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“Price Tags Go Digital: ESL Electronic Shelf Labels Reshape Supermarkets Overnight”
Supermarkets are rapidly upgrading their store floors with electronic shelf labels (ESL), replacing traditional paper price tags with dynamic digital displays that update prices in real time. The technology, already being rolled out across...
Aldi Continues Expansion Drive Despite Select Store Closure in U.S. Market
German discount supermarket giant Aldi has closed its Burnsville, Minnesota store, even as the retailer pushes ahead with a major international expansion strategy that includes opening hundreds of new locations across the United States....
Keppel Bay Coffee Expands into Supermarkets, Bringing Local Brews to More Australian Consumers
June 29, 2026 Australian specialty coffee producer Keppel Bay Coffee has announced a significant expansion into selected supermarket chains, making its locally roasted coffee more widely available to consumers across the country. The move...
UK MPs Push for Clearer Supermarket Food Labelling to Boost Consumer Transparency
Members of Parliament are calling on UK supermarkets to introduce clearer food labelling that distinguishes British-produced products from imported goods, arguing that shoppers deserve greater transparency about where their food comes from. The proposal...
Omnicom and Tesco Media to Use Real-Time Data to Transform In-Store Creative
Omnicom and Tesco Media are partnering to bring real-time, data-driven creative capabilities to in-store retail media, marking a significant step forward in how brands engage shoppers at the point of purchase. The collaboration will...
Retail theft rises as Three Lions roar through to World Cup Knockout Stages, with England’s match against Panama spiking shoplifting by +17%.
Instances of violence in retail stores also rose +5% on Sat 27 Jun ahead of the clash with Panama Retail theft on match days across all of England’s Group Stage games rose by...
The Secret Behind M&S’s Next Viral Sandwich
Last summer, M&S shoppers couldn’t get enough of the Strawberry & Creme Sandwich. The limited-edition launch became a social media sensation, with more than one million sandwiches sold in just five weeks. Now, M&S...
Ten Years After Ahold Delhaize: The Merger Regulators Should Still Be Studying
A Decade Later, One of Retail’s Most Successful Mergers Offers Lessons for the Future This summer marks ten years since the merger of Ahold and Delhaize, two supermarket groups whose histories stretched back more...
Precision now tops price in AI-led delivery demands, says Ingrid’s data, with twice as many shoppers preferring hyper-accurate fulfilment over low parcel fees
AI is ending the era when ‘fast and free’ expectations topped consumer demands for fulfilment, with precision now the number one factor shaping shoppers’ delivery demands Twice as many shoppers now want precision over...
Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard Joins Unprecedented Retail Alliance to Defend Price Negotiations
France’s largest food retailers have set aside their traditional rivalries to oppose proposed legislation they say could weaken their ability to negotiate prices with multinational consumer goods manufacturers and ultimately raise costs for shoppers....