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Kroger’s Dallas Division has launched Kroger Restaurant Supply, which claims to offer competitive wholesale pricing, opportunities to order items by the case or unit and delivery seven days per week. The service, announced on April 5 2022, is open to regional restaurants, bakeries and catering companies. Customers can benefit from free next-day delivery on all orders of $250 or more, when...

Carrefour Bio is to use blockchain technology with its products from April 2022, making it the first retailer to use blockchain with its own-brand organic products. Behind this move is consumers’ demand for transparency regarding the provenance of organic products and the methods used to produce them. Blockchain technology stores data securely and in a tamperproof manner. The first produ...

Availability issues Operational labour and HGV driver shortages continue to disrupt food supply chains. Food and consumer goods businesses have been hit hard by recruitment and retention challenges. This is resulting in lower order fulfilment levels than normal, meaning there is an impact on availability of some food and groceries. The government has committed to a package of support i...

Lidl, part of Schwarz Group and one of the largest retailers in the world, has set up its own container shipping company as it aims to reduce delivery delays and avoid high freight rates. According to registration information at the European Trademark Office, Lidl's new shipping company is called Tailwind Shipping Lines. Ensuring availability and managing increased volume Wolf Tiedemann,...

Aligned to its sustainability strategy and commitment to environmental protection, Carrefour Qatar announced the launch of its first aquaponic farm. It is located in its City Center Mall retail store, located in Doha’s West Bay area. The initiative is in partnership with Agrico Qatar, a Qatari-owned and managed leader in sustainable agriculture. Aquaponics is a form of agriculture whereby f...

Tesco will increase the price it pays for all its fresh milk by nearly 20% amid high levels of on-farm inflation. Price rise reflects increasing costs of feed, fuel and fertiliser The 520 British dairy farmers that make up Tesco’s Sustainable Dairy Group (TSDG) will be paid 40.84 pence a litre in May versus 34.16 pence a litre paid in March. An interim rise will also take place in April. ...

Gopuff – a US-based rapid delivery platform – and UK retailer, Morrisons have launched a multi-year partnership to bring own-brand and branded products to Gopuff's platform. The partnership means customers across the UK can order thousands of Morrisons food and grocery items for delivery in as little as 15-20 minutes. A major tie-up having recently arrived in the UK The partnership follows ...

Lidl GB is set to create more than 1,200 new warehouse jobs by the end of 2025. The new roles will be based at Lidl’s new distribution centre (DC) in Luton, which will be the largest DC Lidl operates across its global operations when it opens in 2023. Construction of the 1.2 million sq. ft sites began last year. The site is due to serve store locations around London and the surrounding areas a...

Instacart, the leading on-demand fulfilment and delivery company in North America, has consolidated existing and new services under a new Instacart platform. We look at what this means for the business and its retail customers as it transforms to be a retail enablement organisation. Built a leadership position in on-demand delivery This is the first major move from Fidji Simo, who joined th...

Sainsbury’s has partnered with Flexible Power Systems to design, develop and deploy a smart charging system for its electric refrigerated trailer. The trailers, first trialed last year and now integrated into Sainsbury’s’ lorry fleet, run their chiller units from batteries rather than diesel generators. The smart charging system will enable Sainsbury’s to optimise charging times and take ad...