All Convenience stores articles – Page 9
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NewsExclusive: Tesco wades into on-demand grocery war with one-hour Whoosh service
Tesco has launched a new rapid delivery service as it lays down the gauntlet to on-demand grocery rivals like Deliveroo.
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Opinion‘The pandemic has torn down the line between foodservice and retail’
As well as looking at retailers’ financial results, it’s always worth looking at the results and investor relations outputs from suppliers too.
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DataData: Grocery sales and basket sizes fall as lockdown impact unwinds
Take-home grocery sales and average basket sizes both fell in May as lockdown restrictions eased further and the vaccination roll-out continued.
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NewsPret a Manger trials first-ever stores on petrol forecourts
Food-to-go specialist Pret a Manger has partnered with petrol-station operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG) to trial its first-ever forecourt stores.
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OpinionMove of the Week: Marks & Spencer takes big leap forward in its leadership team
The promotions of Stuart Machin and Katie Bickerstaffe announced this week mark a significant step in the evolution of the M&S leadership team.
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NewsSainsbury’s launches Carluccio’s trial with three store-in-store formats
Sainsbury’s is set to launch three new Carluccio’s store-in-store concepts, representing the casual-dining brand’s first foray into supermarket retail partnerships.
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NewsCo-op price matches vegan and meat products as part of new climate strategy
The Co-op has price matched all of its plant-based Gro products with their meat equivalents as part of a new ten-point climate change blueprint to be carbon neutral by 2040.
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DataData: Aldi wins back market share as customers return to supermarkets
Discounter Aldi has seen its grocery market share grow for the first time in the last year, as many customers who had been buying food online returned to supermarkets in April.
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NewsWaitrose to create 400 new jobs as it extends Deliveroo partnership
Waitrose is set to create 400 new jobs as it extends its home delivery partnership with Deliveroo to 110 new stores.
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NewsFormer Sainsbury’s boss King backs Snappy Group delivery start-up
Former Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King has joined Snappy Group, a start-up that helps local corner shops sell online, after personally making a “significant investment” in the business.
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NewsCo-op scraps team manager roles in store management restructure
The Co-op is set to scrap team manager roles across its c-stores as it restructures its store management but it insisted there will be no redundancies as part of the process.
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NewsIssa brothers’ Asda swoop sparks competition concerns
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has raised competition concerns over the Issa brothers taking over Asda petrol forecourts – but has also opened the door to rubber-stamping the deal.
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NewsEG Group swoops for £100m Leon acquisition
EG Group, the petrol forecourts business whose billionaire founders also own supermarket chain Asda, have snapped up food-to-go business Leon for £100m.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Co-op’s business rates return refusal – prudent or a PR disaster?
Another impressive set of annual results for the Co-op has been overshadowed by its decision to keep business rates relief. Group chief executive Steve Murrells explains the decision and claims it has the full backing of members.
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DataData: Is the grocery pandemic uplift over?
After a year of extraordinary sales growth driven by the pandemic over 2020, new data shows that grocers are going to face strong comparables as the market annualises.
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DataData: How Covid-19 has reshaped the European grocery market
From the rise of online to a flight to value, new data produced by McKinsey shows the effect of the coronavirus crisis on the European grocery market.
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NewsOcado’s Steiner downplays threat from Amazon and on-demand start-ups
Ocado chief executive Tim Steiner has dismissed the threat of Amazon and emerging on-demand grocery start-ups, comparing them to pureplay convenience stores.
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GalleryStore gallery: Iceland’s new Swift c-store format
Iceland has opened the first of its new Swift convenience store formats in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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AnalysisAnalysis: How Greggs is looking towards the future of food-to-go
Beloved UK high street baker Greggs has been hit hard by lockdown store closures and changing customer behaviours. Retail Week analyses how the business is future-proofing itself
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AnalysisAnalysis: How Morrisons blazed a grocery trail through the Covid crisis
Morrisons’ profits might have fallen over the past year, but the grocer’s chief executive David Potts painted a picture of a business that has used a period of unparallelled upheaval to readjust its priorities for the future.