for M&S and Tesco, says Alistair Osborne in The Times. Not […]

Tech firm Blue Yonder - which recently suffered a ransomware attack that downed supply chain systems at several major mults - has reassured clients their data is safe. It is [...]

Levi Roots 2007 From the moment Levi Roots serenaded the Dragons (and the show's millions of viewers) with the irresistibly catchy theme tune for his Reggae Reggae Sauce, the nation [...]

As listed supermarkets celebrated a record Christmas, the markets remained thoroughly unimpressed on a busy Thursday of trading updates. Tesco delivered its 'biggest ever' festive season, with like-for-like food sales [...]

Byline: George Nott Tesco is rolling out keypad-opened cabinets for champagne and sparkling wines to a further 50 stores, in a bid to increase security. Customers must press a keypad [...]

Byline: Ian Quinn Tesco boss Ken Murphy has questioned the firepower of his supermarket rivals to sustain a new year price war, saying they had issued 'bold claims' but not [...]

Forget Spotify - the only end-of-year round-ups we're interested in are those from the supermarkets, as our surrendering of loyalty data pays of f big time with news that we [...]