Tesco and Booker request to fast-track competition investigation
Tesco, the UK's biggest supermarket chain and Booker, the UK's largest food wholesaler asked the competition regulator to fast-track its…
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Why does Amazon want to acquire Whole Foods?
E-commerce giant Amazon said on Friday that it had agreed to buy Whole Foods, the upmarket grocery chain in a…
Whole Foods CEO describes one of his company’s biggest investors as “greedy bastards”
John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods, attacked one of the health-focused US supermarket chain's biggest investors, Jana Partners as "greedy…
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.…
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…