All Sainsbury's articles – Page 22
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AnalysisData: The UK’s 15 most improved retailers for gender pay equality
Retail Week ranks the top-performing and most improved UK retailers for gender pay equality.
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OpinionOpinion: The CMA is on a power trip – and retail should be worried
Lord Andrew Tyrie hasn’t written his memoirs yet. If and when he does, he might want to consider borrowing the title: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
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AnalysisData: Grocery growth accelerates as shoppers stock up amid coronavirus fears
The latest grocery market share figures from Kantar show grocery spend in the 12 weeks to February 23 was up 0.7% year on year as consumers stocked up on essentials amid fears over coronavirus.
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AnalysisAnalysis: As supermarkets cut counters are they playing into discounters’ hands?
First Asda and now Tesco are cutting roles at bakeries and food counters, so are the days of such supermarket services numbered? Retail Week considers whether such changes will work or play into the discounters’ hands.
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NewsSainsbury’s, Frasers and Shoe Zone plead for business rates reform
The bosses of Sainsbury’s, Frasers Group and Shoe Zone have piled further pressure on new Chancellor Rishi Sunak to reform the business rates system.
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NewsGrocery market set to grow while big four lose share
The UK food and grocery market is set to grow 15% between 2019 and 2024, according to the latest research.
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AnalysisValentine’s Day: The retail marriages made in heaven
This Valentine’s Day, Retail Week looks at the retailers that have formed long-lasting unions be it through mergers, acquisitions or partnerships.
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GalleryStore gallery: Sainsbury’s opens first ‘food on the go’ store
Sainsbury’s has lifted the lid on its first ‘food on the go’ store at London’s Mansion House.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Compete or collaborate? Why Tesco, M&S and Harrods are joining forces with rivals
With the threat of Amazon looming over most in the sector, some retailers are doing away with long-standing rivalries in order to take on the online Goliath. But how should retailers decide when to compete and when to collaborate?
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NewsGrocery sales inch up boosted by Dry January and Veganuary
Supermarket sales growth for the first quarter of the year inched up, driven by Dry January and Veganuary product sales.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Is the CMA killing retail?
Asda-Sainsbury’s, JD Sports-Footasylum and potentially Amazon-Deliveroo – the CMA has been taking a tough stance on retail M&A over the past two years. But is the watchdog’s clampdown on mergers actually hurting the industry?
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OpinionOpinion: Forget about the haters – retail’s right to go green
When retailers unveil great ambitions to set new standards in sustainability, it frequently leads to an outbreak of grumpy whataboutery.
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NewsFormer Gap boss joins Debenhams parent company board
The former global president of Gap has been appointed as a non-executive director of Celine Jersey Topco, the parent company of the Debenhams Group of operating companies.
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NewsSainsbury’s commits £1bn to meet net zero pledge
Sainsbury’s has committed to spending £1bn to meet its pledge to become a net zero business across its own operations by 2040.
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AnalysisAnalysis: Where next for Sainsbury’s under new boss Roberts?
Many predicted that Mike Coupe would depart Sainsbury’s in the wake of its failed bid to merge with Asda, and today he called time on his six years at the helm, passing the reins over to the supermarket’s retail and operations boss Simon Roberts.
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OpinionOpinion: Forget Asda – Coupe leaves a lasting legacy at Sainsbury’s
Once I made the mistake of telling Sainsbury’s boss Mike Coupe that I did most of my grocery shopping at Tesco.
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NewsSainsbury’s CEO Mike Coupe to retire as successor lined up
Sainsbury’s chief executive Mike Coupe will retire from his role later this year and will be succeeded by the grocer’s retail and operations director Simon Roberts.
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NewsSainsbury’s to axe hundreds of management roles
Sainsbury’s is to shed hundreds of jobs across its head office functions in a bid to slash costs and drive further synergies with the Argos business.
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NewsMarks & Spencer swoops on Sainsbury’s Argos for new retail chief
Marks & Spencer has poached one of Sainsbury’s Argos most senior executives to become stores director, Retail Week can reveal.
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AnalysisFrom shunning toys to value-led shopping – the trends that defined Christmas
It has been a festive trading period dubbed by the BRC as “the worst on record”. With this week bringing the departure of a retail boss from one business and a profit warning at another, it does have the markings of a bleak Christmas.