Welcome to the March-April issue of Grocery Trader. New research from Philip Morris Limited (PML), the UK and Ireland affiliate of Philip Morris International (PMI), reveals that almost 90% of retailers are regularly asked by customers if they stock illicit nicotine products, demonstrating widespread demand for illicit products in communities across the UK. According to the nationwide survey of 200 UK convenience store managers, more than two thirds (68%) are asked for illicit nicotine products – vapes or cigarettes – two-to-six times per week.
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Aldi is set to create more than 1,100 new store roles across the UK this year as it prepares to invest more than £370 million to open around 40 new stores. Britain’s cheapest supermarket, which already operates more than 1,080 stores is hiring for a wide range of store positions. This includes both full-time and part-time positions such as Store Assistants and Cleaners, all the way up to Store Managers, with salaries of up to £69,000.
More than 9,000 Sainsbury’s colleagues are set for a big financial boost as the grocer’s latest Sharesave plan matured, underlining the value of colleague ownership and long-term saving. The Sainsbury’s Sharesave 2022 plan matured on Sunday, 1st March 2026, giving colleagues the opportunity to buy Sainsbury’s shares at a discounted option price of £1.67 per share. The majority of colleagues participating in the plan are store and depot colleagues, who together hold around 15 million share options.
Conversations about vapes have for some time now been largely dominated by the issue of youth access. Irresponsible actors have exploited weak regulation and limited enforcement for the sake of profit – meaning youth access has rapidly become a major threat to the credibility of our industry, writes Susanna De Iesu, Commercial Director for UK & Ireland, BAT.
Food waste is one of the most costly problems in retail, but one of the least understood. At a time when retailers are operating on razor-thin margins and under sustained cost pressure, losses are being written-off as an inevitable cost of doing business and absorbed into already-constrained P&Ls. Businesses must wake up to the reality that waste is so much more than this; it is a business-critical commercial opportunity, writes Julie Vargas, VP/GM, Enterprise Intelligent Labels Growth, Avery Dennison.
Supermarkets are well equipped to understand and negotiate consumer behaviour thanks to the wealth of transactional data they gather. When consumers began to tighten their purse strings and restrict spending, grocers responded by spotlighting budget-friendly meals. While still early in the year, health and wellness have already been identified as priorities for the next 12 months, writes Katrina Bishop, Thought Leadership Activation Manager at NIQ.
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