Asda
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22 Aug
Discounters undercut the UK’s biggest supermarkets as people opt for cheaper food
German discount supermarket chain Lidl has overtaken Waitrose as the UK’s seventh-largest grocer.
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1 Aug
B&M is not the answer to Asda’s discounter woes
If Walmart is, as has been reported, lining up a bid for discount chain B&M, it would at least signal that it had a clear strategy for Asda, despite the challenges that such a merger would represent.
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28 Jul
British people really like British food
When it comes to shopping British people are not so fussed where things come from, except it seems for food.
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25 Jul
Which UK supermarkets offer same-day delivery in the UK?
Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket announced plans to launch a same-day delivery service across the country on Monday.
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4 May
Discounters made waves in grocery now they are shaking up homewares as people begin to feel the Brexit pinch
Having already disrupted food retail, discount players are increasingly impinging on the grocers’ share of non-food retail sectors, with homewares becoming the next battle ground.
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4 May
Here’s why UK supermarkets will have to pass on cost increases to customers
As supermarkets battle with suppliers over increased costs following the devaluation of the pound, it is apparent that they don’t have a lot of room to swallow those increases themselves.
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21 Apr
Discounters to take a fifth of all UK retail parks spend
Discount players such as B&M and Home Bargains have rapidly expanded in recent years.
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29 Mar
Price inflation is driving the UK online grocery market
The e-commerce grocery market is climbing thanks mostly to price inflation.
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28 Mar
8 of the biggest, and strangest, fines supermarkets have paid
Tesco has been ordered to pay £129m in fines after it overstated its profits in 2014.
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22 Mar
Watchdog reveals supermarkets hold firm grip over suppliers
Charging suppliers for customer complaints and bullying them into buying charity tables; supermarkets have been throwing their weight around.
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7 Feb
Aldi bags spot in top 5 UK supermarkets
German-owned retailer Aldi is now Britain’s fifth largest supermarket, according to industry data released today by research firm Kantar Worldpanel.
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1 Feb
4 ways Ken Morrison changed the supermarket industry
Sir Ken Morrison died today aged 85, the Yorkshireman who took his father’s small Bradford-based grocery chain with an annual turnover of £50,000 and turned it into the UK’s fourth biggest supermarket worth £13bn (£16.4bn).