UK supermarkets have been told to start stockpiling supplies of vital foods and other necessities amid panic-buying fears ahead of a potential No Deal Brexit in less than three weeks’ time. There were huge queues in Kent outside Dover yesterday, following similar tailbacks at Calais on Friday, as retailers and suppliers began ‘stock-building’ amid rising … Read more
Supermarkets set for £12bn Xmas bonanza: Families to spend £387m every day By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:53 GMT, 8 December 2020 | Updated: 22:05 GMT, 8 December 2020 Supermarkets are set for a £12billion Christmas shopping bonanza as families stuck at home splash out record sums on food and drink. The … Read more
Tesco and Asda ‘charge more for almost identical food being sold by Lidl and Aldi but under different labels’ Tesco is charging £2.65 (£3.40 per 100g) for its Finest Parma Ham, for example Lidl has priced its Deluxe Prosciutto at £1.99 (£2.21 per 100g) – a saving of more than a third, according to C4 … Read more
Several supermarkets have agreed to waive the business rates holiday and hand over the money saved. Here, we take a look at what it means: – What are business rates? Business rates are paid by every commercial property in the UK. They are similar to council tax for residential properties and are collected by local authorities … Read more
Four supermarkets still resisting calls to hand back pandemic tax breaks despite seeing boom in sales By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 4 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 4 December 2020 Four supermarkets are still resisting widespread calls to hand back pandemic tax breaks despite seeing a boom in sales. … Read more
Several supermarkets have agreed to waive the business rates holiday and hand over the money saved. Here, we take a look at what it means: – What are business rates? Business rates are paid by every commercial property in the UK. They are similar to council tax for residential properties and are collected by local authorities … Read more
As three more supermarkets hand back business rates relief, it’s a £1.8bn windfall for the taxman Sainsbury’s, Asda, Aldi and discounter B&M followed Tesco and Morrisons They paid back the windfall after their sales boomed in lockdown Ministers say the action is a ‘real model of good, healthy capitalism’ By Tom Witherow Financial Correspondent For The … Read more
Supermarkets are the most common ‘exposure setting’ for Covid as official data shows 20% of patients had visited one in the week before testing positive Public Health England said supermarkets were linked to the most positive cases They examined data on check-ins using the NHS app to 16 different locations But experts today said the … Read more
Supermarkets issue urgent recall for Aptamil multigrain banana and berry 7+ months cereal because it may contain pieces of plastic that could harm babies The Aptamil baby cereal was found to contain bits of plastic packaging inside it Baby product is sold at Tesco , Sainsbury’s, Aldi and Waitrose, as well as Boots Nutricia cereal … Read more
Shoppers are grappling with yet more coronavirus measures today as supermarkets bring in safety marshals and traffic light systems as a new lockdown begins. As the four-week winter lockdown sweeps across England, supermarkets have implemented swingeing safety measures as they remain the last vestiges open for customers – with non-essential retail forced to close. Asda is trialling … Read more