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PodcastWhy Morrisons is struggling to manage the Sean Egan backlash
Morrisons is defending its dismissal of a store manager following a shoplifter altercation, but protesters and public sentiment suggest the reputational damage may outweigh policy compliance
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NewsM&S asks shoppers to round up their shopping bill to fight food poverty
The initiative is part of M&S’s work with Alliance Food Sourcing, a collaboration between retailers, suppliers and charities formed in 2024 as a result of the Coronation Food Project
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NewsAsda gives £3.2m to community groups to tackle food insecurity and social isolation
Funding was prioritised to address challenges such as food insecurity, social isolation, and mental health and wellbeing
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NewsHospitality sales fall 18% from Tube strikes with pub revenue halved
On Tuesday 21 April alone, pubs saw revenues fall 46%, while cafés experienced a 26% drop
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NewsIceland CEO Tarsem Dhaliwal to run London Marathon
Dhaliwal has pledged to contribute 50p for every £1 donated to Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation out of his own personal pocket.
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NewsTube strikes to have ‘devastating impact’ on hospitality, trade body warns
Hospitality businesses could experience sales falling ‘by up to 40% on strike days’
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NewsCompany Shop Group celebrates redistributing a billion items
It includes 117 million items in the past 12 months alone, amounting to 47,000 tonnes of food and drink, according to its latest impact report
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NewsAldi gifting £300,000 to fund 50 apprenticeships in childcare
The gift has enabled chilcare provider Partou to recruit 50 additional apprentices
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News‘We have to be twice as loud’: women leaders speak out on barriers in convenience
At the National Convenience Show at the NEC in Birmingham this week, a group of women leaders discussed the obstacles they had faced as they navigated a challenging convenience sector
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Grocer 33Sainsbury’s Emma Hill on hitting high standards during busiest ever Easter
‘You have to take your manager glasses off and look at things through a customer’s eyes’
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Comment & OpinionWhy the Co‑op merger matters – and the timing speaks volumes
Co-op has faced a whirlwind of problems recently, but the merger isn’t necessarily a knee-jerk reaction
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NewsLA Foods extends contract with Co-op Wholesale for five more years
The convenience retailer, which operates 13 Nisa stores across London, said the extension meant it could continue benefiting from Co-op Wholesale’s competitive pricing, availability, and own-brand range
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NewsAsda leads the way on closing hourly gender pay gap
Figures filed with the government’s Gender Pay Gap Service show Asda has the smallest mean hourly gender pay gap for the third year in a row
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Comment & OpinionWomen don’t need new beer, they need new reasons to buy it
Beer marketing has historically been aimed at men, says Ruth Stubbs, EMEA CEO at Wavemaker. Here’s how to change that
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NewsThe Bread and Butter Thing founder named new boss of of FoodCycle charity
Game, founder of affordable food clubs charity The Bread and Butter Thing, will join FoodCycle in mid-April
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NewsSupermarkets to launch biggest-ever joint food poverty campaign
Retailers are launching this year’s Let’s Make a Meal of It campaign next week
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NewsIran war sparks fears of food redistribution ‘crisis’
Leading charities told The Grocer that the redistribution sector was staring at a ‘cliff-edge’
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NewsIceland and The Range join retail collective to highlight risk of prostate cancer
The ‘Retail Together’ campaign, which also includes Wilko and Homebase, has partnered with Prostate Cancer UK to launch an information and fundraising campaign aimed at educating shoppers about their risk of prostate cancer
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Comment & OpinionUK health messaging should follow the Danish example
The UK population is broadly aware of many sensible health messages, yet all are seemingly impossible to achieve, says Anthony Warner, development chef at New Food Innovation
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NewsLidl donates £110,000 to charities across the country
Lidl store staff chose causes in their area to receive £500 each