Supermarkets
Morrisons Cuts Almost 5,000 Jobs as Supermarket Pushes Through Major Restructuring
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...
Ice Cream Brand Files for Bankruptcy After $23.8m Packaging Battle
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,...
What Can 3,000 Algerian Dinars Really Buy? The €50 Question
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....
Walmart Is Becoming More Than a Supermarket — And That Should Worry Every Grocery Competitor
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...
Two Cases. Two Minutes. One Person: Delivering 1,000 Liters of Drinking Water an Hour
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,...
America’s Supermarkets Are Closing Stores — While Buying More Supermarkets
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...
The New Supermarket Shelf Is Invisible — And AI Decides What Goes on It
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...
The CMA Has Drawn a Line Under Britain’s Supermarket Past
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 —...
Lidl’s Biggest Problem May Not Be Prices — It’s Space
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...
Aldi and Lidl: The Discounters Have Become Too Big for the Old Rules
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...