Quarter of supermarket milk deliveries by UK’s biggest dairy supplier unable to get through because of driver shortage By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 16:50 EDT, 30 July 2021 | Updated: 16:50 EDT, 30 July 2021 Up to a quarter of supermarket milk deliveries by the UK’s biggest dairy supplier have been unable … Read more
Royal Mail is plotting to axe Saturday letter deliveries and signed-for parcels in bid to modernise and push through cost savings The Royal Mail’s new UK boss is looking at changes as part of a six-month review It comes as postal service is looking to modernise and making big cost savings Decision to scrap Saturday … Read more
Tens of thousands of Ocado grocery deliveries are cancelled – after a blaze caused by robots colliding at a depot More than 100 firefighters spent hours battling blaze in Erith, south London The building, on a 36-acre site, is serviced by around 3,500 robots packing food It is third blaze at an Ocado warehouse in … Read more
Shoppers living near a select number of Asda stores can now get their groceries delivered in one hour, as part of the supermarket’s new ‘super speedy service.’ Customers living within a three-mile radius of the Halifax, Rotherham and Poole Asda stores can order up to 70 items from the grocer’s online shop for ‘Express Delivery’ … Read more
Asda tries out unattended food deliveries in bid to maintain shoppers’ appetite for grocery drop-offs once they return to the office The supermarket is installing delivery boxes outside of customers’ homes Food inside can stay fresh for up to 4 hours and is securely locked Leaving deliveries unattended could make grocery shopping more convenient as … Read more
The trial of six extinction rebellion protestors accused of disrupting the distribution of national newspapers was thrown into disruption this morning when one of the defendants glued his hand to a table in the courtroom. The case had just been called on and the judge had taken her seat when accused, Liam Norton, got to … Read more
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen has insisted that AstraZeneca must ‘catch-up’ on its deliveries to the Continent before it is allowed to export vaccines to the UK. EU leaders stopped short of voting for an explicit export ban amid bitter squabbling over their dose allocations at a crunch virtual summit hosted by Brussels … Read more
Ursula von der Leyen has threatened to halt exports of AstraZeneca vaccines if the EU does not receive its deliveries first, in a worsening row over delayed shipments that has caused international tensions. The EU chief told the British-Swedish pharmaceutical company it has to come through on deliveries to the bloc. In an interview with … Read more
For consumers, it’s one of the body blows of Brexit. Since Britain left the EU, tens of thousands of shoppers have been hit by a raft of unexpected extra charges when buying goods from websites based in Europe. In some cases, there have been demands of nearly a half as much again on top of … Read more
With its jumbled, tightly packed shelves and seemingly inexhaustible range of products, Kwik Stop Express is the sort of shop that had become an essential part of daily life in British towns and cities. Owner Shahzid Razaq spent 20 years building up the business, rising at five in the morning seven days a week and … Read more