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ainsbury’s continues to open new stores nationwide. A convenience format store has opened in Marble Arch replacing its previous Marble Arch Local which closed in 2016.
Aylesbury has gained a second supermarket, Aylesbury Gatehouse which, along with the existing Aylesbury Town Centre store, is aiming serve all the needs of the local community. Sainsbury’s plans become Net
Zero in its own operations by 2035 and the technology within the new Aylesbury Gatehouse supermarket has been designed and installed to support this.
A new 53,000 sqft flagship store has been opened in Colwick. Along with the new convenience store on Nottingham Clumber Street, which opened in October, Sainsbury’s Colwick is part of a multimillion- pound programme of investments the retailer is making in Nottinghamshire, which also includes the refurbishment of some of its existing Sainsbury’s stores nearby.
The technology within the new supermarket will enable it to operate as one of Sainsbury’s most sustainable stores. South Croydon is also benifitting from a convenience store on Brighton Road. The 2,640 sq. ft store was transformed from a vacant unit into a fully fitted-out Sainsbury’s Local in just five weeks.
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sda’s Q3 trading report like- for-like sales (excluding fuel) declined by 0.7% compared
to the same period in 2020. However, like-for-like sales
remain resilient on a two-year basis with growth of 2.0% compared to Q3 2019.
The same period last year saw sales boosted by the ongoing social distancing restrictions, which resulted in more meals being consumed at home.
Food sales were up by 3.4% compared with Q3 2019. The lockdown trend of customers treating themselves to premium own-label products continued and Asda has added more than 200 new products to its ‘Extra Special’ range this year in response. Demand for online groceries softened slightly during the quarter, with sales down by 2.7% on the same period last year as more customers returned to shopping in store. However, online sales remain significantly higher than pre- pandemic levels, up by 80% on the same period.
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idl GB has announced plans to create 4,000 new jobs across the country with a new store target of 1,100 stores by the end of 2025. Lidl remains on track to reach 1,000 stores by the end of 2023. The additional 100 new stores will be across England, Scotland and Wales and will feature solar panels and electric vehicle charging points. Sites of particular interest include town centres, retail parks and metropolitan locations. Christian Härtnagel, Lidl GB CEO commented: “Our new store target today marks a significant investment for the business. We remain committed to our bricks and mortar
strategy and maintaining our store opening pace; roughly a store a week for the next four years.”
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mazon and Co-op today announced that for the first time, customers in
Nottingham and surrounding areas including Beeston, Bingham, and Lowdham are able to do their full Co-op grocery shop on Amazon.
co.uk and enjoy same-day delivery included with Prime.
The move follows the launch of Co-op on Amazon in Glasgow in September, followed by Bournemouth in October. The service will continue to be expanded to more Prime members across the UK in the coming months.
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&S Food has delivered strong sales growth of 10.4% on 2019/20 in its
latest trading report. Sales grew 16.9% after adjusting for the adverse impact on the hospitality and franchise travel businesses which are still progressively recovering from the impacts of Covid consumer behaviour. This imbalance was also reflected in the geographical pattern of recovery: compared with two years ago M&S Food sales on retail parks were up 23.3%, while Food sales in city centre stores were down 18.4%. The transformation of the M&S Food range over the last few years, previously obscured by pandemic distortions, has delivered an improvement in customer perception, strong core sales growth and market share gains.
Product development has been refocussed on the mainstream,
improving choice in core product categories such as pasta, ready meals, bakery and wine, as well as seasonal family products and frozen ranges. Perception for quality and in critical areas such as farm standards is now market leading. With that, there has been a sharp improvement in customer value perception and recent market share increased 20bps on 2019/20 with strong growth in the categories that are important to family shoppers such as produce, meat and grocery. Average basket size on everyday shopping trips remains c.30% higher than pre-pandemic levels, even as the frequency of trips is recovering. Food-on-the-move and hospitality businesses continued to be impacted in the period. However, since schools and some offices returned to more normal working patterns, sales in city centre, high street and franchise - air and some rail locations - have also improved. Compared to 2019/20 levels, food-on-the-move sales were down 11.4% in September and higher margin hospitality sales were down 34.9%, improving on first half performance.
Our Food strategy is to shift to larger stores in the evolving ‘renewal’ innovation format which offer greater choice in core categories in a more operationally efficient way. The format has now been implemented in 29 new and renewed stores including 14 since our full year results. Sales in renewal stores opened in the current year have increased 15.7% in the period and 19.0% in September, compared to 2019/20.
6 December 2021 •
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