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Sainsbury’s to spend 50 million pounds on cutting prices

Sainsbury’s plans to invest about GBP 50 million in cutting the prices of 60 popular products (fresh produce, meat and milk). The cheaper prices – which according to Sainsbury’s could...

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Müller enters the kefir category

Müller is about to shake up the flavoured dairy product market with its first ever kefir product, Müller Kefir Smoothie. Kefir sales are growing by 24 percent in the United...

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An investment company is interested in the UK retail chain

Sainsbury’s shares jumped 13 percent to more than a seven-year high on the London Stock Exchange on Monday with news that an investment company would offer more than 7bn pounds...

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Sainsbury’s tests in-store recycling system

Sainsbury’s plans to introduce a new in-store recycling system which makes it possible for customers to recycle polypropylene (PP) film. There are 63 Sainsbury’s stores participating in the trial. A...

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Sainsbury’s starts price war against Aldi

Sainsbury’s campaign called ‘Aldi Price Match’ – launched to fight for market share – offers customers 250 Sainsbury’s quality products that match the prices found at Aldi. However, 8 of...

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Lidl named supermarket of the year in the UK

Lidl GB has been named Supermarket of the Year in the United Kingdom at the 2020 Retail Industry Awards. Judges praised Lidl’s effort to provide affordable fresh produce to families...

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Sainsbury’s launches private label plant-based tea bags

UK retailer Sainsbury’s has announced: from June 2021 it will introduce a plant-based material for its private label tea bags. The tea bags will be made of PL A (polylactic acid),...

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Sainsbury’s To Roll Out Own-Brand, Plant-Based Tea Bags In June

UK retailer Sainsbury’s has announced plans to introduce a plant-based material for its own-brand tea bags from June 2021. The tea bags are made of Polylactic acid (PLA), a renewable...

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Sainsbury’s Opens New Format ‘Neighbourhood Hub’ Stores

UK retailer Sainsbury’s has announced that it has opened two stores under its new ‘Neighbourhood Hub’ format. The new stores aim to offer the best in the ‘neighbourhood’ format with...

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Morrisons cuts the prices of 400 essential products

On account of the recent recession and the resulting pressure on British households, Morrisons slashes the prices on 400 essential products by an average of 23 per cent. The price...

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Sainsbury’s rewards fruit and vegetable purchases

In its “Great Big Fruit and Veg Challenge”, Sainsbury’s urges customers to buy more fruits and vegetables by providing them in an app with targets customized to their shopping habits....

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Dobbies and Sainsbury’s team up

Dobbies has started an exclusive partnership with Sainsbury’s to bring a range of food and grocery products to the former’s garden centres. The partnership commenced at Dobbies’ Edinburgh garden centre,...

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Talks restart for selling Asda

Asda’s parent company Walmart has restarted talks over the potential selling of a stake in the grocery retailer. The step comes more than a year after its failed merger with...

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Sainsbury’s expands Chop Chop delivery service to 20 UK cities

Supermarket joins up with courier firm Stuart to make deliveries to homes using bikes Sainsbury’s is taking a bicycle delivery service to 20 cities across the UK in its latest...

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Coronavirus To Accelerate UK Grocery’s Digital Shift, Says Sainsbury’s Boss

The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a digital shift in UK grocery shopping as Britons embrace home delivery, click and collect and technologies such as in-store scanning, the boss of Sainsbury’s...

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Sainsbury’s offers cleaning product refill service

Sainsbury’s has launched a dish washing and laundry detergent refill service. This step forms part of a trial to offer customers an alternative to plastic usage. Sainsbury’s has implemented the...

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Billionaire petrol industry entrepreneurs eye Asda

Asda is reportedly surrounded by petrol station tycoons and private equity houses after US owner Walmart confirmed it was in talks to sell its share last week. Walmart is thought...

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PLMA News

Big Data – big challenge Big data revolutionises retail trade, and according to a study by Capgemini, although 25 percent of 250 leading retail companies are utilising some kind of...

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Sainsbury’s Goes on the Go

Sainsbury’s is unveiling its new city convenience store format, delivering big innovation in small spaces for local shoppers. Sainsbury’s Mansion House store in London’s Square Mile is the retailer’s first...

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Sainsbury’s saves on management positions

Sainsbury’s has recently announced that it would save 500 million pounds on structural changes and eliminate hundreds of management positions. The changes are also needed to accelerate integration with Argos,...

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Tesco battles discounters with paid-for loyalty card

Tesco becomes the first major British supermarket group to offer a subscription customer loyalty scheme. This serves as a weapon in its fight against German-owned discounters. No less than 19...

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Sainsbury’s Christmas ad celebrates grocer’s 150th year

Sainsbury’s has released its 2019 Christmas advert which illustrates the grocer’s history as it celebrates its 150th year of trading. The Big 4 grocer’s TV campaign, which is already online,...

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Sainsbury’s to remove fireworks from shelves

Sainsbury’s is set to become the first major retailer in the UK to ban the public sale of fireworks after revealing it would remove them from their shelves. The Big...

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Sainsbury’s to sell 100-percent free-range eggs only from April 2020

UK retailer Sainsbury’s has announced that it will only sell eggs sourced from free-range farms as of April 2020. The decision to switch to 100-percent free-range eggs will help in...

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Sainsbury’s & Argos roll out hidden disability sunflower lanyards

Sainsbury’s and Argos has announced a nationwide roll-out of sunflower lanyards in stores as part of an initiative to support customers with hidden disabilities. Following a successful trial earlier this...

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Reverse vending machines are successful in Iceland stores

In five Iceland stores the retailer has recycled more than 1 million plastic bottles since May 2018 via five reverse vending machines. The machines issue 10-penny vouchers to shoppers in exchange...

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Sainsbury’s partners with Deliveroo for pizza delivery trial

British supermarket Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L) has teamed up with Deliveroo to trial the delivery of pizza direct to customers’ homes, seeking a slice of the fast-growing food delivery market. It said...

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Magazine: Schwarz Group Dominates European Retail

As in the previous year, German Schwarz Group leads the ranking. With a gross sales plus on company level of 6.3 percent it reached a 7 percent market share in...

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Sainsbury’s Extends Trial Of Reverse Vending Machine To Scotland

UK retailer Sainsbury’s has introduced a reverse vending machine in its Braehead superstore in Glasgow. The concept is already being tested in its stores in Lincoln and Hull. It allows...

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Meat-free butcher shop with hamburger breadfruit

Sainsbury’s has opened Britain’s first meat-free butcher’s shop, where products are made from soya, steaks, and burgers made of fruit loaf – origo wrote after The Guardian. Photo by John...

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