Supermarkets
The Ashes of Albertsons and the $1.65B Giant Eagle Pivot: Kroger’s New Frontier
By Riad Beladi Since the very first whispers of the ill-fated Kroger-Albertsons mega-merger echoed through corporate boardrooms years ago, International Supermarket News reporters have been on the ground. We stood in the humid corporate...
Ocado’s New Ingredient Aisle Puts Food Manufacturers Under Pressure to Be More Transparent
Shoppers want to know what is in their food, and retailers are responding Food manufacturers have spent years competing on price, brand recognition, convenience and taste. Now another question is becoming harder to ignore:...
EU Food Safety Proposals Could Have Important Consequences for Food Importers
Proposed changes to European Union food and feed safety requirements could have implications for food manufacturers, importers and supermarket buyers, particularly businesses managing complex international supply chains. The Council of the European Union announced...
Tesco’s New Rules on Food Additives Put Pressure on Suppliers to Reformulate
Tesco’s decision to restrict or remove 114 additives from its own-brand products puts the spotlight on a challenge facing food manufacturers: how to respond when a major retailer changes its expectations of what should...
Lidl Plans More Than 50 New UK Stores as Discount Competition Intensifies
Lidl GB plans to open more than 50 stores during its current financial year as part of a £600 million investment programme, continuing its expansion in a British supermarket market where discount retailers have...
Tesco Raises Profit Forecast as Sales Growth Continues to Lag Behind Earnings
Tesco has raised the lower end of its annual profit forecast after reporting higher profits for the first half of its financial year, underlining the supermarket group’s ability to improve its financial performance in...
Possible Sainsbury’s-Morrisons Merger Raises Regulator Questions
A possible merger between Sainsbury’s and Morrisons could face a major test from UK competition regulators if the two supermarket groups return to the negotiating table. Sainsbury’s held preliminary talks with Morrisons earlier this...
Who Will Control the Grocery Basket — The Shopper, the Supermarket or AI?
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...
Retail Never Stands Still
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...
Morrisons Is Taking the Colleague Out of Click & Collect — Is This the Next Step for Grocery?
Morrisons is testing a new way of handling online grocery collection that could have consequences well beyond faster customer pick-up. At its Skipton store in North Yorkshire, the supermarket has introduced temperature-controlled Click &...