Sainsbury's news

Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons are the latest UK retailers to launch their Christmas adverts. These highlight the joys of celebrating Christmas with family and friends, which was a challenge in 2020. Tesco Tesco has taken a fun approach with its Christmas advert, spotlighting a woman with a ‘Nothing’s Stopping Us’ attitude this Christmas. It offers a humorous perspective to the ch...

Sainsbury’s is set to open its own checkout free trial store using Amazon technology. The store will be located opposite Sainsbury’s HQ, apparently in the same unit where Sainsbury’s previously operated a checkout free store trial in 2019. Over three months customers could use the Smart ShopScan, Pay & Go app to make purchases using only their smartphone, however the trial was ended after six ...

Morrisons and Sainsburys have announced they will cut their net zero target by five years to 2035. Meanwhile, Co-op has rebranded six stores to reflect the importance of climate change and the purpose of the COP26 event and, finally, Tesco is planning to halve the environmental impact of the average UK basket size. Morrisons sets new goal for its net zero target… Morrisons is planning to be n...

Sainsbury’s has delivered a strong first half results and given fresh guidance about how it is delivering against its food first strategy. Results summary for 28 weeks to 18 September 2021 H1 grocery sales +0.8% on 2020, +9.1% on 2019, with Sainsbury’s increased focus on value, innovation and service delivering grocery volume market share switching from Big Four competitors. Sustained el...

Sainsbury’s CEO spotlights how the retailer is helping shoppers prepare for Christmas In a letter to its shoppers, Sainsbury’s chief executive, Simon Roberts has highlighted how the retailer is aiming to help them prepare for Christmas. The letter and our own ShopperVista research underline the expectations that shoppers will start planning for the festivities earlier in 2021 than previous...

In its first Nectar Deep Dive Event, Sainsbury’s has shared new insights around operates how Nectar is increasingly shifting from being a reward scheme for loyal shoppers to a personalised reward scheme that incentivises purchases while also providing valuable data for suppliers. Nectar in a nutshell There are two elements to Nectar – the Nectar B2C loyalty scheme and Nectar 360 which pr...

Responding to the new opportunities in the UK’s post-pandemic ‘from-home’ workforce, Sainsbury’s has launched a new lunchtime sub-category focus in the chilled aisle of some 300 of its stores.   Curating a range of for-one products, the retailer has brought together a selection of branded retail lines from key on-trend high street food-to-go players (Leon, Itsu and Wasabi) along with an eponymous...

Sainsbury’s has announced the relaunch and expansion of its same day and one-hour rapid delivery as it evolves its online offer to cater for changing shopper preferences. Relaunch of same day delivery service Sainsbury’s will introduce same day delivery and collection services to 100 more stores by the end of October, so that customers ordering before midday can receive a delivery after 5pm...

Sainsbury’s has launched lower prices for Nectar app users across a tailored selection of products. Key facts about My Nectar Prices Nectar app customers using SmartShop will be able to access discounts of up to 30% on around 10 product lines personalised to them. Both branded and private label products will be included in the offer The list will be updated regularly to align with ...

With a challenging summer in 2020 and fewer COVID-19 restrictions in 2021, retailers and brands in the UK have looked to capture the pent-up demand for summer products and activities and to inspire shoppers. In our report we explore six key trends we spotted this summer in the UK. Below we highlight three of these: 1. Innovating key categories: cocktail inspiration Sainsbury's offere...