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Giles Hurley’s Aldi Blueprint: Understanding the Consumer, the Market and Where to Expand
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...
Beyond the Food Aisle: James Taylor Interviews Riad Beladi on the New Economics of Supermarket Space
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?
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...
Why North Africa Is Moving Closer to the Centre of Europe’s Fresh Produce Strategy
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...
GLP-1 and the Ultra-Dense Grocery Paradigm: Is the Supermarket Basket Getting Smaller?
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
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...
Over half of shoppers say stores suffer from operational blind spots, with lack of visibility creating friction for bricks-and-mortar customers.
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...
The technology moving more than 1.5 million kilos of fresh produce to hundreds of Aldi stores daily
Aldi’s Bardon automated distribution centre reaches a major milestone as fresh produce operations begin • Facility will process more than 1.5 million kilograms of fruit and vegetables every day during peak operations • Advanced...
ISN Investigates: If Consumers Still Have to Eat, Why Are UK Supermarkets Cutting Supplier Orders?
ISN Investigation | UK Grocery Retail Something is not adding up in the latest UK retail figures — and it may be what happens next that matters most. UK retailers have cut orders from...
Alexandre Bompard Warns: Fresh Produce Prices Could Be Entering a New European Era
Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard has put fresh produce firmly back into the European inflation debate, warning that the sharp rise in fruit and vegetable prices is already visible on French supermarket shelves. But for...