Tag "Coop"
Co-op And John Lewis To Extend Click & Collect Partnership
Date: 2020-07-23 08:10:45
Britain’s Co-op has announced plans to extend the Click & Collect delivery and returns service offered by John Lewis & Partners to more than 500 stores by the end of...
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One million kWh of electricity generated with solar panels: with this year’s investments, a total of 100 Coop stores will operate with solar technology
Date: 2020-07-20 11:20:19
Committed to sustainability, Coop Economic Group has been pursuing its energy-efficient and environmentally conscious investment program for many years. Among the development areas, the installation of solar systems stands out,...
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Coop Denmark Steps Up Food Waste Reduction Measures
Date: 2020-07-17 08:30:20
Coop Denmark has announced that it has teamed up with Stop Spild Lokalt to step up the donation of surplus food in a bid to reduce wastage. Stop Spild Lokalt...
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Britain’s Co-op To Source Own-Brand Bread From Jacksons
Date: 2020-07-15 08:10:10
Britain’s Co-operative Group has announced that it will source bread for its private-label range from Jacksons, a Yorkshire-based baker. Jacksons, a sixth-generation family baking business from Hull in Yorkshire, will...
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Coop Sweden Tests AR Game For Better Shopping Experience
Date: 2020-07-13 08:10:28
Coop Sweden has announced that it is conducting a pilot test of an augmented reality (AR) game that aims to make shopping playful and exciting for families. The app has...
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Dethronement in the shops
Date: 2020-06-24 11:30:43
Compared to the ranking based on total sales, a different picture emerges based on the average revenue of store chains per store. According to the latest data, there has been...
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Coop isn’t slowing down
Date: 2020-06-19 10:07:47
We asked László Pekó, chairman of the board of directors of CO-OP Hungary Zrt. and the company’s CEO Géza Tóth about the last year and the challenges of 2020. What...
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Coop Sweden Introduces Digital Assistant, Cooper
Date: 2020-06-18 08:10:39
Coop Sweden has announced that it has introduced a new AI-based digital assistant to its website. The digital assistant, Cooper, aims to address customers’ queries on various topics as well...
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Co-op expands robot delivery roll-out
Date: 2020-06-04 08:50:01
Co-op is rolling out robot deliveries to further communities across Milton Keynes and surrounding towns and villages in response to increased demand for convenient delivery services during coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions....
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The Coop Aid Foundation’s truck started for the fifth time
Date: 2020-06-02 11:25:59
The truck of the Coop Aid Foundation has started for the fifth time, which provides a donation of basic foodstuffs worth 25 million HUF to 8,268 state-cared children across the...
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Coop Denmark Rolls Out Vertical Kitchen Gardens In Irma Stores
Date: 2020-05-20 08:30:18
Coop Denmark has announced plans to introduce vertical kitchen gardens offering store-grown herbs in all 69 Irma stores. The facility will supply herbs to small Irma stores that do not have plants...
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Coop Italia Introduces Solutions For Socially Distanced Shopping
Date: 2020-05-12 08:10:58
Coop Italia has introduced two new technological solutions to maintain physically distanced shopping in its stores during the coronavirus crisis. Kiosk Coop has been developed for large stores and hypermarkets,...
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Coop Denmark To Tighten Soy Requirements
Date: 2020-05-08 08:30:03
Coop Denmark has announced plans to increase the proportion of responsibly-produced soy in its private label brands, by tightening requirements. The new requirements will apply to products containing soy as...
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Britain’s Co-op Warns Of Financial Hit From Coronavirus Crisis
Date: 2020-04-28 08:30:55
Britain’s Co-operative Group has said that additional costs associated with the coronavirus crisis could be up to £275 million (€315 billon). The owner of the country’s sixth largest supermarket chain,...
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Co-op hopes to raise £30m for people hit by Covid-19 lockdown
Date: 2020-04-15 08:30:05
The Co-op hopes to raise £30m to help those hardest hit by the coronavirus lockdown by allowing members to donate their unspent shopping reward points to a new support fund...
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Coronavirus: Co-op fast tracks 5000-strong recruitment drive
Date: 2020-03-20 08:30:59
The Co-op is to create 5000 store-based posts which will provide temporary employment for hospitality workers who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus crisis. The grocery retailer said...
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Retail chains and their followers
Date: 2020-02-10 14:00:56
Ynsight Research and Silberstein & Partners set up a research team to study consumer opinion about FMCG retailers in social media and on the internet in general. They used the...
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Groupe Casino Teams Up With Beyond Meat
Date: 2020-02-04 08:10:35
Groupe Casino has signed an agreement with Beyond Meat, which will see the plant-based producer’s products go on sale at Monoprix, Franprix, Géant and Casino Supermarchés as of February. The...
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Coop Switzerland Launches Winter Drink In Three Flavours
Date: 2020-01-10 08:30:32
Coop Switzerland has launched a new ginger-based winter beverage range under its private-label brand, Karma. The vegan drink is available in a 60-millilitre pack in three flavours – beetroot, ginger,...
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Retail Gazette Loves: The Co-op donates £125,000 to children’s charity
Date: 2019-11-18 08:10:53
Pledges included a ride on a steam train, an overnight stay at a zoo and Disneyland trip. This month the Co-op donated £125,000 to a children’s charity dedicated to brightening...
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Join the Pick Pack Point network!
Date: 2019-11-14 11:25:34
The popularity of e-commerce is growing fast in Hungary. Estimation is that 4,500 Hungarian businesses are selling online, having realised net sales of almost HUF 200 billion in the first...
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Recent acknowledgments to COOP staff
Date: 2019-11-11 11:38:27
For the fifteenth time, the European Trade Day, the most important trade day for the trade sector, was held on 7 November, and many COOP Economic Group employees was honored...
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The COOP chain was again recognized as an energy conscious company
Date: 2019-11-08 11:42:31
This year, again, the COOP Economic Group has been recognized with the Energy Conservation Company trademark. For the second time since last year, the chain won the title at the...
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Coop Sweden To Relaunch Its Private-Label Brand, Xtra
Date: 2019-11-06 08:10:57
Coop Sweden has announced plans to relaunch its low-cost, private-label brand, Xtra. The brand is a favourite for price-conscious consumers and offers around 250 everyday food and household products. As...
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Hungarian Order of Merit Knight Cross was awarded to the leaders of the Coop chain
Date: 2019-09-12 11:32:13
On behalf of the President of the Republic Áder János, Dr. Palkovics László, Minister of Innovation and Technology handed over Hungarian Order of Merit Knight Cross to Pekó László, Chief...
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The 14th Coop Rally ended in Hajdúszoboszló
Date: 2019-09-06 11:25:19
The professional program has now introduced 119 domestic food producers and distributors. The team of Szatmári Malom Kft. won the Coop Rally this year. The awards ceremony took place on...
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Co-op teams up with Newcastle Uni to open 1st franchise in north east
Date: 2019-08-21 08:50:53
Co-op has teamed up with Newcastle University Student Union to launch its first franchise store in the north east later this year. The agreement will see the existing students’ union store...
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App-based payment in 30 Co-op UK stores
Date: 2019-08-20 20:00:23
British convenience retailer Co-op is to extend the trial of its app-based pay-in-aisle technology: 30 stores are planned to be enabled for shoppers to scan and pay with their mobile phones by...
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Magazine: Where promotions are hunting for shoppers
Date: 2019-08-15 07:28:50
In Slovakia the top grocery retailers are Tesco, Lidl, Kaufland, Billa and Metro. This was one of the many interesting things that we could learn at the Slovakian retail congress –...
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