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NewsTesco to open pop-up stores at NHS Nightingale sites
Tesco plans to open pop-up shops at NHS Nightingale sites across the UK to give healthcare workers easy access to food and essential household items.
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Data: Grocery stock levels stabilise but some unavailabilities grow
The huge efforts by the UK grocers and their suppliers are helping to bring out-of-stock levels under control, but there is still work to do. The latest data from Edge by Ascential shows unavailabilities across some categories increased over the past week and disparities between the ability of supermarkets to ...
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Analysis: Has online grocery missed its golden opportunity?
As the demand for online grocery deliveries rocketed over the past few weeks, many supermarkets buckled under the pressure. Retail Week looks at whether the inability to meet demand will cause long-term damage to grocery ecommerce.
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Coronavirus: Morrisons to give frontline staff bonus increase
Morrisons will give frontline staff a bonus three times larger than normal for continuing to work during the coronavirus crisis.
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M&S temporarily adds branded lines to ensure ‘strong availability’ on staple items
Marks Spencer has temporarily added a number of branded items to its ranges to help maintain what it calls “strong availability” during the ongoing coronavirus epidemic.
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Major grocers push government to relax Sunday trading laws
Major UK food retailers are keen to push the government to relax Sunday trading laws as part of their bid to continue feeding the nation during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Coronavirus stockpiling sees grocery sales rocket beyond Christmas spend
Supermarket sales growth for March was the biggest on record as nervous consumers stockpiled groceries as the UK went into lockdown to contain coronavirus pandemic.
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Ocado struggles to deal with ‘10 times higher than normal’ level of demand
Online grocer Ocado has said it cannot fulfil the “unprecedented demand” for its services as it does not have the capacity to deal with the “10 times higher than normal” level of orders.
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Ocado’s first international depot goes live in France
Ocado’s first international customer fulfilment centre (CFC) has today gone live for French supermarket giant Casino.
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Coronavirus: Grocers ramp up hiring to deal with extra demand
Tesco, Asda, Aldi and Lidl have all ramped up their hiring of temporary staff to help stack shelves and ease the burden on existing colleagues due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Coronavirus: M&S expects profits at lower end of target range
Marks Spencer has said profits for the end of the 2019/20 financial year could be at or even below the bottom end of expectations as a result of the ongoing coronavirus epidemic.
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Coronavirus: Government relaxes competition laws for supermarkets
The government has temporarily relaxed elements of competition law to allow UK supermarkets to work more closely together to feed the nation in the face of the coronavirus crisis.
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Coronavirus: M&S extends rationing across grocery ranges
Marks Spencer has extended its temporary purchase restrictions of two items per person across a raft of products including grocery, homecare, frozen food and eggs.
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Coronavirus: Ocado alters website algorithm to make deliveries ‘fairer’
Ocado says it closed its website yesterday for the first time ever so it could begin making changes to its algorithm to make deliveries “fairer” for would-be customers.
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Coronavirus: Asda stores to host elderly hour this Friday
Asda will only open its stores to elderly and vulnerable shoppers before 9am tomorrow to give them easier access to products during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Tesco rations all product lines amid coronavirus crisis
Tesco is to place a restriction of three items per customer on every product it sells as part of changes to combat stockpiling sparked by the coronavirus crisis.
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Asda temporarily closes counters and rations products to limit stockpiling
Asda has become the latest supermarket to begin rationing products to limit stockpiling and is closing counters to free up staff as the coronavirus outbreak continues.
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Analysis: How are retailers protecting staff during the coronavirus outbreak?
As the government takes increasingly stringent action to combat the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, retail staff have found themselves on the front line in the face of panic buying and contagion fears.
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Aldi begins rationing lines as stockpiling continues
Aldi has become the first supermarket in the UK to effectively ration the sale of all lines as customers continue to stockpile in the face of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Coronavirus: Morrisons to immediately pay farmers to help with virus
Morrisons has vowed to make immediate payments to smaller suppliers in a bid to help them get through any disruption caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
