Retail Gazette

MARCH 14, 2025

Asda chair Allan Leighton has laid down his game plan for turning around the UK’s third biggest grocer and “ regaining customers trust” The supermarket chain saw its like-for-like sales slide 3.4% The supermarket has since invested 43m in store hours during the second half of last year.

Planning

Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2025

Asda veteran Allan Leighton admitted the supermarket chains problems are self-inflicted as he looks to turnaround the business following his return as chairman last year. We had a financial plan but we didnt have a business plan. We have now got a plan, everybody understands what it is were trying to do, he said.

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

APRIL 16, 2025

The UKs second-largest supermarket said it expects retail underlying operating profit for 2025/26 to come in at around 1bn slightly down from the 1.036bn it delivered in the year to March 1 and below analysts expectations of 1.08bn. increase in annual profit.

Payment Services

Retail Gazette

JANUARY 23, 2025

The supermarket will close its remaining cafs, hot food counters, patisserie, and pizza counters, and reduce senior management roles by an estimated 20%, Reuters reported. The supermarkets latest round of cuts and closures is part of its broader 1bn cost-saving plan.

Supermarket

Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2025

Woolworths has acknowledged this complexity and its impact across the business with a number of recent redundancies, including within Cartology, as the supermarket chain launches a separate Woolworths Retail division. To avoid this, develop joint marketing plans with a customer lens, not just a commercial one.

Marketing

Inside Retail

MARCH 16, 2025

Note that although Makro is billed as a wholesaler, its customer base includes an enthusiastic consumer segment that prefers the Makro bulk-buy experience and uses it as an alternative go-to for products it cannot get at a regular supermarket.

Wholesale

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Tesco is planning to open over 150 Express convenience stores in the UK over the next three years as it ramps up expansion plans. The supermarket opened the doors of the first Express store in Barnes and Norbury, London in 1994 and now operates a total of 2,704 of the convenience sites.

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

MARCH 6, 2025

The return of its former boss comes at a crucial time for Poundland as Pepco revealed on Thursday (6 March) that it was “actively evaluating” all strategic options to separate the discount business from the group, including a potential sale. Pepco has also put a pause on the retailer’s expansion plans for the year.

Returns

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Reviving Asda’s fortunes could take three to five years, according to Allan Leighton, the supermarket’s former CEO who has returned to drive its turnaround efforts. He will be spending three to five years with the supermarket chain , acknowledging that “it is going to take us that long to get it right.”

Grocer

Retail Gazette

APRIL 9, 2025

Aldi has overtaken Asda on food and drink sales in a fresh blow to the embattled supermarket chain. These figures are distributed privately to supermarkets and do not include sales ofalcohol, toiletries, household goods or beauty items. Aldi accounted for 10.6% Click here to sign up to Retail Gazettes free daily email newsletter

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The retailer found itself grappling with an over-inflated rent bill and increasing competition from Card Factory and the supermarkets, which forced it to call in its first set of administrators in May 2012. However, there was no return to form as Clintons hired restructuring advisers last year after racking up 5.4m

Planning

Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Loser: B&M B&M has been one of the losers of 2024, but it looks like it will continue to underperform in 2025, given its inability to match the powerful loyalty card discounts of its supermarket rivals in food and its failure to develop a credible presence in non-food online.

Department Stores

Retail Gazette

JUNE 25, 2025

Asda’s parent company slumped to a near £600m pre-tax loss last year as the supermarket group faced falling sales, heavy debt servicing costs and ongoing challenges migrating IT systems from former owner Walmart. The supermarket ’s £378m writedown on store values also weighed heavily on profits. already paid last year.

Supermarket

Small Biz Trends

JULY 14, 2025

Enhancing Customer Experience: A well-planned layout guides shoppers effortlessly through the store, encouraging exploration and engagement, ultimately leading to a more enjoyable shopping experience. Whether you’re browsing a cozy boutique or navigating a sprawling supermarket, the arrangement of products can make all the difference.

Store Layout

Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The supermarket giant has poached Lidl’s chief operating officer Matt Heslop as its new director of convenience and wholesale. Lebon brings over 39 years of experience in supermarket retailing, having most recently served as executive director of supermarkets and hypermarkets at Carrefour.

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

JUNE 13, 2025

The US investment firm, which paid a “nominal sum” for the retailer, has pledged to inject up to £80m to fund its proposed turnaround plan led by returning Poundland boss Barry Williams. Williams’ plan is being funded by former Laura Ashley owner Gordon Brothers.

Visual Merchandising

Retail Gazette

MARCH 13, 2025

John Lewis Partnership is making headway on its turnaround plan as the employee-owned business reported its profits had tripled in the last year to 126m. The supermarket also reported that on-demand grocery sales had skyrocketed 110% in the year as it extended opening hours for those ordering via Uber Eats and Deliveroo.

Department Stores

365 Retail

JANUARY 31, 2025

For example, a leading European supermarket chain reduced food waste by 25% after implementing expiry tracking through image recognition. Studies show inaccurate demand planning costs the FMCG industry $260 billion annually. These systems scan barcodes and packaging to identify products nearing the end of their shelf life.

Inventory Management

365 Retail

JUNE 5, 2025

The first ones will launch in summer, with plans for lockers at 100 stores. The lockers will add an additional convenient service for the community at Co-op stores, allowing people to drop off pre-labelled Royal Mail parcels and returns 24/7. Collection will also be available at the lockers soon.

ATS

Retail Gazette

MARCH 21, 2025

Aldi It emerged at the end of last month that Aldi was consulting over plans to restructure some of its head office divisions in a move that could see 350 roles at risk of redundancy. The supermarket chain is seeking to expand the amount of buying roles at its Atherstone head office. .” loss the year prior.

Fashion

Retail Gazette

MAY 19, 2025

Asda vice president for ambient, Ade McKeon, is stepping down from the business less than six months after rejoining the supermarket giant. Given the amount of work we have to do, it was felt that the time was right to make a change now and to implement the right succession plan, which we will communicate in due course.

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

MAY 13, 2025

On average, people plan to cut back in more categories than at the start of the year, from 3.8 Related Story Easter sales rise across UK supermarkets as shoppers seek out value 29/04/2025 x 11:49 AM In contrast, retirees historically the most financially secure group have seen their household finances fall sharply over the past year.

Consumer

Retail Gazette

MARCH 27, 2025

Hills recently led the revival of Asda’s Rollback campaign, which was brought back as the supermarket seeks to revive its fortunes. ” The news comes as the supermarket pushes forward with its turnaround programme, with former CEO Allan Leighton having returned as executive chairman to lead its recovery efforts in November. .”

Supermarket

365 Retail

JANUARY 2, 2025

Co-op has unveiled plans to bolster its convenience retail footprint in 2025 with 75 new store openings across the UK. Store Refurbishments to Enhance Customer Experience Alongside its expansion, Co-op plans to carry out major refurbishments in 80 stores during 2025.

Payment Services

I Vend

APRIL 2, 2025

Omnichannel Integration Your customers no longer differentiate between shopping online and in-store and often want to use a blend of channels within the one transaction such as ordering online and collecting in the store (click and collect), buying online and returning in the store (BORIS) or ordering in-store for home delivery.

Management

I Vend

APRIL 2, 2025

ERP integrations If, alongside your retail management software, you also run an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, then you definitely need to know that iVend has out of the box integrations for every ERP on the market. With iVend, you dont have that headache you simply have a full function retail management software system.

Management

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new supermarket concept Addie’s , a self-described “drive-up grocer,” has opened its first store in Norwood, Mass., ” The pandemic served as a propellent for online grocery, and many consumers aren’t returning to traditional in-store shopping: online grocery is expected to account for 20.5% fueled by $10.1 of all U.S.

Grocer

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

During the upcoming Retail Strategy & Planning Series , experts will explore these trends further to identify top tips and tactics for driving holiday sales results. data indicates that consumers are increasingly visiting multiple supermarkets to complete their shopping lists. In the key grocery category, Placer.ai

Merchant Services

Inside Retail

JULY 12, 2021

Discount supermarket Aldi is making a push into convenience with the opening this week of a Corner Store concept in North Sydney. The new store layout is designed to support smaller-basket, convenience-driven purchases, in contrast to the traditional big-box Aldi supermarket typically frequented by consumers for larger shopping trips.

Supermarket

Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Supermarket and convenience store sales grew 3.5 Total Tools saw the return of normal competitive market conditions following intense pricing pressure. The group’s food sales, excluding tobacco, surged 17.9 per cent, while its Superior Foods division jumped 8.7 Meanwhile, liquor segment sales climbed 2.7 per cent to $496.3

Supermarket

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

still plan to cook more at home. While this may sound positive for supermarkets, it also brings new challenges. First, supermarkets must determine exactly how much inventory to order so as not to waste food or purchase insufficient supplies. Innovating the in-store experience can give stores a great return on investment.

Supermarket

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2024

For those in Melbourne, stepping into the LaManna supermarket, in the northern suburb of Essendon Fields, is like taking the world’s shortest flight to Italy. To the LaManna customer, a trip to the supermarket is not an errand but an indulgence. LaManna’s defiance of the industry status quo means it is only just hitting its stride.

Supermarket

Inside Retail

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Seven & I plans to split off its supermarket operation and some 30 other “non-core” units into a holding company, York Holdings. Poor performance at the supermarket business hasn’t helped either, making the Japanese company a ripe target for a takeover bid from Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc, which owns Circle-K.

Planning

Inside Retail

AUGUST 21, 2023

Supermarket sales reached $36.7 per cent as customer shopping behaviour normalised with the return to in-store shopping. The sales growth was attributed to the retailer’s Dropped & Locked value campaigns and the successful execution of trade plans during Easter, Christmas and Mother’s Day. billion – up 5.3 billion, up 6.1

Supermarket

Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2024

Last year, Woolworths Group, the company behind Woolworths Supermarkets and Big W reportedly told staff they could choose to work on January 26 and take another off day at the discretion of their manager. The Woolworths Group are currently implementing their third Reconciliation Action Plan.

Supermarket

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 2, 2021

Kroger outlined plans to deliver total shareholder returns of 8% to 10% in 2021 at its virtual Investor Day, held March 31, 2021. Leadership pointed to two core areas for driving that growth: the fresh food segment and digital, which was described as “a growth engine” for the supermarket retailer, one of the nation’s biggest. .

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The chain’s value offer and rapidly expanding store network in recent years saw it overtake Morrisons to become the UK’s fourth largest supermarket in 2022. Its results are a stark contrast to Asda, which reported a return to profit earlier this year of £180m in the year to end of December 2023, up from a £432m loss in 2022.

Supermarket