Supermarkets
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 &...
Walmart Is Making More Money, But It Is Also Taking a Hard Look at Its Corporate Workforce
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’s Next Battle May Be Inside the Company, Not Against Walmart
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...
Tesco’s 2026 Agri-Tech Challenge: Two Winners and the Innovation British Farmers Need to Scale
Tesco has announced the winners of its 2026 Agri-tech Challenge, highlighting two very different technologies aimed at tackling some of the practical challenges facing British agriculture. AgroSustain has won the early-stage category with its...
Demand Soars for Nitrite-Free Meat as Waitrose Expands Clean-Label Range
Demand for meat products made without added nitrites is gathering pace, with Waitrose expanding its range after sales increased by 34% over the past year. The retailer is now taking the trend beyond sliced...
The Supermarket Basket Is Changing — And Retailers Are Watching What Shoppers Leave Behind
The biggest change taking place in grocery may not be happening on the shelves at all. It is happening inside the shopping basket. Across modern grocery retail, the traditional weekly supermarket shop is being...
Auchan’s French Reset: 266 Supermarkets, No Closures and a Very Different Retail Map
Auchan is completing one of the most significant supermarket network transformations in France, but the headline is not simply about stores being sold. It is about what happens when a major retailer decides that...
AEON’s Vietnam Bet: Why 300 Supermarkets Could Change Asia’s Grocery Map
Japan’s AEON is making one of the clearest statements yet about where it believes the next generation of supermarket growth will come from. The retailer is targeting around 300 supermarkets in Vietnam, alongside 30...