October 2026

For decades, supermarkets have competed for the shopper’s attention. They have invested in bigger stores, better websites, loyalty programmes, promotions, search functions and increasingly sophisticated personalisation. But the next battle may take place before...

Over the last three decades, I have spent my time monitoring and covering the retail industry across Europe and North America. After all these years, I have come to one conclusion: retail is one...

Walmart is in an unusual position. The world’s biggest retailer continues to produce strong financial numbers, but behind the sales growth the company is also removing jobs and reorganising parts of its corporate technology...

Kroger is facing a very different problem now. The supermarket giant spent years trying to become bigger through its proposed $24.6bn takeover of Albertsons. That deal collapsed. Now the question is how Kroger becomes...