Retail Gazette

MAY 20, 2025

Asda is looking to sell around 20 stores for 400m to help fund its turnaround plan. The supermarket chain is planning to offload the shops located across the UK and lease them back for the next 20 years. Sale-and-leaseback deals are popular among supermarkets as a means of raising capital to boost their balance sheet.

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

However, Leighton certainly has his work cut out for him this time around, as the struggling supermarket continues to flounder. He told The Guardian that he had committed to spending three to five years with the supermarket chain, acknowledging that “it is going to take us that long to get it right.” as sales fell 5.5%

Supermarket

Inside Retail

JULY 9, 2025

Aldi has long stood apart in Australia’s fiercely competitive supermarket sector by boasting low prices and no frills, minimal marketing. But the German-founded supermarket chain is entering a new era that embraces convenience, without compromising its core identity. One of the most important being price parity,” Sperti said.

Supermarket

Retail Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

Aldi is set to continue its expansion in Scotland, confirming today it plans to invest more than 40m over the next two years, opening three new stores in Arbroath, Baillieston and Kirkintilloch in 2025. Both initiatives will return in 2025, with Supermarket Sweep celebrating its tenth year.

Supermarket

Small Biz Trends

JULY 25, 2025

Designing an effective retail shop floor plan is vital for enhancing customer experience and boosting sales. You need to take into account factors like customer flow, product placement , and the overall shopping environment. Understand Customer Flow How can comprehension of customer flow transform your retail shop ?

Planning

Retail Gazette

JULY 15, 2025

Co-op has supported Labour’s plans to raise business rates for supermarkets and department stores, which the grocersaid will “support local shops” Speaking to Retail Week, a Co-op spokesman said that the supermarket backed chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plans to overhaul business rates at the next autumn Budget.

Supermarket

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% last year as consumers headed elsewhere for their weekly grocery shop.

Planning

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Retailers have long been obsessed with expanding their product ranges product diversification and line extension have been critical for supermarkets to keep pace with online marketplaces like Amazon. However, Australias leading supermarkets are changing tack. per cent to $739 million and earnings before interest and tax fell 14.2

Supermarket

Inside Retail

MARCH 16, 2025

Next-generation automation and technology are streamlining waste management costs for retailers and shopping centres across Australia, saving significant costs and boosting sustainability outcomes. The device can also track how many bales are processed, providing excellent planning and cost management resources.

Management

Retail Gazette

JUNE 18, 2025

Waitrose has confirmed that its first new full-line supermarket in seven years will open in Bristol in 2027. It will offer Waitrose’s range of food, feature its fresh food counters, as well as online grocery shopping and on-demand grocery service.

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Mike Ashley-controlled retail empire said the fashion business had “consistently missed its business plan targets and, notwithstanding support from the group, has continued to make material losses”. FRP had explored a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) for The Body Shop following a shop closure and redundancy programme.

Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 12, 2025

The unit will be led by Yael Cosset, currently the supermarket retailers CIO, in his new position as EVP and Chief Digital Officer. Cosset will continue to oversee technology and data along with supervising the new online shopping unit. Kroger has been seeking to gain forward momentum in recent months.

Finance

Retail Gazette

APRIL 15, 2025

Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com has test launched a UK grocery supermarket website, called Joybuy. Although shopping on the website is currently available to customers with certain London postcodes, the retailer said there would be more cities coming soon.

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2025

The supermarket giant shaved as much as 4m off its expectations for the forthcoming yearas chief executive Ken Murphy looks to safeguard the grocer’s market share of 28.5% – its highest level since 2016.

Planning

Retail Gazette

JULY 2, 2025

M&S and Asda, alongside major food producers have criticised Labour’s new proposal forcing supermarkets to reduce calories in customers’ baskets or face fines. The plan, part of Labour’s forthcoming 10-year health strategy, aims to cut up to 100 calories from average shopping baskets.

Planning

Retail Gazette

JANUARY 10, 2025

It’s hold on the market rose to 28.5% – the highest of any supermarket – boosted by growth across its convenience, superstore and online channels. As both supermarkets toast to their “biggest-ever” Christmases, what can Sainsbury’s and Tesco tell us about the main trading trends over the festive period?

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

One in ten shop floor workers are expected to exit retail by 2028, campaign group the Retail Jobs Alliance (RJA) has warned. Retail executives have now said they could face even higher costs due to a planned business rates revamp, where the Treasury is set to raise tax rates for large properties and decrease them for small shops.

Shopping

Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

With the evolution of retail media networks, brands and retailers are seizing the opportunity to shape consumer behaviour in real-time, using in-store touch points to elevate the shopping experience. Then, if we compare that to a week where we had no in-store retail media, it was an uplift of 76.8

Promotions

Retail Gazette

APRIL 10, 2025

The service will initially be available to customers shopping through Tescos online platform, where they will be informed that Deliveroo powers the delivery service. The Tesco Whoosh trial is the first step in what could be a wider rollout of the service across more locations in Ireland, with expansion plans in place for the future.

Grocer

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

The 570 -store Midwestern supermarket retailer Hy-Vee will expand its partnership with Instacart by adopting the platforms Carrot Ads solution. This will also simultaneously improve the customer shopping experience through ad tech capabilities that drive ad personalization and make product discovery easier.

Advertising

Retail Gazette

JULY 28, 2025

Shop price inflation accelerated again in July, driven by a sixth consecutive monthly rise in food prices, according to new figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and NIQ. The latest BRC-NIQ Shop Price Index shows overall shop price inflation rose to 0.7% in July, up from 0.2% Food inflation rose to 4%, up from 3.7%

Customer Retention

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Deliveroo has partnered with Singaporean supermarket chain Sheng Siong, bringing more than 5000 grocery essentials, including fresh produce, pantry essentials and household goods, onto the platform. This partnership is a strategic response to evolving consumer demands, with the grocery delivery market projected to grow by 18.1

Inventory Management

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. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazettes free daily email newsletter

Payment Services

Small Biz Trends

JUNE 9, 2025

Key Takeaways Sustainability Focus: Package-free shops promote eco-friendly shopping by eliminating plastic packaging and encouraging the use of reusable containers, fostering a commitment to sustainable retail practices. Welcome to the world of package-free shops, where eco-conscious consumers like you can shop guilt-free.

Shopping

Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2025

This wasn’t a planned media buy – it was organic, user-driven buzz amplified by algorithmic force. Its ongoing partnerships with beauty influencers and branded hashtag challenges have helped position the discounter as more than just cheap medicine – it’s where Gen Z shops for skincare. The other piece of the puzzle is TikTok Shop.

Checkout

Retail Gazette

MARCH 9, 2025

Asda is selling off some of its supermarket car parks as it looks to pay down its mounting debt pile. The developers could bid to take all five sites on 125-year leases or purchase individual locations, which can be turned into new homes or shops, Newsteer said.

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

JUNE 30, 2025

The supermarket’ s growth is fuelled by “consistently great value, outstanding quality and excellent availability,” according to CEO Simon Roberts, who highlighted the retailer’s expanded Aldi Price Match campaign which covers around 800 everyday essentials.

Marketing

Retail Gazette

MARCH 7, 2025

The supermarket’s store, which opened in late February, is the first to feature the updated design and layout, and is being followed by similar changes at two new London locations, Sainsburys Bermondsey Square and Sloane Avenue. Related Story Are supermarkets right to scale back on Aldi price match?

Supermarket

Retail Gazette

JULY 9, 2025

Tesco has unveiled plans to build a new multimillion-pound distribution hub at the DP World London Gateway shopping terminal, forecast to launch in 2029. Greggs also unveiled plans for a new national distribution centre in North Northamptonshire last year, in partnership with property developer Tritax Symmetry.

Grocer

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

Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Potential Australian examples Coles and Woolworths: Both major Australian supermarkets have been exploring various technologies, including robotic cleaning and automated inventory management. The adoption of customer-facing robots might follow as a natural extension of these back-end applications.

Inventory Management

Inside Retail

MARCH 10, 2025

Traditionally, major retailers worldwide have had to rely on local government data and interpreting planning policies to determine where to land bank for future developments and where to consider rebuilding, upgrading or expanding existing stores. Their insights help communities and decision-makers plan for the future.

Location

365 Retail

JANUARY 20, 2025

The openings are part of a larger 650 million UK-wide investment in the year ahead, reflecting the supermarkets commitment to offering high-quality, affordable groceries to more shoppers across the country. Aldi is set to expand its footprint in London by opening nine new stores within the M25 in 2025 as part of a 55 million investment.

Supermarket

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2025

Loblaws is expanding its partnership with DoorDash by allowing members of the retailer’s PC Optimum loyalty program to earn points with their DoorDash purchases, whether they are made at Loblaws supermarkets or at restaurants or other merchants’ stores. DoorDash has partnered with Loblaws for delivery services since June 2023.

Merchant Services

Retail Gazette

JULY 9, 2025

The restructure will see the supermarket’s section manager and trading manager roles combined into a new simplified manager position, The Grocer reported. The new managers will report into Asda’s operations managers, with the supermarket also appointing new operations managers in some of its larger stores.

Management

Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Holland & Barrett is planning to open up to 50 new stores in the UK next year as it ramps up its expansion plans. However, there’s partners in those retail parks, be that Tesco or Next or whoever, who actually have spare space and want to make their offer more interesting to the customers that shop with them.”

Grocer

Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The family business has around 175 stores across the UK, the bulk of which trade as Cardzone shops, however, it also operates Hallmark, Yankee Candle, Mooch, Paper Kisses and Card Centre. ” He says that is “going to mean some pain this year” with its brand strategy and growth plan coming into force from 2025 onwards.

Planning