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  • John Lewis planning to lure hundreds of engineers as it plots big retail push online

    70 per cent of sales now online

    Retail giant the John Lewis Partnership is zooming in further on its online operations as it is planning to recruit for more than 150 roles in engineering and delivery driving. John Lewis, which also owns Waitrose supermarket, said its recruitment drive will help grow its online stores, which together have more than 55m visits a [...]

  • Sainsbury’s and Waitrose ‘investigating as a matter of urgency’ after worker at sushi supplier has finger tips cut off

    Sushi hell

    Waitrose and Sainsbury’s are investigating “as a matter of urgency” after a worker had finger tips chopped off in Taiko Foods’ factory, which supplies sushi to the retailers. The retailers are looking into the incident, in which Viraj Kakadia operated reportedly unsafe and dangerous vegetable cutting machine at the Taiko Foods factory in Acton. The [...]

  • 35 per cent of Brits admit bulk buying amid war and inflation shortage fears, report claims

    Cost of living crunch

    Warnings have been made against claims of stockpiling food after a report claimed 35 per cent have bulk bought items recently. Consumers are reportedly purchasing items in scenes reminiscent of the start of the pandemic, amid concerns about falling production for items such as wheat and oil, impacted by the war in Ukraine.  Items such [...]

  • Waitrose left with £4m hole in pocket after brief deal with online partner

    April 12, 2022

    Supermarket Waitrose is owed some £4m after a four-month partnership with an insolvent venture launched by an Ocado founder. According to a report in The Times newspaper, Waitrose is the second-largest trade creditor of online grocery business Today Development Partners, which collapsed last month. This was laid out in a progress report by administrators at [...]

  • Waitrose makes headway into home delivery through Mindful Chef partnership

    December 29, 2021

    Supermarket Waitrose has partnered up with Mindful Chef, a British company that delivers recipes and ingredients to people’s homes, in a bid to capitalise on the trend propelled during the pandemic. The news comes as the online food delivery industry has become increasingly popular during the pandemic, and just weeks after Asda announced its own [...]

  • Sheepish: Waitrose to work with lamb sector after carbon footprint row

    November 18, 2021

    The National Sheep Association (NSA) and Waitrose have agreed to work together to raise awareness of UK sheep farming’s “positive impact on the environment,” following a row. The NSA slammed supermarkets for bleating “misinformation” about lamb’s carbon footprint this week. It criticised Waitrose for recommending customers could slash their impact on the planet by eating [...]

  • Supermarkets urge shoppers to keep masks on after 19 July

    July 15, 2021

    Supermarkets are urging customers to continue wearing masks even after 19 July, when they will no longer be a legal requirement in England. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that from Monday 19 July, dubbed ‘Freedom Day’, almost all pandemic restrictions will be lifted including the legal requirement to wear masks. Instead the public will [...]

  • John Lewis and Waitrose to cut 1000 jobs

    July 14, 2021

    John Lewis Partnership, the parent company of the two high street giants, has confirmed plans to cut around 1000 management roles in stores. In a move that echoes rival retailers’ attempts to weather the pandemic, the company said the 1000 role redundancies were an attempt to simplify store management structures. A John Lewis Partnership spokesperson [...]

  • Waitrose expands Deliveroo partnership to 150 stores, creating 400 jobs

    April 27, 2021

    Waitrose has expanded its partnership with Deliveroo as it aims to ramps up its online delivery capabilities, in a move that will create up to 400 new jobs. The supermarket announced this morning that it will increase the number of Waitrose shops available on the delivery app from 40 to 150, serving around 13m people.  [...]

  • Waitrose opens new London warehouse in online delivery push

    March 4, 2021

    Waitrose has opened a new London warehouse in partnership with Wincanton in a bid to boost its online delivery capacity.  The supermarket, which last year ended its partnership with Ocado, said the warehouse in Greenford will deliver 25,000 orders each week and employ an extra 800 staff when it opens fully later this year. That [...]

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