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Waitrose revamps ‘Good Health’ logo in response to customer demand for cleaner ingredients

riad beladi29 September 2026

by riad beladi29 September 20260

New criteria put positive nutrition and ingredient transparency at the heart of Waitrose’s updated Good Health logo Waitrose has announced an evolution of its ‘Good Health’ logo, introducing ingredient criteria alongside nutritional standards to...

Kroger Wants AI to Manage the Grocery Basket

riad beladi28 September 202629 September 2026

by riad beladi28 September 202629 September 20260

By ISN James Taylor The next big change in grocery retail may not be another delivery service, loyalty promotion or new supermarket format. It could be the moment when the customer stops planning the...

Walmart Has Discovered the Real Power of Grocery — Getting America to Come Back

riad beladi28 September 202629 September 2026

by riad beladi28 September 202629 September 20260

By ISN Editorial Staff | International Supermarket News edited by Riad Beladi Walmart’s grocery story is becoming much more interesting than simply being the largest player in the American food market. The real value...

Giles Hurley’s Aldi Blueprint: Understanding the Consumer, the Market and Where to Expand

riad beladi28 September 202628 September 2026

by riad beladi28 September 202628 September 20260

By Riad Beladi There is a difference between simply running a supermarket chain and understanding where the supermarket needs to be five years from now. Looking at Aldi UK’s latest moves, Giles Hurley appears...

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Beyond the Food Aisle: James Taylor Interviews Riad Beladi on the New Economics of Supermarket Space

riad beladi28 September 202628 September 2026

by riad beladi28 September 202628 September 20260

By James Taylor As supermarket margins remain under pressure, retailers are looking at their stores differently. The traditional focus on selling more food from every aisle is increasingly being joined by another question: how...

Is Dynamic Pricing About to Change the Way UK Supermarkets Mark Down Food?

riad beladi28 September 2026

by riad beladi28 September 20260

For years, the yellow sticker has been one of the most familiar signs of supermarket life in the UK. A product approaching its use-by date gets marked down, a member of staff puts the...

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Why North Africa Is Moving Closer to the Centre of Europe’s Fresh Produce Strategy

riad beladi28 September 2026

by riad beladi28 September 20260

For European supermarket buyers, the biggest change taking place in fresh produce may not be happening on the shelf at all. It is happening several hundred kilometres away, where retailers are reconsidering where their...

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GLP-1 and the Ultra-Dense Grocery Paradigm: Is the Supermarket Basket Getting Smaller?

riad beladi28 September 2026

by riad beladi28 September 20260

For years, supermarket category managers have been trained to think in terms of volume: bigger packs, larger baskets, promotional multipacks and high-frequency consumption. But a new consumer behaviour is beginning to challenge that model....

Iceland Foods brings AI-assisted decision intelligence to food waste reduction

riad beladi28 September 2026

by riad beladi28 September 20260

London, UK – Iceland Foods has partnered with Retail Insight, the AI-powered retail operations platform trusted by the world’s leading retailers, to deploy its AI-powered WasteInsight solution as part of the retailer’s continued focus on...

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Over half of shoppers say stores suffer from operational blind spots, with lack of visibility creating friction for bricks-and-mortar customers.

riad beladi28 September 2026

by riad beladi28 September 20260

London, UK — A lack of real-time visibility and operational blind spots within physical retail are creating preventable friction points in shoppers’ bricks-and-mortar buying journeys, according to the latest data from SAI, the leading...