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

ISN Magazine19 August 2026

by ISN Magazine19 August 20260

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 Magazine19 August 2026

by ISN Magazine19 August 20260

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 Magazine19 August 2026

by ISN Magazine19 August 20260

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...

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America’s Supermarkets Are Closing Stores — While Buying More Supermarkets

ISN Magazine19 August 2026

by ISN Magazine19 August 20260

The US grocery industry is entering a strange new phase: retailers are getting bigger through acquisitions while becoming smaller on the ground. Something unusual is happening in American grocery retail. Supermarket groups are buying...

Mercadona’s 70 Robots: Is This the Supermarket Warehouse of the Future?

ISN Magazine19 August 2026

by ISN Magazine19 August 20260

Spain’s supermarket giant is betting €54 million on automation. The bigger question is whether robots can finally solve one of grocery retail’s biggest problems: making online shopping work at scale. Mercadona has taken another...

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The New Supermarket Shelf Is Invisible — And AI Decides What Goes on It

ISN Magazine19 August 2026

by ISN Magazine19 August 20260

The next battle between supermarkets and brands may not be fought in the aisles. It may be fought inside the answers shoppers receive from AI. For more than a century, supermarkets understood one fundamental...

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The CMA Has Drawn a Line Under Britain’s Supermarket Past

ISN Magazine19 August 2026

by ISN Magazine19 August 20260

Why Britain’s competition watchdog believes Aldi and Lidl have outgrown the rules that once made them different For years, Britain had a simple distinction in supermarket retail. There were the big grocery chains —...

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Lidl’s Biggest Problem May Not Be Prices — It’s Space

ISN Magazine19 August 2026

by ISN Magazine19 August 20260

The discounter is still expanding fast. But Britain’s supermarket property battle is changing Lidl has spent years fighting for one thing above almost everything else: space. Not shelf space. Not advertising space. Land. Every...

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Aldi and Lidl: The Discounters Have Become Too Big for the Old Rules

ISN Magazine19 August 2026

by ISN Magazine19 August 20260

The UK’s supermarket rulebook is finally catching up with the discount revolution For years, Aldi and Lidl were the outsiders of British grocery retail. They were the supermarkets that operated differently. Smaller ranges. Smaller...

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Bakers Basco Returns to the Isle of Man and Isle of Wight After 18 Years to Tackle Supply Chain Equipment Misuse

ISN Magazine19 August 2026

by ISN Magazine19 August 20260

London, Bakers Basco’s investigations team has completed its first operational visits to the Isle of Man and Isle of Wight in almost two decades, recovering more than 340 pieces of bakery equipment and strengthening...