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Lidl Plus launches in Ireland
The Republic of Ireland has become the tenth country where Lidl has launched its loyalty app, Lidl Plus. What is it? The Lidl Plus app offers the following features: Wee...
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PepsiCo sells more snacks, fewer soft drinks
PepsiCo saw its turnover drop 3.1 % in the three months until 13 June, but took heart from the encouraging sales growth of its cereals. PepsiCo's quarterly turnover went down to 15.95 billion ...
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Carrefour hopes to save loss-making hypermarkets with technology
More than half of the French Carrefour hypermarkets are loss-making. The supermarket group is investing in mobile payment options and an Amazon Go variant to make shopping as easy as possible. ...
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Britain wants to ban promotions on junk food
British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons launches an assault on obesity: he wants to ban promotions for unhealthy food in supermarkets. The corona crisis has strengthened his conviction, he says. ...
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Latest rapid delivery developments
Asda is partnering with Uber Eats to offer grocery delivery in 30 minutes. Meanwhile, Uber is also launching an on-demand delivery service in Latin America and Canada. Asda trial Asda is launching a ...
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Carrefour France marketplace sees low-key launch
Carrefour France has launched an online marketplace for third party vendors to sell products via its main carrefour.fr portal. Sellers will be subject to continuous evaluation in order to meet the Marketplac...
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Mercadona pursues sale and leaseback on 27 stores
While Mercadona owns majority of the store properties it operates, but has decided to enhance its liquidity by putting up 36 assets in March 2020 for sale. The Spanish supermarket giant is now in talks ...
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German retailers to pass VAT cut on to shoppers
Germany’s federal government has decided to lower VAT as part of a post-pandemic economic stimulus package. Leading retailers Aldi Nord and Süd, Lidl, Kaufland, Edeka and Rewe and other operators have all an...
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French Shoppers Embracing Convenience, E-Commerce, Kantar Says
French shoppers are embracing convenience shopping as well as e-commerce during the coronavirus crisis, new data from Kantar has showed. According to data fro the period from 23 March to 19 April (P4), c...
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Corona pandemic pushes mobile scanning forward
The Covid-19 pandemic increases the demand for contactless shopping and for self-scanning. That is why British supermarket chain Asda is rolling out its mobile self-scanning system 'Scan & Go Mobile' to ...
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