The Co-operative Group is the UK’s biggest mutual retailer. As well as running food retail and wholesale operations, is the country’s largest funeral business and probate provider. Retail Week provides news, analysis, features and opinion about the Co-op and the grocery sector.
C-store specialist Co-op has appointed former AF Blakemore and DHL executive Andy Wilmot as its new group supply chain and logistics director.
The Co-op and M&S are among 100 retailers, food businesses, and NGOs that have called on the government to improve the UK’s food system and ensure food security for future generations.
The British Retail Consortium’s latest crime report shows that violence and abuse against staff fell last year. However, while the numbers are trending in the right direction, the report also lays bare how much there is still to do.
Co-op quick commerce managing director Chris Conway has left the business.
After accusations of ‘toxic’ culture at the Co-op, an unrelated executive departure wasn’t a headline it needed this week. An inquiry is necessary, if only to provide reassurance in the retailer’s belief that the allegations are wrong, writes Charlotte Hardie
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