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Tesco Sustainable Dairy Group members, a select group of farmers who supply the grocer with milk, have been told that, as of the beginning of November, they will be receiving an extra 1.28 pence per litre. This works out at just over a penny extra for every pint. Many dairy farmers have been complaining that [...]

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Although they promised to cut down the time shoppers spent waiting to pay for their groceries, new research shows that self service check-outs may actually be adding to the time customers spent at the country’s supermarket tills. Trade publication, The Grocer, conducted research into average waiting times and found that, compared to 2008, when the [...]

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Asda’s chief executive, Andy Clarke, has said he will not retract the comments he made about the quality of the supermarket’s food, according to a spokesman. Making his first speech as the new Asda boss, Mr Clarke said he did not believe the grocer had been giving the quality of its produce the attention it [...]

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In an effort to speed up the time it takes to get a prescription filled Sainsbury’s has introduced two drug vending machines to stores in West Sussex. The pilot scheme means that customers now no longer need to talk to a pharmacist when they go to collect their medicine. They simply insert their prescriptions into [...]

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Sainsbury’s has said that it will uphold the ban on a woman from every store in the country after she was arrested on suspicion of using another customer’s loyalty card to purchase her groceries. Claiming that she was given the wrong Nectar card by a cashier while on a previous outing to the supermarket, Christine [...]

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UK employers are gearing up to the start of the World Cup in South Africa by offering employees flexible working initiatives, so that they will get to see some of the matches without having to call in sick or skip work. Among the big names offering their employees that chance to see the matches is [...]

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A number of British supermarkets have come under attack by a consumer watchdog for selling ready meals with classic British names, such as Cumberland sausages, liver and Bacon and Lancashire hotpot, even though none of the ingredients appear to be British. BBC One’s Watchdog programme revealed to viewers that a number of supermarkets are misleading customers with [...]

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A recent survey conducted by consumer watchdog, Which?, has exposed the claims of a number of UK supermarkets that they are doing all they can to cut back on the amount of plastic bags, as perhaps untrue. In conducting their survey, Which? went online and ordered 29 of the same items from supermarket giants Asda, [...]

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A lack of health and safety training means that some butchers working at the supermarket giant Sainsbury’s are unable to use knives. Forty-one-year-old business man John Wilkinson was stunned when he walked into the Penylan, Cardiff branch of Sainsbury’s and asked his butcher to de-bone a joint of lamb, to which he said ‘no’. The [...]

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Scientists at supermarket giant Sainsburys have come up with an alternative to using pesticides to control moth larvae which can devastate fruit crops. Instead of using chemicals to kill the Codling moths which lay their larvae on fruit trees, they are turning them gay by spraying the larvae with pheromones. Pesticides used to be a [...]

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