August 2026

Aldi and Lidl: The Quiet Discounters That Could Win the Next Five Years

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By R Beladi For years, Aldi and Lidl quietly built something that is now proving extremely difficult for Britain’s traditional supermarkets to challenge: a powerful reputation for value, competitive prices and good-quality products. When...

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Morrisons Cuts Almost 5,000 Jobs as Supermarket Pushes Through Major Restructuring

ISN Magazine20th August 2026

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Morrisons has cut almost 5,000 jobs over the past year as the supermarket continues a major programme of restructuring, cost reduction and automation. The scale of the reduction was revealed in the retailer’s latest...

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Ice Cream Brand Files for Bankruptcy After $23.8m Packaging Battle

ISN Magazine20th August 2026

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A US ice cream brand sold through supermarkets has filed for bankruptcy after losing a major court battle over the design of its packaging. Rebel Creamery, known for its low-carb and keto-friendly ice cream,...

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What Can 3,000 Algerian Dinars Really Buy? The €50 Question

ISN Magazine20th August 2026

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A comment from an Algerian government minister has sparked an interesting debate about the real value of money — and whether €50 in Europe can really buy less than 3,000 Algerian dinars in Algeria....

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The Mass Market: Why the Most Successful Retailers Understand One Simple Rule

ISN Magazine19th August 2026

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By Riad Beladi The biggest retail successes rarely come from trying to sell to everybody at any price. They come from understanding the mass market, offering value that millions of people can afford and...

The Consumer Has Learned to Trade Down — And Supermarkets May Never Be the Same

ISN Magazine19th August 2026

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Years of food inflation have changed the way people shop. Consumers are comparing prices more carefully, experimenting with private-label products and becoming increasingly comfortable with discount supermarkets. The biggest question for the grocery industry...

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Walmart Is Becoming More Than a Supermarket — And That Should Worry Every Grocery Competitor

ISN Magazine19th August 2026

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Walmart’s biggest advantage may no longer be its size. It is the fact that groceries are only one part of the shopping relationship it has built with millions of American households. For decades, Walmart’s...

Kroger Has a Foot-Traffic Problem — Or Does It? The Numbers Tell Two Different Stories

ISN Magazine19th August 2026

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America’s supermarket giant says more customers are coming through its doors. Analyst data suggests the opposite. Behind the disagreement is a much bigger question: are shoppers still choosing traditional supermarkets in the same way?...

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Two Cases. Two Minutes. One Person: Delivering 1,000 Liters of Drinking Water an Hour

ISN Magazine19th August 2026

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Portable Swedish water system keeps soldiers, firefighters and communities supplied when normal water supplies fail STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 19, 2026 – When a wildfire cuts off a community, a disaster damages a water network,...

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Mercadona Has a Lidl Problem in Portugal — and the Next Battle Is Just Beginning

ISN Magazine19th August 2026

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Spain’s Mercadona has built a powerful position in Portugal, but the latest figures suggest that Lidl is proving much harder to catch than expected. The real question is whether Mercadona can turn rapid expansion...