Apr 16, 2020 | Coronavirus, News, Retailing
GMB, the union for food producers, has called for Government to convene an urgent meeting with the big six retailers and the Food and Drink Federation after a major Tesco, Sainsbury and Marks and Spencer supplier admitted social distancing was impossible in its...
Apr 14, 2020 | Coronavirus, News
Severn & Wye Smokery in Gloucestershire has launched a telephone and online supermarket and nationwide delivery service in order to keep supplying its retail customers during the lockdown period of the Covid-19 crisis. Richard Cook of Severn & Wye Smokery,...
Apr 9, 2020 | Coronavirus, News, Retailing
Lancashire police has arrested two men after they licked their hands and contaminated food in a Sainsbury’s in Morecambe. The incident took place on the 4th April at the supermarket on Lancaster Road, where the men had been caught licking their hands and wiping them...
Apr 9, 2020 | Coronavirus, News, Retailing
McDonald’s sales fell by only 3.4% in the first three months of the year, despite closing all of its restaurants in the UK. The fast food chain’s international business was hit due to closures in the UK, France, Italy and Spain, but 99% of restaurants in the US...
Apr 9, 2020 | Coronavirus, News, Retailing
Tesco said it is “incurring significant additional costs” as the company tries to deal with the impact of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement released alongside its preliminary results for the financial year ending 29th February 2020, the supermarket said...
Apr 9, 2020 | Coronavirus, Dairy, News
National Farmers Union (NFU) president Minette Batters has called on Defra secretary, George Eustice, to a crisis meeting and to take immediate steps to ensure the sustainability of the dairy sector. The survival of many British dairy farming businesses hit by the...
