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he UK retail industry has pledged to reduce emissions from
refrigeration gases by 80% by 2020, relative to floor space, following the launch of a new report on 29 January. A Better Retailing Climate: Driving Resource Efficiency was unveiled by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) at an event held at the House of Commons. Retailers will begin phasing out HFC refrigerants by 2015 and replace them with non- HFC refrigerants, in line with the Consumer Goods Forum Commitment.
The report shows that 25 signatories, who represent half of UK retail by turnover, have agreed a range of ambitious targets for reducing their impact on the environment, having beaten the previous aims set across all areas. These include a collective pledge to reduce absolute carbon emissions by 25% by 2020, putting the industry well on course to meet the 80% overall target set by the UK Climate Change Bill. Sainsbury’s has revealed that the number of its Local stores has now exceeded its supermarkets for the first time. The retailer’s convenience business grew 18% during its last financial quarter. The latest Local store at Balsall Common in Coventry, is Sainsbury’s 594th and has created nearly 30 new jobs for local people.
Mike Coupe, Sainsbury’s group commercial director, said: “We know the trend among customers is to shop little and often as this helps them stick to their budget and cut down on food waste. Our Local stores, with their convenient locations and emphasis on fresh food,
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something very much part of our heritage, are in a fantastic position to help customers do this.”
Morrisons has started its first online food deliveries. The supermarket’s distinctive yellow vans began delivering groceries to homes across the Midlands in January. The company says there has been strong interest in its dot-com offering, with many thousands of customers registering their interest in January and importing their shopping lists from all the major grocers. Morrisons expects to be covering 50% of the country by the beginning of 2015. Tesco customers on the Isle of Lewis are receiving grocery home deliveries for the first time following the launch of its dot-com service in January. The
service will be provided from the Tesco in the island’s capital Stornoway and will create 29 new jobs for local people. The retailer is looking at developing a Click & Collect grocery service on the Isle of Skye later this year. Waitrose says that it expects to create up to 2,000 new jobs through new shops during 2014. The retailer is opening 26 shops across the UK, including up to 15 new supermarkets and 11 new little Waitrose convenience shops.
Together, the new shops will add nearly 350,000sqft of selling space to the retailer’s estate. Waitrose has opened more than 100 branches of its 302 store estate over the last five years. Shops already confirmed include supermarkets in Teignmouth, Edenbridge,
Keynsham, Locks Heath, Sherborne, Hove, Leek, Swindon, Hereford, Egham, Malmesbury and Chester. The retailer will also add new convenience shops in East Putney and West Hampstead. More locations will be
confirmed throughout this year. The Co-operative Food is rolling out lightweight, compostable carrier bags, which can be used to carry shopping home and then be re-used as food waste caddy liners, to around 400 of its food stores. It is the first time a large-scale food retailer has given shoppers over such a wide area the option of alternative carrier bags with a specific second use. The bags are more than strong enough to carry shopping, and at just 6p each they work out at around half the price of food waste caddy liners bought on a roll. Together with their food waste contents, the bags can be turned into compost, which in turn can be used to grow fruit and vegetables.
The Co-operative Food’s environment manager, Iain Ferguson, said: “Every compostable carrier bag used is one less conventional plastic shopping bag in circulation. We believe they will have a significant impact upon the number of plastic bags which end up in landfill sites every year.”
Last year, The Co-operative Food used 64% fewer bags in its stores than in 2006, when industry-wide reduction targets were first set. Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King is stepping down in July after 10 years at the helm. Mike Coupe, currently group commercial director, will take over from him in the summer.
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