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Sainsbury’s has committed to cutting its plastic packaging in half by 2025. This will include all branded foods packaging, Sainsbury’s brand food and packaging across all of the supermarket’s operations. Sainsbury’s uses nearly 120,000 tonnes of plastic packaging per year, but the new programme will involve switching to alternative materials, using lighter-weight plastics...

AO has signed a three-year partnership with Aldi to provide a delivery service for its Specialbuys ranges. AO will use its delivery experience to begin offering a similar service for Aldi customers ordering Specialbuys products.  AO’s logistics network covers 95% of the UK. A lot of Aldi’s Specialbuys are already available to...

Topshop and Topman suffered a loss of £498.5 million for 2018 , which is a drastic rise from the £15.6 million loss in 2017. Sales were also shown to have declined by 9% to £846.7 million. The figures show the true extent of Arcadia’s struggles, and they recently had to strike a rescue...

Zalando has launched a pilot scheme to test reusable packaging for delivering customer orders. The trial will last four weeks and will see 10,000 customers in Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark receiving their orders in reusable bags. According to Zalando, the pilot will test the extent to which reusable packaging can be...

Yoox Net-a-Porter has added strength to its management line-up with the appointment of five new senior executives. Pete Marsden has become the group’s chief technology officer, and will report into global chief operating officer Olivier Schaeffer.  Marsden will focus on mobile, personalisation and AI as the company looks to enrich the...

Homebase has launched its new-look campaign to support the sales of its autumn range of home décor and kitchens. The campaign is the first under the retailer’s new tagline, ‘Feel Good to be Home’. The campaign kicked off on September 11th, with the first 20-second advert being launched during ‘Emmerdale’. Lisa Tickle, head...

Foot Locker is set to relocate its Manchester Arndale store into a larger unit as part of plans to create a new experience-led shop. The retailer will move into a 14,000 square foot unit on Halle Mall following years of trading at its smaller Market Street store. The new store is set...

Morrisons has posted an increase in its pre-tax profit before exceptional items by 5.3% to £198 million in its first half. Group like-for-like sales excluding fuel edged up 0.2% in the six months to August 4th.   However, they fell by 1.9% in the retailers second quarter. Retails contribution to like-for-like sales...

Seven Dials Market has launched in London’s Seven Dials shopping district. It will feature 25 independent food businesses, as well as a bar and bookshop dedicated to al things food. The destination will serve breakfast through to dinner, it will include a cheese conveyor belt called Pick & Cheese, vegan street food...

Selfridges is set to be the first department store in the world to feature a permanent cinema.  It will open to the public at the end of November at its Oxford Street store. The cinema will be equipped with the latest state-of-the-art sound and vision technology, and will offer customers food...