Morrisons slashes prices AGAIN as supermarket attempts to woo Aldi and Lidl shoppers back to its aisles March 20, 2023 Morrisons is slashing prices for the third time in three months as it attempts to drag shoppers back from value retailers including Aldi and Lidl. The supermarket said it was cutting the prices of 460 items such as beef mince, cleaning products and fruit, in a move that followed on from a round of price [...]
Aldi to lift restrictions on fresh produce as shortages ease March 11, 2023 Aldi said it will remove all customer limits on buying fresh produce as supply issues which led to widespread shortages begin to ease. The supermarket joins Lidl and Asda in lifting restrictions. Aldi said in a statement on Saturday: “From Monday (March 13), Aldi will remove all purchasing restrictions on fresh produce – including limits [...]
Food shortage: Tomatoes are back on the menu as supermarkets begin to lift customer limits on fruit and veg March 10, 2023 Supermarkets have started to drop customer limits on buying certain fresh fruit and vegetables as food shortage issues that led to widespread shortages begin to ease. Asda confirmed it had removed limits of three on cucumbers, lettuce, salad bags, broccoli, cauliflower and raspberries, leaving restrictions of three on just tomatoes and peppers. The supermarket said [...]
Cost of living fears don’t stop Brits spending record £12bn in supermarkets in run-up to Christmas January 4, 2023 BRITS brushed off cost of living and recession fears to spend a record £12bn in UK supermarkets in the run-up to Christmas.
Aldi posts record December sales of £1.4bn after Christmas and World Cup surge January 3, 2023 Aldi today said it had achieved record December sales of more than £1.4bn following a surge in demand over the winter month, as the Christmas period coincided with the World Cup in Qatar. The budget supermarket said its sales increased 26 per cent during December, despite the UK’s cost-of-living crisis, due to surging demand for meats, cheeses [...]
Prime: Aldi limits sale of KSI-Logan Paul energy drink after store carnage goes viral December 29, 2022 Discount store Aldi has been forced to limit sales of a new energy drink made by KSI and Logan Paul after customers were shown clamouring to buy the item. A video shared on Twitter by a user called Mark Hall showed raucous Aldi shoppers grabbing the drink today, with staff members attempting to only allow [...]
Aldi kickstarts festive hiring spree with 3,000 new jobs this Christmas October 6, 2022 Aldi has launched its festive hiring spree, revealing plans to create around 3,000 new jobs this Christmas. The discounter has created more than 2,000 temporary and permanent store jobs this winter. It also unveiled plans for more than 850 roles across its 11 regional distribution centres around the UK, for jobs including warehouse selectors, logistics [...]
Aldi: Low prices ‘more important to us than short term profit’ September 26, 2022 Discount Aldi has said it has seen an extra 1.5m customers switch to shopping at its supermarkets over the past three months. The supermarket was recently declared the country’s fourth biggest, knocking Morrisons down the list, according to Kantar data. In full-year results to the end of December 2021, the budget retailer posted an 87 [...]
Investors to examine retailers’ books for signs of spending slump September 25, 2022 Investors will be parsing over a slew of results from top retailers for signs of a slowdown in consumer spending in response to an economic slump. London’s premier FTSE 100 index notched a poor performance last week, shedding 3.62 per cent to close at 7,018.60 points, mainly driven by a sharp sell off on Friday [...]
Revealed: These are Britain’s most popular companies to work for September 21, 2022 New research has revealed the top companies Brits want to work for the most. The data shared with City A.M. analysed the top searches for jobs and careers on Google, to see which private sector companies Brits are keenest to work for currently. Tesco came out as the most popular company, with the multinational supermarket seeing [...]